'Microsoft' News

Brandz Top 100, a list of the world’s 100 most valuable brands, has recently been compiled for 2009 by Millward Brown a leading research company, which is a subsidiary of the WPP group. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft has recently launched a new social web application called Vine that will first be beta tested in Seattle. Critics liken the service to a combination of Twitter and Facebook. Read the rest of this entry »

Growth in mobile Internet access and the number of users perform search operations on their mobile phones has prompted dotMobi and Gomez Inc. to create the world’s first Mobile Web Benchmark Series, to rank the leading mobile sites with regards to their efficiency for customer operations. Read the rest of this entry »

Google introduced a new system called ‘Portable Contacts’, last month, to make it possible for third party websites to access a user’s friends list without requiring them to disclose their password. Read the rest of this entry »

Twitter has gained immense popularity in the last year, and seems to have finally decided to try and generate some revenue. The popular micro-blogging service has publicly acknowledged the possibilities of two potential revenue generation models. Read the rest of this entry »

Mel Carson, Microsoft adCenter’s Community Manager, announced yesterday that they will close the adCenter Analytics program at the beta stage itself. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft has started internal testing of the upgraded version of their search engine, Live Search. This new incarnation of Live Search has been codenamed Kumo. Read the rest of this entry »

If speculative reports from analysts at Barclay’s are to be believed, Google may soon decide to end their search monetisation deal with MySpace. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft has launched a “new” technology in beta, with the exact same features and function as QR Codes - it allows mobile users to reach Internet websites without having to type out a URL. They are calling them ‘Tags’. Read the rest of this entry »

Live Search results used to have three mainline ad positions above the organic results in the past. This has now been increased to four mainline ad positions on the search engine results pages in the U.K, which means some users will not see any organic results without scrolling. Read the rest of this entry »

It looks as though there is no end in sight for the Microsoft-Yahoo! acquisition deal. Read the rest of this entry »

During his keynote address at the International Consumer Electronics Show 2009 last week, Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, made some exciting new announcements about Microsoft Live Search. To begin with, Ballmer said that Microsoft has entered into a 3-year agreement with Dell. Read the rest of this entry »

That the year has been bad for Yahoo in more ways than one has been quite obvious. However, few could have predicted such a dismal ending. Read the rest of this entry »

Two weeks ago, Microsoft announced that they would be making substantial changes to Windows Live. These changes have now been made and it looks as though Windows Live is likely to replace MSN as Microsoft’s mainstay. Read the rest of this entry »

Now that the beta testing period for Google’s browser, Chrome, is due to end early next year, it is obvious that Google will do everything in their power to market their product and make it as popular as Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. If sources are to be believed, Google is planning to forge deals with various computer manufacturing firms, to pre-install Chrome on all their new personal computers, just as is currently being done for Internet explorer. Read the rest of this entry »

After successfully bringing his company’s stock price down from almost $30 to $11, putting off a bid from Microsoft that would have added tremendous shareholder value and laying off thousands of employees, Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang has finally handed in his resignation today. Read the rest of this entry »

While everyone is still talking about the failure of the Google - Yahoo! paid search deal, Microsoft seems to be quietly moving in for the kill. They are currently trying to seal a deal with Verizon Wireless. Read the rest of this entry »

An old saying goes, ‘Too much of a good thing is bad’. This saying seems to apply quite well to Facebook in recent times. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft is in the process of allowing its users to share their opinions about the search results provided by Live Search. Read the rest of this entry »

Gloomy forecasts and plummeting bottom lines have led to the once giant of online advertising and search to announce 1,500 more job cuts this year, bringing the total to 2,500 employee lay-offs. Read the rest of this entry »