Google thinks antitrust regulators would approve an advertising partnership with Yahoo because the deal isn’t exclusive and isn’t a merger, Reuters reported Friday.
Google sees the deals as comparable to its partnership with Time Warner’s AOL and IAC/InterActiveCorp, both of which use Google’s technology to …
Google has broadened the number of online applications that people can use offline, adding spreadsheets and presentations to the mix.
However, unlike with word-processing documents, spreadsheets and presentations can only be viewed, not edited, according to a post by marketing manager Andrew Chang on the Google Docs blog Friday. That’…
Nvidia’s hostility toward Intel is on a high boil these days. In its latest dig against the central processing unit (CPU) and the company that makes the lion’s share of CPUs, an Nvidia VP said in a private missive that the CPU is dead and it has “run …
AT&T on Friday denied using forged reset packets to interfere with network connections of Vuze file-sharing platform users, as Comcast has been accused of doing with BitTorrent traffic.
The statement came in response to a report released earlier this week (PDF) by Vuze, which offers a BitTorrent-based client …
Here’s a number to chew on as Yahoo finishes out its earnings week and faces a Saturday deadline to formally negotiate a merger with Microsoft: 6 percent.
That’s how far its shares have fallen since it reported its better-than-expected earnings after the markets closed on Tuesday. Compare that …
As the Saturday deadline looms for Yahoo to give Microsoft an answer on the latter’s takeover bid, it’s time for those of us writing about this to admit something: This is getting boring.
I mean “boring” in that Village of the Damned or Groundhog Day way, in which …
A CNET reader provided this screen shot of the stock-price display glitch.
Some users of the customizable My Yahoo portal were unable to see prices for their lists of company stocks for a few days, but the Internet company said the problem has been fixed.
The problem afflicted only a …
The Bush administration on Friday again singled out China, Russia, and seven other countries for allegedly not doing enough to stop piracy and counterfeiting on their turf.
In its annual report (PDF), the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative named nine trading partners to its “priority” watch list and …
SAN FRANCISCO–It’s no secret that spam now pollutes Web sites as well as e-mail in-boxes. But Web site operators can take actions to combat it, a Google expert in the area said Friday.
Matt Cutts, Google's lead engineer for combating Web spam, at the Web 2.0
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(Credit: Metallica.com)Lars Ulrich, the combustible drummer of heavy-metal band Metallica and long-time critic of file sharing, has apparently changed some of his views towards the Internet and digital music.
In an interview with Rolling Stone last week, Ulrich said he and his bandmates have only one more album
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