Microsoft Bing Joins Forces With Facebook
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Bing have created an odd joint venture to help get the Bing search engine more use–at Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) expense. Bing results will be married with related posts from user…
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LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) would probably be doing better this morning if the markets were indicated better. A report from Barron’s over the weekend called “The Little Chip Maker That Could” has the call…
One in Five Americans Does Not Use the Internet
New research from Pew shows that about 20% of Americans do not use the Internet. It usually has been assumed that these Americans are poor or old enough that Internet adoption was not part of…
AOL Sells Patents To Microsoft For $1.1 Billion, Will Return Some To Shareholders
The promise that AOL’s (NYSE: AOL) patents have value was quickly realized as the firm sold Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) $1.1 billion worth of patents. The patents numbered about 800. The news should shut up…
Google To Launch Android Tablet–WSJ
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) will launch its own Android tablet shortly. The hardware will be made by partners which includes Samsung According to The Wall Street Journal Google Inc undaunted by a short-lived attempt to…
As Broadband Surges in Russia and China, Governments Lose
The number of people with broadband connections in the United States, Korea, Canada and the United Kingdom increased very little last year. Too many people there already have the service for there to be much…
AudioCodes Dives on Lowered Outlook (AUDC)
Network gear maker AudioCodes Ltd. (NASDAQ: AUDC) lowered its first-quarter and full-year revenue and profit outlook this morning. From the press release: is now projecting revenues for the first quarter of 2012 to be…
PC Chip Sales Rose 13.2% in 2011 (INTC, AMD)
Sales of microprocessors for personal computers rose 13.2% year-over-year in 2011 according to data released today by International Data Corp. (IDC). Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) grabbed 80.1% of global market share and Advanced Micro…
Google To Transform Search Methods?
Google may alter and improve, in its opinion, its search engine technology, The Wall Street Journal reports. In part the move will counter improving search engine technology used by Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Microsoft. Consumers often are…
Americans Worry Over Search Engine Privacy
Surveys of Americans have frequently said they do not want the owners of websites to “spy” on these to determine their habits and use those to target ads. A series of research from The Wall Street…
Online Privacy: Consumers 1, Web Companies 0
Several initiatives were set in the past two days to protect consumers against private data collected by providers of browsers, apps and websites that keep personal information. Such information is used to target advertising and…
Groupon and Facebook — What Do People Really Do Online?
Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) and Facebook are in a battle with many investors about the value of their audiences. Do Groupon’s visitors still use it regularly to buy merchandise? Do Facebook’s members ever look at advertising…
Facebook and Amazon Audience Gain as Portals Falter
Yahoo.comNew Comscore data shows the extent to which Facebook and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) have become internet destinations while portals Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) MSN lose ground. The social network and e-commerce…
Google Comes to Mozilla’s Aid, but That May End
Is Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) just a good citizen, or is there a reason it supports nonprofit operation Mozilla, which operates the Firefox browser? Google has a browser of its own — Chrome. And Chrome…
Google Chrome Passes Internet Explorer As Top Browser
Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) Internet Explorer has been the top browser in the world since the company bought Netscape nearly 15 years ago. Mozilla’s Firefox gains modest share over the last several years. But, it is…