Tag Archives for Microsoft
Yahoo! Stock Sliding up in value
Yahoo managed to meet their third quarter earnings targets.
Yahoo, which is both fielding offers from potential buyers and searching for a new chief executive, posted slight decreases in net revenue and profit, however, these declines were not unexpected. … READ THE REST
Google Under Investigation for Business Tactics
Google is being investigated by US regulatory authorities after it was accused of increasing by 50 TIMES (multiplying costs by 50!) the advertising costs from its competitor Microsoft. The investigation conducted by the FTC was launched following the software … READ THE REST
Here comes Windows 8
Microsoft Corp donated 5,000 Samsung tablet computers running a test version of Windows 8 at their annual developer conference hoping to make a splash with its new operating system. Powered by Intel Corp i5 chips, the devices are the first … READ THE REST
Microsoft’s Tulalip
Microsoft might be working on the launch of a new social networking service to compete with Google Plus and Facebook. Reportedly, Microsoft accidentally published the splash to the domain name Socl.com. Called Tulalip, the project advertised itself in … READ THE REST
Google Gets 1 Billion Unique Hits in May
Google is now the world’s first Internet company to collect over 1 billion unique visitors in a single month on its websites.
During the month of May, Google-owned websites, including its search engine, email service, and video-sharing site gathered … READ THE REST
Microsoft, Skype, It’s Final
The Federal Trade Commission is permitting Microsoft Corporation to proceed with its largest deal ever, that is an $8.5 billion bid for web chat and call service Skype.
The FTC announced on Friday it finished its review of the … READ THE REST
Goodbye IE6
WordPress has joined the growing list of sites dropping support for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 web browser. The recently upgraded WordPress.com has a handful of new features, and an admin page no longer supporting IE 6.
Users that … READ THE REST
Blackberry Chooses Bing over Google
Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft has announced a new partnership between Bing and BlackBerry. From now on, Bing will be the default search and map service featured on BlackBerry devices.
Meanwhile, Google has launched a Mac version of … READ THE REST
What’s Microsoft Up To These Days
Microsoft Corporation, the world’s largest software maker, will be providing financial “support” to four cloud-computing startups in India. The support will come in the form of “grants” and will amount to something like $100,000 in sum total.
Microsoft and … READ THE REST
Intel To Get Strong ARMed
Facebook Attempts to Bing Up Google
Microsoft Tag Is Now Available
Dubbed by Microsoft – “barcodes-on-steroids,” the technology lets users … READ THE REST
