News tagged with internet portals
Yahoo! stock climbs on report of Alibaba sale
Yahoo! stock price climbed Friday on renewed rumors that it was close to a multibillion-dollar deal to sell half of its stake in Alibaba.com back to the Chinese online shopping portal.
May 18, 2012 |
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China web giants vow to fight 'rumours'
Three of China's top Internet portals have pledged to work with the government to banish online rumours, as jittery authorities crack down on the web following widespread rumours of a coup.
Apr 10, 2012 |
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Web portal Sina posts $336 million quarterly loss
(AP) -- Sina Corp., a popular Chinese web portal operator, sank to a loss in the latest quarter due to writedowns on investments in two online businesses but revenues and microblog traffic were up.
Nov 09, 2011 |
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China web giant Tencent buys into film maker
Chinese Internet giant Tencent has bought a 4.6 percent stake in mainland film and TV producer Huayi Brothers Media to look at possible ways to combine film and new media, the firms said Tuesday.
May 10, 2011 |
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Facebook to launch China site with Baidu: report
Facebook has signed an agreement with Chinese search engine giant Baidu to set up a new social networking site in China, a leading web portal reported Monday.
Apr 11, 2011 |
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Russia's top portal to list on NASDAQ: report
Russia's top Internet portal Yandex intends to raise up to $1 billion (740 million euros) through an initial public offering on New York's NASDAQ stock exchange, the Vedomosti business daily reported Monday.
Feb 21, 2011 |
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Father of Great Firewall forced to remove microblog
The man widely seen as the architect of China's vast Internet censorship system known as the "Great Firewall" has had to take down his microblog after a storm of criticism by web users.
Dec 22, 2010 |
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AOL acquires Web video company 5min Media
AOL, the once high-flying Internet portal which is seeking to make a comeback as a content company, announced Tuesday it has acquired Web video syndication firm 5min Media.
Sep 28, 2010 |
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States ride broadband wave
Colorado is one of a number of states where state and local governments are prohibited by law from directly providing broadband service, for example, free municipal wireless connections. So a recommendation in the Federal ...
Jul 01, 2010 |
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French panel: Tax Google to fund the arts
(AP) -- How to help prop up the ailing music industry? Tax Google, suggests a new report commissioned by the French government.
Jan 07, 2010 |
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Chinese agencies fight for control of Web game
(AP) -- Chinese regulators are fighting over the right to oversee "World of Warcraft," a popular online game, in a bizarre battle that has thrust bureaucratic rivalry for control of the Internet into the open.
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Microsoft search engine makes steady progress
Bing, Microsoft's new search engine, is making steady if unspectacular progress in its bid to wrest a bigger share of the lucrative US search and advertising market away from Google.
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Yahoo! extends reach into Arab world with Maktoob buy
US Internet giant Yahoo! said Tuesday it had signed a deal to purchase popular Jordan-based web portal Maktoob, expanding its reach to millions of consumers across the Arab world.
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Google users loyal: comScore
The planned Microsoft-Yahoo! online search tie-up has promise but must overcome people's fierce loyalty to market king Google, industry tracker comScore said Friday.
Aug 15, 2009 |
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Time Warner beats 2Q estimates; outlook steady
(AP) -- Time Warner Inc.'s second-quarter earnings beat Wall Street forecasts Wednesday despite a declining advertising market, as its Turner cable networks held up better than expected and "The Hangover" ...
Jul 29, 2009 |
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