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Archive for the ‘Live.com / MSN’ Category

May 5th, 2008

Microsoft Withrew its $47.5 Billion Bid over Yahoo!

It is all over the place.   Microsoft Withrew its bid over yahoo.   Yahoo’s share price is  around $22 at premarket trading.  According to news.com,  yahoo is willing to negotiate at $37 but Microsoft didn’t bite.
I think there would be a lot of  mad Yahoo shareholders.
Check these out for more
eweek.com 
reuters.com
pcworld
So what do you think?    Did  […]

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March 3rd, 2008

Microsoft Goes Head to Head with Google for Web Based Applications

Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) used to dominate the world of applications. Later on, Google, the search engine giant took on Microsoft with web based applications called Google Apps. Now, Microsoft is taking it all back with its Microsoft Office Live Workspace.
Apart from MS Office applications, Microsoft also included web based Exchange. […]

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February 17th, 2008

AOL Joins the Game

AOL now joins the game. According to the Press Association, whose website is hosted in google, AOL’s advisers met with representatives from Yahoo to see if a deal is workable.
There is no definite terms available yet as of now.
One thing for sure is that Yahoo has choices apart from the one given by […]

By Noel -- 0 comments

February 11th, 2008

Yahoo Rejects Microsoft $44.6 Billion Offer

Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) has just rejected the $44.6 Billion offer made by Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT). Yahoo wants at least $40 a share.
From Bloomberg’s website it seems like Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is proposing a partnership with Yahoo.
“Google CEO Eric Schmidt contacted Yang to suggest a partnership, the New York Times reported Feb. […]

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February 3rd, 2008

Microsoft + Yahoo vs Google

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) gave a $44.6 billion cash and stock bid for Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO). This was the big news this weekend.
Among the 3 biggest search engines, Microsoft’s MSN.com/Live.com was the third. So far it simply can’t make a scratch to regain some of it’s […]

By Noel -- 1 comment

August 14th, 2007

Yahoo Delivers the Most Satisfaction

In a recent survey held by University of Michigan’s American Customer Satisfaction Index, or ACSI, on customer satisfaction Yahoo came on top with a score of 79 while Google scored only 78 in a surver that asked people about to report on Web search services, portals, online news and information.
Yahoo’s score shows a 4 point […]

By Gilad -- 0 comments

August 13th, 2007

Engines Comment on their Own Privacy

Last week CNET News.com sent 8 questions to each search engine in an attempt to rank them based on their own observation of themselves. This is in an attempt to help people understand the different policies used by each engine on specific issues. The engines included AOL, Ask.com, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo and the questions […]

By Gilad -- 0 comments

August 3rd, 2007

Google Analytics Keeps Dissapointing

While Microsoft is developing the “next generation of analytics”, Google’s competing product keeps letting its users down. The recent outage, which lasted two days straight, was the fourth outage in the month of July alone.
Ever since Google Analytics became free, more and more webmasters have been counting on it as their sole stats provider and […]

By Gilad -- 1 comment

July 30th, 2007

New MSN Features Identifies Faces and More

A while back, Google introduced its face detection capabilities, and now MSN decided to show a bit of its capabilities which include face, portrait and black&white recognition.
According to the official post, MSN introduced three new features that help people find faces, portraits and black and white images. We tested the different filters on a […]

By Gilad -- 0 comments

July 27th, 2007

Digg Says Bye to Google, Picks Microsoft Instead

Earlier this week Digg decided to give Google the boot and instead hire a company who they labeled as “young and willing to take risks” (you mean our Microsoft?)…
I am not sure what it is but I am feeling a good vibe from Microsoft these days. They improve, innovate, invent, they are everything that Google […]

By Gilad -- 1 comment

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