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Nokia Selects Microsoft OS
11th February 2011
Nokia has just announced a new partnership with Microsoft. The world’s most popular mobile handset manufacturer will use the Microsoft Windows Phone OS as the main operating system for their smartphones. More »
Digital Commerce In The USA In 2010
9th February 2011
A report from comScore indicates that the e-commerce industry recovered well in 2010. The total spend on e-commerce in the U.S.A. was $227.6billion during the course of last year. More »
Google Accuses Microsoft Of Search Results Plagiarism
2nd February 2011
Google has publicly claimed that the Microsoft search engine, Bing, is copying Google’s search results. More »
EU Launches Probe Into Alleged Google Abuses
30th November 2010
Following complaints from other search organizations the European Union has launched an antitrust probe against search giant, Google. More »
Microsoft And Yahoo! Search Allies In UK
5th November 2010
The Microsoft and Yahoo! Search alliance which has taken off in the U.S. and Canada is now preparing to make its way over to Europe. More »
Bing Discusses the Future of Mapping
28th October 2010
Microsoft hosted an event in London yesterday to discuss the future for Bing maps with a panel of industry experts and users. John Craske from AccuraCast reports on the event. More »
Google v Bing – Kings Of Social Search?
21st October 2010
Microsoft engineers teamed up with Facebook developers, once again to make Bing search results more social. This new social search service was announced just a week age. Since then, it could only be a matter of time before Google did something similar. Predictably, Google has just introduced social enhancements to their search service. More »
Microsoft Struggles To Gain In Mobile Search
16th September 2010
Although Microsoft is doing quite well for itself in the desktop search market, they are still struggling to improve their position in the mobile search market. More »
Google And Facebook Get Ridiculously High Brand Exposure
27th August 2010
Recently released reports by various online analytic sites have shown that both Google and Facebook get extremely high rates of exposure in the U.K. More »
Yahoo! Search Now Powered By Bing
26th August 2010
The Microsoft – Yahoo! Search deal has finally reached the stage of implementation. More »
Microsoft, Yahoo! Allow Users To Choose Ads
16th August 2010
Internet users often have to wait through pre-roll ads or look past overlay ads when they want to watch online video. This can be quite irritating to some users. Microsoft and Yahoo! are reportedly thinking of ways to make this less of an irritation. More »
Earnings Reports Reveal Rebound In U.S. Advertising
10th August 2010
Reports of the quarterly earnings of various companies during the second quarter of 2010 have recently been published. These reports indicate an overall recovery in ad-generated revenue in most of the Internet, media and advertising companies. More »
Yahoo! Testing Bing Integration
6th August 2010
Yahoo! and Microsoft had struck a deal for a search and advertising partnership last July. The integration of the two search engines has finally started last month. More »
Yahoo! Japan Chooses Google
4th August 2010
Last week Yahoo! Japan confirmed that Google will be their local partner for search and ads. The announcement was made by the CEO of Yahoo! Japan, Masahiro Inoue. More »
Social Media Sites Not Regarded Highly
26th July 2010
Foresee Results and the American Customer Satisfaction Index, have recently conducted a study to find out how customers in the U.S. feel about various social media sites. More »
Yahoo! Focus On Mobile Content
5th July 2010
While Google and Microsoft have been trying hard to dominate the mobile market by launching their own handsets, their competitor Yahoo! has refrained from treading down that path. More »
AOL Shopping For New Search Partner
9th June 2010
Rumours have been doing the rounds regarding a possible deal between AOL and Microsoft. AOL’s Chief Executive, Tim Armstrong, has said that the company is in talks for a new search deal. Their current deal with Google is due to end shortly. More »
Bing For Business Launches In U.K.
18th May 2010
Bing is finally trying to catch up with Google Maps and the Google Local Business Centre by making it slightly easier for businesses in the U.K. to secure placement on Bing Maps. More »
Bing Socialises Shopping Search
10th May 2010
After having made it possible for users to share their opinions on search results relating to news and entertainment, Bing is now encouraging users to make the online shopping process more social. More »
Microsoft and Facebook Launch Docs.com
26th April 2010
Facebook and Microsoft’s partnership is delivering new, innovative applications that few expected to see from the collaboration. The largest social network has been working with the software giant to create a service that will allow users to share their documents online. At the F8 conference held by Facebook on the 21st of April, they announced the launch of Docs.com More »
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