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Bribery, while useful, isn't always an effective means of obtaining a large user base, Microsoft has discovered. Microsoft announced today that it will retire the Bing cas...

Google Gives In To European Regulators

Before long, certain European regulators will get to see exactly what sort of information Google amassed when the company's Street View cars collected data sent over private WiF...

What the OExchange Protocol Means for Site Owners

This week a new open protocol to simplify sharing, called OExchange was introduced. It was released by Clearspring Technologies, with support from Google, Microsoft, and LinkedI...

AOL CEO Discusses Google, Search Deals

AOL's current search deal with Google will expire in six and a half months, and although it looks like AOL's CEO, Tim Armstrong, would prefer to stick with the search giant, his...

Security Firms Respond to “Google Dropping Windows” Report

Rumor has it that Google is not using Windows internally anymore, and security companies don't necessarily find this to be a great solution if security is the concern. More than...

Yahoo Names Raymie Stata CTO

Yahoo named Raymie Stata as its new CTO today. Stata is a 5+ year veteran of Yahoo! and formerly its chief architect, and will be taking on the CTO role to oversee all of the co...

LinkedIn Hires Ex-Google Exec As Canada Head

Anyone who considered LinkedIn's physical expansion into Canada an odd or ill-thought-out move may want to think again. LinkedIn has been able to secure Jonathan Lister, t...

Google Checkout Savings Available Again

The Dow didn't crash again today (it closed up 226 points, in fact), but the economy still isn't in fantastic shape, and it doesn't harm anyone to save a few bucks even when it...

USPTO Lets Google Host 10 TB of Patent Info

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has entered an agreement with Google, which will see Google host...

Add a Background Photo to Google’s Home Page

It looks like Google is trying to attract some of the Bing users who use the search engine for the background images on its homepage. Google has now...

Google and Bing Launch Health Map Applications

Today both Google and Bing released some health-related map applications. These releases coincide with the Institute of Medicine and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Serv...

Report: Google Acquires Invite Media

The difficulties Google encountered while trying to acquire AdMob apparently didn't cause the company to give up on a related purchase. A new report indicates that Google...

Simply Hired Launches Job Search On Facebook

Job search engine Simply Hired has launched a personalized job search using Facebook. Users who login with Facebook are able to find jobs based on their current o...

Amazon Rolls Out Wheels Store

Amazon.com said today it has launched its Wheels Store featuring over 10,000 wheels and nearly 4 million automotive parts and accessories. Amazon's Wheels Store...

Chrome OS Release Set For “Late Fall”

Anyone who's interested in using Google's first operating system shouldn't have to wait too much longer to give it a try. Earlier today, at Computex Tapei, a vice presiden...

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