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Adobe to buy Omniture for $1.8 billion

Adobe said on Tuesday that it has reached a deal to acquire web analytics firm Omniture for $1.8 billion, or $21.50 per share. Read more »

Bing grabs a bigger slice of search market

Web analytics firm StatCounter released analysis on Monday stating that Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, slightly increased the software maker's share of the US search market in July. It now claims 9.41 percent, up from 8.23 percent in June. Read more »

Microsoft and Yahoo agree search deal

Microsoft and Yahoo have agreed to merge their search technology and advertising operations, with Microsoft's Bing engine powering Yahoo's search and Yahoo handling worldwide search advertising for both companies. Read more »

Google tech tweak reveals plan for faster search

It was the kind of detail that only experts in web traffic analysis could love, but a technical change Google is making turns out to reveal something a lot more people care about: faster search results. Read more »

Yahoo relaunches IndexTools as Web Analytics

Yahoo on Wednesday announced the rebranding of IndexTools as Yahoo Web Analytics (beta). Currently an enterprise product, the move brings it closer to being a consumer and small business tool, although it's not available to everyone just yet. Read more »

Write your name in the Firefox code

The Mozilla Foundation is offering to "immortalise" people's names in the code of Firefox, if they manage to persuade a friend to download its Web browser before September 15. Read more »

Bring some 'bling' to your Web site

Want your Web site to rank higher? Make sure search engines can link to all your pages, use specific keywords when tagging content, promote popular products prominently and use software to track visitor traffic. Read more »

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Maximising IIS logging

Multiple options for logging user access activity are available when you manage Microsoft IIS Web servers. Here are several logging options. Read more »

Finetuning Web performance

How do you know if your Web site is working properly, attracting the right audience and giving them what they need? Read more »

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Are your Web apps ready for the next-gen browser war?

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Webkit, Firefox, and Internet Explorer are all scheduled to update their browsers in 2008. Are you ready for Web dev test fest 08? Read more »

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  • Chris Duckett IE9's H.264 vote killed Ogg

    In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

  • Staff Google launches Apps Marketplace

    Google launches and app store, while Mozilla plans to re-write its open-source license. More of this week's news in the Roundup. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Staff Microsoft showcases new NUIs

    TechFest, Microsoft's internal even took place this week with researchers showcasing some new interfaces the company is working on. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

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