News tagged with search business

FTC hires outside lawyer to steer Google probe

(AP) -- The Federal Trade Commission has hired a prominent trial lawyer to oversee its broad investigation into Google's business practices, signaling the agency is troubled by what it has discovered so far in its year-old ...

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created Apr 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Oracle, Google gird for trial on Android dispute

Oracle and Google are digging in their heels as they prepare for an upcoming trial.

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created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

American Express, Twitter team up on retail deals

(AP) -- American Express card holders can use the Twitter online messaging service to get exclusive discounts and other deals from more than a dozen retailers under a partnership announced Tuesday.

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created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Social-networking rivals offer workaround for Google social search

Google's social-networking rivals have apparently teamed up to offer users a tool that allows them to avoid the integration of Google's core search business and Google+.

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created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google+ opens up to businesses, brands

Google opened its social network Google+ to businesses and brands on Monday as it seeks to expand the audience for its rival to Facebook.

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created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Google insists newspapers not losing out to Internet

Internet search engine Google insisted on Friday it was not stealing business from the print media even if it has become an increasingly important source of news on the Web.

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created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

IAC 3Q revenue up, profit down on year-ago boost

(AP) -- IAC/InterActiveCorp, the Internet company run by billionaire Barry Diller, saw a big jump in revenue in the latest quarter because of improvements in online advertising and an expansion in the number of people looking ...

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created Oct 27, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Twitter gets more business friendly

Twitter is testing a way to let businesses better use the popular microblogging service in what could be a future money-making opportunity.

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created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

News Corp, Microsoft hold talks on Google: report

Microsoft has held talks with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp over a possible plan for the software giant to pay the media company to remove its news websites from Google, a report said Monday.

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created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 1.7 / 5 (7) | comments 5

All eyes on Murdoch as newspapers ponder digital future

Is Rupert Murdoch bluffing? Making a bold high-stakes gamble that will save the troubled newspaper industry? Or pursuing a pipe dream that can only end in failure?

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created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Twitter's becoming an important tool for job seekers and employers

As the Internet's microblogging superhero Twitter continues to balloon with 40 million users worldwide and countless apps like Twhirl and TweetDeck, the Twittersphere has been overrun lately with refugees from the real world's ...

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created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google opens the hood on search for Wall Street

Google Inc. sought to demonstrate for Wall Street analysts on Wednesday why it continues to pour money into an established Internet search business that already accounts for a majority of its sales every quarter.

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created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

What's to become of Microsoft's answer to the iPod?

Microsoft Corp.'s quarterly earnings report last week featured a number of grim statistics, including a relatively overlooked, albeit steep decline related to its Zune portable media player_potentially adding more uncertainty ...

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created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

StumbleUpon's founders buy service back from eBay

(AP) -- Two founders of Web content recommendation service StumbleUpon said Monday they bought the company back from online auction house eBay Inc., just two years after eBay purchased the startup for $75 million.

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created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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