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Yahoo buying fantasy sports company Citizen Sports

2010-03-17T14:00:49Z

<div id="subtitle">Yahoo buying fantasy sports company started by blackjack card-counting expert</div><div><p>Yahoo is buying a fantasy sports company co-founded by an MIT graduate whose card-counting skills helped him win millions of dollars in blackjack and spawned a film and a best-selling book.</p><p&g...

TechBits package

2010-03-17T13:45:44Z

<div><p>Google Inc. is making two new versions of its Nexus One phone: one for AT&T Inc.'s network and one for Sprint Nextel Corp.'s.</p><p>The first U.S. version of the Nexus One, which Google is promoting as its own "super...

Yahoo! buys Citizen Sports

2010-03-17T12:17:52Z

<div><p>Yahoo! made a play for more sports fans on Wednesday with the purchase of Citizen Sports, a startup that makes sports-related applications for Facebook and Apple's iPhone.</p><p>Yahoo! announced the acquisition in a statement but did not disclose financial terms. Technology blog Bing search engine nabs larger share of US Web queries in February</div><div><p>Microsoft Corp.'s Bing search engine gained market share in the U.S. in February, according to research groups.</p><p>Microsoft has worked for years to improve its search te...

Consulting Web Hosting Evaluation

2010-03-16T01:29:22Z

In the business of web hosting, it is imperative to carry out an evaluation of a potential web host provider. In the time we are today every one is yearning to have a web of there own. A good means of generating income to many means having a good web site. So it is good to think about the web host provider that would be beneficial not just now but also in the nearest future. For every web host provider it is important to check their reviews for proper evaluation. These reviews have the experi...

Yahoo loses revenue chief to Web content start-up

2010-03-15T17:15:16Z

<div><p>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc's head of North American revenue and market development is leaving the company to join private online content start-up Demand Media, becoming the latest executive to depart the Web giant's ranks.</...

Twitter meshes into websites with @Anywhere

2010-03-15T15:15:36Z

<div><p>Twitter on Monday began letting its hot microblogging service be integrated into websites such as YouTube and Microsoft's Bing with a new "@Anywhere" feature.</p><p>"This is not an ad platform, it is an 'at' platform," Twitter co-founder Evan Williams ...

Improve Brain Fitness With 5 Fun Brain Games

2010-03-13T18:51:12Z

No one ever said you couldn't have fun while improving your brainpower. There are plenty of online resources to help improve brain fitness. Here are five that you might enjoy.<br><br>1. Strimko<br><br>This is a numbers logic puzzle, based on a well-known idea about Latin squares, first considered by the famous Swiss mathematician Leonard Euler back in the 18th century. All challenges presented to a game player...

Analyst downgrades Yahoo on search share concerns

2010-03-11T14:45:08Z

<div id="subtitle">Benchmark Co. analyst downgrades Yahoo, says competitors' share of search market climbing</div><div><p>A Benchmark Co. analyst downgraded share of Yahoo Inc. Thursday, noting issues like better-scaled competitors grabbing a bigger share of the search market and increasing competition in display advertising.</p><p>In a note to clien...

A decade later, lessons in the Nasdaq collapse

2010-03-10T08:47:04Z

<div><p>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Ten years ago today, before the dot-com bubble burst, the Nasdaq composite index hit a record 5,132.52 points -- a peak that the technology-heavy market shows no sign of scaling again any time soon.</p><p>Analysts and vent...

Child porn, ID theft drive record cyber crime in Japan

2010-03-04T09:16:51Z

<div><p>Internet crime in Japan jumped to a new record last year, led by ID theft and database attacks, child pornography posts and copyright violations, the national police agency said Thursday.</p><p>Police made arrests or took other action in 6,690 cases in 2009, up 5.8 percent from the previous year and the highest figure since data was first collated in 2000. The number has more than doubled in four years.</p><p>C...

Facebook CEO in no rush for IPO

2010-03-04T06:15:21Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is in no rush to take the popular social-networking site public, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.</p><p>The 25-year-old CEO told the Journal in an interview that the company would eventu...

Yahoo Bartz

2010-03-02T19:00:28Z

Yahoo co-founders Jerry Yang, left, and David Filo, right, smile during Yahoo's 15th birthday party at Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., Tuesday, March 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Yahoo CEO indicates turnaround could take years

2010-03-02T18:45:17Z

<div id="subtitle">Yahoo CEO says she will need more time to steer turnaround, just like Steve Jobs did at Apple</div><div><p>Yahoo Inc. CEO Carol Bartz says she hopes investors growing impatient for her to turn around the slumping Internet company remember how long it took for Steve Jobs to revive SUNNYVALE, California (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc CEO Carol Bartz said she does not believe Yahoo needs to discuss Google Inc's Internet search practices wi...

Microsoft CEO: Google merits regulatory scrutiny

2010-03-02T14:45:23Z

<div id="subtitle">Microsoft CEO hopes to keep regulatory heat on Google while trying to seize search share</div><div><p>Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer intends to keep the regulatory heat on Google as his company strives to lessen its rival's dominance of Internet search.</p><p...

Twitter tweets fly into Yahoo! search results

2010-02-24T06:15:46Z

<div><p>Yahoo! on Tuesday began weaving real-time Twitter messages into its search results and said tweets will migrate to its other online properties later this year.</p><p>"The information in one single tweet can travel light-years farther with this Yahoo! integration," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in a stat...

Yahoo yodels new tune by joining tweeting craze

2010-02-24T00:30:11Z

<div id="subtitle">Something new to yodel about: Yahoo to add tweets in latest attempt to plug into social media</div><div><p>Yahoo has something new to yodel about: tweets.</p><p>In its latest attempt to make its Web site more compelling, Yahoo Inc. is plugging its services into the rapidly growing craze of posting short messages, or "tweets," on Twitter<...

Yahoo partners with Twitter to boost social features

2010-02-23T20:15:16Z

<div><p>SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc plans to integrate Twitter into its collection of websites, as the company seeks to enhance the appeal of its online properties with popular social networking features.</p><p>The partnership will al...

Xerox sues Google, Yahoo over search patents

2010-02-23T12:15:50Z

<div><p>NEW YORK (Reuters) - Xerox Corp has sued Google Inc and Yahoo Inc, accusing them of infringing the document management company's patents related to Internet search.</p><p>In a lawsuit filed last Friday in the