WASHINGTON–As advocacy groups bristle at online advertisers’ increasingly sophisticated targeting techniques, top privacy lawyers at Google and AOL on Thursday backed “opt-out” technology as a way to give Internet surfers more say in the process–although they admitted it’s far from perfect.
At the moment, a group called the Network …
TripIt, which organizes personal travel information, expects to announce Thursday that it has raised $5.1 million in a series B round of financing from travel behemoth Sabre Holdings and German investment group European Founders Fund.
Seed investor O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, which had previously put $1 million into the …
Looking to take on more demanding customers, Amazon Web Services on Thursday rolled out two paid-support plans that give customers access to its engineers to resolve glitches.
The company said it will offer two levels of support–gold and silver–for a fixed annual fee or a percentage of customers’ total usage …
Microsoft may find it has some leeway in increasing its Yahoo bid by 10 percent without spooking its investors, one Wall Street analyst notes in a research report Thursday.
Brent Thill, an analyst at Citigroup Global Markets, surmises in his research report that Microsoft’s share price already reflects a …
Google is typically tight-lipped about it the inner workings of its search business, but there are a few nuggets worth looking at in a Popular Mechanics interview with Udi Manber, the Google vice president who oversees search quality. Among them: Google rejiggered its search algorithm 450 times last year.
The …
Casey Coleman, chief information officer for the U.S. General Services Administration, said in a speech this week that the GSA heavily relies on open source to drive down costs, increase flexibility of IT dollars, and reduce risk.
The GSA, by the way, is no small fry. It manages more …
Red Hat likes Linux on the desktop, but it also likes making money.
The company’s desktop software unit on Wednesday released an update on its plans, saying it will focus its efforts on specific markets but not face off against Microsoft in the consumer market.
The Linux Desktop team …
Like some of the luckiest people in high tech, John Buckman made a mint on his first company and now dabbles in passion projects.
But one of his latest companies may prove he’s more than just lucky, at least if you buy the Silicon Valley adage: Strike it rich …
Microsoft’s attempt to acquire Yahoo is expensive, but there could be a significant other expense for the software maker: retention bonuses.
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer publicly discussed these payments to keep Yahoo employees from leaving, saying that “we intend to offer significant retention packages to your engineers, key …
Yahoo is closer to outsourcing its core ad search business to Google,
after favorable testing of Google’s advertisements on its search pages,
according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
The WSJ cited people familiar with the matter who said that a deal between Yahoo and Google is increasingly likely
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