News tagged with portal
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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Galaxy DNA-analysis software is now available 'in the cloud'
Galaxy -- an open-source, web-based platform for data-intensive biomedical and genetic research -- is now available as a "cloud computing" resource. A team of researchers including Anton Nekrutenko, an associate ...
Nov 08, 2011 |
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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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Online news portals get credibility boost from trusted sources
People who read news on the web tend to trust the gate even if there is no gatekeeper, according to Penn State researchers.
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Jan 31, 2012 |
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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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Amazon tests waters in India
US online retail giant Amazon has made its first foray into India with launch of a shopping website, Junglee.com, as it tests the waters for a possible full entry into the nation's e-commerce market. ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Checking criminal records via phone proves popular
Matthew Haindfield's little app is quite revealing. A few minutes with Docket in Your Pocket brought me up to date with the legal scrapes of various acquaintances and left my own sordid record of traffic offenses staring ...
Oct 27, 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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Pope may go online to launch Vatican news portal
(AP) -- The Vatican, whose communications problems are no secret, is taking a leap into the world of new media with the launch next week of a news information portal that Pope Benedict XVI himself may put ...
Jun 27, 2011 |
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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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China's Tencent buys Google-backed social networking firm
Mainland Internet company Tencent Holdings has bought Google-backed Chinese social networking firm Comsenz for more than 60 million dollars, the companies and a media report said.
Aug 24, 2010 |
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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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Microsoft rolls out new MSN site design
(AP) -- Microsoft is rolling out the new design for its MSN Web portal in the U.S.
Mar 09, 2010 |
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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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