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When do we declare Google a monopoly?

I did a double take recently after listening to Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell acknowledge that his company was ready to lose even more money in online services in the near term, if that's what it takes to catch Google. Read more »

FAQ: Yahoo-Google ad deal's antitrust scrutiny

Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny. Read more »

Microsoft safe from Google in apps: Gartner

Microsoft shouldn't be worried about Google's move into the enterprise applications space — but Microsoft is shaping up to be more of a challenger to Google's online ads business, according to Gartner. Read more »

Microsoft makes $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo

Microsoft went public on Friday with a US$44.6 billion cash-and-stock bid to acquire Yahoo. Read more »

Will Microsoft's acquisition of Yahoo backfire?

Microsoft's US$44.6bn bid to buy Yahoo could backfire if not executed properly, according to analysts -- but the phenomenal price may be worth paying to fend off the challenge from Google. Read more »

Google to network YouTube with Adsense

Google is finally rolling out what many expected it would do with its YouTube acquisition -- select video clips will be shown across the AdSense network, along with advertising designed to increase the company's share of a lucrative market. Read more »

Web news feed syncs up with ads

Moreover Technologies has introduced a free, advertising-supported service that lets Web surfers set up a personalised collection of headlines from news outlets around the Web. Read more »

Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory Read more »

Google raising newspaper morgues from the dead

Google is making searchable, digital copies of old newspapers available online through partnerships with its publishers, the company said on Monday. Read more »

Yahoo, Adobe to put adverts in PDF documents

Yahoo and Adobe are set to launch a free service to help publishers make money on their Adobe PDF content by automatically inserting advertisements into the PDFs from Yahoo's network of online advertisers. Read more »

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The truth behind Ballmer's revision of history

While speaking in Moscow, Microsoft CEO and Yahoo suitor Steve Ballmer said, "Yahoo was never the strategy we were pursuing, it was a way to accelerate our online advertising business... We will spend money on some acquisitions. You can do a whole lot of things with $50 billion." Read more »

Train your team to gain long-term benefits

Before you go outside for expertise, you should consider the benefits of spending the money you had budgeted for a consultant on training your in-house staff to handle not only the project at hand but also others down the road. Read more »

Mozilla chairman unfazed by Google Chrome

Things just got a lot more complicated for Mitchell Baker, the Mozilla Foundation's chairman and "chief lizard wrangler." Read more »

How start-ups can survive

Here we go again: Another boom, another bust. But we've learned something from the last time, haven't we? Read more »

Taking on Twitter with open source software

One service that seemed to come out of nowhere and get instant buy-in from influential digerati around the Web was Identica, an open source microblogging alternative from Montreal resident Evan Prodromou, who in 2003 had co-founded Wikitravel. Read more »

Google vs. Microsoft

At the 2008 Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, David Mitchell Smith, vice president and Gartner fellow gave a presentation titled "Google vs. Microsoft", discussing the seeming battle between the two companies. Read more »

Vista is sunk

It's not really a mid-life crisis, not really. But eighteen months after Vista appeared - and eighteen months before Windows 7 - Vista has bought a metaphoric red sports car and a new pair of tight jeans, and is getting ready to go on the pull. Read more »

Assessment uncovers a consultant's incompetence

When one firm orders a business assessment, this consulting firm discovers a troubling history. Here's how the consulting firm tracked down the problems, including an IT consultant's blatant disregard for good business practices. Read more »

Value-based approach to Web site design - Part 3

Steve Baty rounds up his guide to helping Web developers answer business owners' demand to show return on investment. Read more »

Q&A: Microsoft chairman Bill Gates

The world's richest man on web apps, ultramobile PCs, dirt cheap PCs and the 'G' word. Read more »

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2Vouch refers well

[blogs:bootstrappr] -- Melbourne-based Web start-up 2Vouch yesterday launched the first public beta of what it dubs its "social recruiting platform". Read more »

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