Tag: Microsoft Corp
Yahoo’s board of directors, at a glance (AP)
September 8th, 2011, No Comments
Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo Inc. departure suggested the Board during his term of two years, bringing in four new directors to replace the five on the left. After his departure, the board of nine members. ___ Roy Bostock, a board member since 2003 and chairman since 2008. He was CEO of advertising agency D'Arcy [...]
Exclusive: Privacy lawsuit targets comScore (Reuters)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
SAN FRANCISCO/BOSTON (Reuters) – Online data tracking service comScore Inc siphons confidential information including passwords, credit card numbers and Social Security numbers from unsuspecting users, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed on behalf of two plaintiffs who downloaded comScore software, also says comScore scans all files on users' [...]
Google’s lobbying bill tops $2M for 1st time in 2Q (AP)
July 23rd, 2011, No Comments
SAN FRANCISCO – Google Inc.’s quarterly lobbying expenses surpassed $2 million for the first time as the U.S. government conducts a wide-ranging investigation into the Internet search leader’s business practices. The company spent $2.06 million trying to make its points with lawmakers and regulators during the April-June period, a 54 percent increase from $1.34 million [...]
Facebook launches video calls, group chat features (AP)
July 7th, 2011, No Comments
Mark Zuckerberg, Tony Bates NEW YORK – Fast on the heels of Google's launch of its newest social networking risk, Facebook said Wednesday that its 750 million users can now make video calls on the website. The function will be operated by the Internet telephony service Skype. Facebook also designed its new chat feature, so [...]
Facebook launches video calls, group chat features (AP)
July 7th, 2011, No Comments
Mark Zuckerberg, Tony Bates NEW YORK – Fast on the heels of Google's launch of its newest social networking risk, Facebook said Wednesday that its 750 million users can now make video calls on the website. The function will be operated by the Internet telephony service Skype. Facebook also designed its new chat feature, so [...]
Google’s Chrome tops 20 percent market share (Reuters)
July 2nd, 2011, No Comments
Seattle (Reuters) – Google Inc. browser, Chrome Web has captured more than 20 percent market share, while the long Microsoft Corp., a leading Internet Explorer has fallen below 50 percent, determined according to StatCounter Internet statistics. A seven-fold increase in usage in the last 12 months, a boost for Google, is trying its dominance in [...]
Hulu starts sales talks (Reuters)
July 2nd, 2011, No Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Online video site Hulu has begun preliminary sales conversations with a dozen potential buyers, including Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc., according to a source familiar with the situation. Hulu financial advisor, Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim Partners, set up meetings with potential buyers and the company has been doing the [...]
Microsoft puts Office in the cloud, confronts Google (Reuters)
June 28th, 2011, No Comments
A Nokia staff member shows off the new Nokia N9 phone on the sidelines of CommunicAsia 2011, an international communications and information technolog SEATTLE (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is making its biggest move into the mobile, Internet-accessible world of cloud computing this week, as it takes the wraps off a revamped online version of its [...]
Google investors fear long battle against feds (Reuters)
June 27th, 2011, No Comments
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Larry Page should put in a call to Bill Gates. Microsoft Corp's famous founder may know better than anyone else what the Google Inc chief executive would face if he engages in a protracted legal battle against U.S. antitrust regulators. Google said on Friday that the Federal Trade Commission has started [...]
Skype sued in for patent infringement (Reuters)
June 24th, 2011, No Comments
One page of the Skype Web site is seen in Singapore Wilmington, Delaware (Reuters) – Skype Internet Video Phone Company, Inc. is quoted in U.S. federal court Thursday for violating the patents of a Luxembourg company that has filed similar cases against Skype in Europe. The charge of the District of Delaware held a month [...]
