Microsoft News
Microsoft And Yahoo! Search Alliance Creeps Forward In UK
16th January 2012
The Microsoft – Yahoo! search alliance has been functional in the U.S. for some time, and they now intend to expand ad testing to Europe as well. More »
Microsoft Launches New Social Network
19th December 2011
Microsoft has just rolled out a new social networking site that experiments with the concept of social search and specifically targets students. More »
Tablet Sales To Increase 5x
30th September 2011
A study conducted recently by Juniper Research has found that the sales of tablet devices is set to go up by leaps and bounds. More »
Into The Mind Of The Asian Man
21st September 2011
Microsoft recently conducted a study in conjunction with MEC to study the behaviour of the pre-family man in the Asia-Pacific region, in order to ascertain how they respond to different digital devices. More »
Mobile Advertising In Asia
16th September 2011
Microsoft Asia General Manager, Jason Scott, recently spoke in Cannes regarding the available and upcoming mobile opportunities in Asia. More »
Microsoft Windows 8 Targets Desktop And Tablet
12th September 2011
Microsoft is all set to launch their new operating system, known as Windows 8. Industry analysts predict that the operating system could bring Microsoft back to the forefront of technology. More »
Indians Stop Wasting Time Online
9th August 2011
It has been found that unlike in the past, Indians are now spending less time surfing the net in a meaningless or aimless manner. Instead, most of their online activities are now well thought out or pre-planned. More »
Are Microsoft And Apple Using Patents To Attack Android?
8th August 2011
A recent blog post from Google claims that Microsoft, Apple and Oracle have teamed up in a bid to make it difficult or expensive for users to access the Android open operating system. More »
Bing Testing Ads Within Organic Search Results
25th July 2011
Bing is testing a new format of advertising inter-mingled with their organic search results. This could have serious implications in the search market across the board. More »
Google Peaks UK Market Share
18th July 2011
The latest report released by Hitwise reveals that Google Search has crossed all its previous records as far as market share in the U.K. is concerned. More »
Google Plus Has Finally Been Launched
29th June 2011
There has been speculation for quite some time about whether or not Google would launch a new full-fledged social network. The answer to that question is now definitely “yes”. More »
Facebook Overtakes Microsoft UK
28th June 2011
There seems to be a lot of ambivalence on the status of Facebook. Different analysts have shown different sides to the same story. However, data from UKOM/Nielsen has revealed that Facebook has overtaken Microsoft in the U.K. More »
Skype Comes To TV Through Comcast
15th June 2011
Skype has reached an agreement with U.S. cable TV provider, Comcast to enable users to make phone calls via their TV sets. More »
Yahoo! Is Huge, Yet, Very Few Love It
14th June 2011
A lot of press coverage and online buzz is continuously generated surrounding the growth of sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google. In the resulting melee, Yahoo! seems to have been forgotten. More »
Gender Greatly Influences Content Of Tweets
13th June 2011
Until recently, no one had studied how the gender of a user determined the subject of their tweets on the popular social network, Twitter. More »
Microsoft Buys Skype For $8.5 Billion
11th May 2011
The popular VoIP service Skype has just been bought over by Internet giant Microsoft. The deal has been finalised for a staggering $8.5 billion. More »
Google Is No Longer The Most Valuable Brand
9th May 2011
Research company Millward Brown has released its list of the 100 most valuable brands in the world and according to them Apple is now more valuable than Google. More »
Creation, Communication Unite As Web Behaviour Evolves
20th April 2011
The Internet continues to grow at a rapid rate and this has increased the opportunities available to marketers and advertisers. Users continue to evolve, though, presenting new challenges at each stage of this growth. More »
Microsoft Is Google’s Biggest Competitor In Online Video
23rd March 2011
A report released by comScore has shown that in the month of February, there have been a lot of changes in the rankings of the top ten of online video sites in the USA. More »
Bing Hopes To Reinvent Mobile App Market
24th February 2011
Having made a minor dent in the search market, Microsoft now hopes to be able to gain a larger share in the mobile search market. In order to do this they have decided to change the way people use the mobile Internet by refining the number of apps that are used by consumers.
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