Google is one of the most popular web destination among internet users. The company continues to grow it’s online search market share and currently holds top spot. According to comScore’s August search engine rankings, Google increased it market share by 1.1% at the expense of Yahoo and Microsoft, which were down by 0.9 and 0.6 [...]

Yahoo’s stock has been tanking ever since the Yahoo , Microsoft and Carl Icahn fiasco ended. Jerry emerged a victor and kept his post as CEO of Yahoo but shareholders seemed to have gotten the rough end of the stick here.
Yahoo’s stock sank down further today, down almost 6% to $17.75, that’s near 5 year [...]

Ever since Google’s Chrome web browser has been released, I cannot stop and wonder why Google choose to do it’s own browser versus enhancing Firefox, especially when it has backed the Mozilla foundation for quite sometime. According to wikipedia, the Google , Mozilla partnership contributes about 85% of the revenues for the Mozilla foundation.
The foundation [...]

In an interesting piece of drama, Yahoo announced that Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., an independent voting intermediary that processes proxies on behalf of banks, brokers and institutions,had made an error in tabulating results from the August 1st shareholders meeting.
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc missed out on a truncation error in reporting share numbers that exceeded eight [...]

Microsoft updated the homepage of its online search Live.com on Wednesday. The new design features background images that will change frequently and the image will have “hotspots” on it - an area on the image that is highlighted and boxed when the user hovers the mouse over it. The hotspot highlighted box has basic information [...]

Microsoft and Facebook today announced plans to have Live Search on facebook pages at Facebook’s F8 Developer conference in San Francisco. Microsoft will provide search functionality and search advertising on Facebook and this ads to the existing relationship betweem the two companies. In 2006 the two signed an ad partnership for third-party ads to be [...]

Yahoo today announced it’s financial numbers for Q2 2008. The company had revenues of $1.798 billion and operating Income - $101 million. Revenues were up 6 percent increase compared to the same period in 2007. Net income for the second quarter of 2008 was $131 million or $0.09 per diluted share compared to $161 million [...]

comScore, Inc. has released monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In June 2008, Americans conducted 11.5 billion core searches, representing a 7-percent gain versus May. An interesting trend for June was a 0.7% gain in core search market share by Microsoft while Google lost 0.3%. Microsoft sites saw an increase in search [...]

Starting this fall, XBOX 360 will be able to stream movies from Netflix, according to an announcement made at E3 Media and Business summit in Los Angeles. Netflix has an impressive selection of over 10,000 movies ready to stream compared to XBOX Live’s half sized library of movies. This is definitely bad news for Roku [...]

Yahoo! Inc. today announced that it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and Carl Icahn for a complex restructuring of Yahoo! that would include the acquisition of Yahoo!’s search business by Microsoft. The new proposal required Yahoo to restructure the company, hand over to Microsoft, Yahoo!’s valuable search business and to Carl Icahn [...]

Let’s face it. Microsoft’s Live search is very disappointing and the deal with Yahoo is not coming along. So what could Microsoft do to lure web surfers to the live search? Well, the answer for Australian surfers is iPod. You heard it right! Microsoft is offering lucky web surfers Apple’s iPod as prizes for trying [...]

Orbitz.com will replace Expedia to serve travel deals on Microsoft’s MSN network. Orbitz already has a secondary relationship with Yahoo. This is a major blow to Expedia which was founded by Microsoft itself in 1996. Orbitz’s european unit, Ebookers.com will serve MSN UK. According to Orbitz, this change could bring up to 3.5 million visitors [...]

Microsoft will stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and computer makers starting Monday, June 30. The message from Microsoft is clear - it is time to make Vista the default operating system. The move has not gone un-protested as a group of computer users have started a “Save XP” petition posted on [...]

For the month of May, Google, Yahoo and Ask reported a green while Microsoft slipped further in red. Google search queries grew to 61.8 percent compared to 61.6 percentage for the month of May, according to search Internet monitoring research firm comScore.
Numbers for May:

Search Queries went up by 2 percent to 10.77 billion for the [...]

Microsoft Corp. has acquired Navic Networks, a provider of television advertising solutions. Navic’s technologies include campaign management tools that optimize the delivery and placement of targeted interactive television media and through Admira provide a unified ad network for targeting audiences across television advertising inventory.
“Television media represents the largest percentage of advertisers and agencies’ media budget [...]

Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has won a key distribution deal with HP, the world’s largest PC manufacturer, to install a Live Search-enabled toolbar on all HP consumer PCs planned to ship in the United States and Canada, beginning in January 2009. As part of this deal, the default search engine setting in the [...]

Through a blog post announcement, Satya Nadella Senior Vice president search, portal and advertising for Microsoft today informed that Live Search Books and Live Search Academic projects and their sites will be taken down next week. Books and scholarly publications will continue to be integrated into our Search results, but not through separate indexes.
Microsoft had [...]

According to Reuters, Microsoft is planning to open up its Microsoft Office to Open Document Format (ODF) sometime in 2009. Once complete, Microsoft will allow ODF document to be opened, edited and saved back in Microsoft Office directly without needing any other download, once Office 2007 Service Pack 2 has been applied.
“Microsoft is going to [...]