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Google Cultivates an Ecosystem

Google has ripped a page out of Salesforce.com’s handbook and has started up an AppExchange-like Solutions Marketplace site to cultivate third-party programs...

0 replies - 208 views - 04/12/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Google Plays the Platform Game

So Google has gone into the developer collection business. It’s a move akin to grinding up glass and stirring it into Microsoft’s supper. At least...

0 replies - 218 views - 04/11/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Now Yahoo’s Doing a Deal with AOL & Microsoft-News Corp Plot Joint Yahoo Bid: WSJ

Well, so far today Yahoo has managed to antagonize Microsoft into considering its options – like lowering its bid and girding for a hostile takeover – by...

0 replies - 274 views - 04/09/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Yahoo Plays Google Card; Microsoft Thunders ‘Unfair’

Yahoo says it’s going to try offloading some ad placement to Google, experimenting with using Google’s AdSense for Search service to deliver relevant...

0 replies - 346 views - 04/09/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Cookies May Crumble

The European Commission may crack down on Google, Yahoo, Microsoft et al and tell them they can’t keep personal search data longer than six months – and...

0 replies - 263 views - 04/09/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Google Moving Offline

Google is inching toward making Google Docs, its free, webby, Office-aspiring programs, work offline as well as on. It said Monday that it’s started...

0 replies - 500 views - 04/01/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Google’s Going Through Its First Rough Patch

Ya know, maybe it’s not the economic slowdown. Google CEO Eric Schmidt said January 31 that the company was feeling no pain from any macroeconomic...

0 replies - 461 views - 03/29/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Adobe Erects Photoshop on the Cloud

Adobe, which is not exactly unfamiliar with the concept of the free giveaway, has put out a public beta of a simple version of its popular Photoshop...

0 replies - 415 views - 03/27/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Finding Android a Home

Outbid by Verizon Wireless in the great American airwaves auction last week, Google plunked a six-page letter on Federal Communication Commission’s desk...

0 replies - 755 views - 03/26/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Google Swallows DoubleClick

 Google closed on its $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick this morning a couple of hours after the European Commission, as expected, waved the...

0 replies - 845 views - 03/11/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

EC To Rubber Stamp Google-DoubleClick Merger: Bloomberg

Bloomberg says the European Commission is going to wave the $3.1 billion Google-DoubleClick merger on through unconditionally next week, rejecting...

0 replies - 1107 views - 03/06/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Microsoft Broadens its SaaS Push

Microsoft, if nothing else, became a problem today for Yahoo’s $350 million Zimbra acquisition and Google’s rudimentary Sites contribution to the advance...

0 replies - 674 views - 03/03/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Google Giant Has Feet of Clay

Google’s stock dropped 7% this morning – down into the $450s – after comScore sprung the lever on the trapdoor under its feet and reported that US...

0 replies - 704 views - 02/26/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

Yahoo Remains Undecided

Yahoo has yet to move off the dime after a board meeting today reportedly by telephone in which it reviewed its options in the face of Microsoft’s hostile...

0 replies - 254 views - 02/08/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News

How Utterly Eric!

Having sat on the board since it was started 10 years ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt is now going to chair the New America Foundation, a well-funded, supposedly...

0 replies - 327 views - 02/08/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News