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Yahoo Sheds Another Executive

This time a change in the corner office ranks at Yahoo comes from Europe, where their managing director of search will bolt in favor of becoming a consultant.

GM Launches Social Media Newsroom in Europe

When you think of General Motors and social media, you tend to think of the FastLane Blog and GM vice chairman and corporate blogger-in-chief, Bob Lutz.

Yahoo Eats Up Attention From The Onion

It could be an act of misdirection - “here, watch the funny man while we fire you one by one!” - but things nonetheless took a lighthearted turn at Yahoo when Peter Koechley, Managing Editor of The Onion, came to visit.

Europe Still Looking For An Answer To Google

While America's busy celebrating Labor Day (mmm, ribs), Europe will be hard at work farming a Google competitor.

Google, BMW Enhance European Nav Systems

Europeans (and to some extent, the Japanese) get all the coolest car stuff.  The latest example of this involves a deal between BMW and Google; German BMW owners will benefit from a new in-car Google Local Search service, and a sort of precursor feature (previously available just in Germany) has now spread throughout Europe.

Property Search Site Gets Bigger, Better

In the market for an Irish castle?  Or perhaps a Spanish villa?  Properazzi wants to help, and as the site has just declared itself the world’s largest property search engine, it’s likely in a good position to do so.

Yahoo Creates Canarope

Never mind that, at their closest tips, Canada and Europe are over 1,500 miles apart; in Yahoo’s mind, they’re pretty much one and the same.

Google LatLong Looks at New York, Europe

It’s Friday, and odds are that you wish it was Saturday.  Or that you weren’t at work - it usually amounts to the same thing.  And although the powers of time travel and transportation are beyond me, there are some Google-approved maps that focus on faraway places.

Accoona Heads To Wall Street, Plans IPO

The Accoona search engine first launched in 2004 with a proprietary artificial intelligence technology backing its query engine.

Baidu's Net Profit Up 140%

Business is booming for Baidu - the Chinese search engine has reported its second-quarter revenue and net profit, and both figures have doubled (and then some) since last year.  Unlike Google’s earnings, this beats analysts’ forecasts; Baidu’s stock price shot up as a result.