Yahoo Inc shares fell for a second straight day after the company announced a Web search partnership with Microsoft Corp that failed to live up to Wall Street expectations.
Even as the broader market rallied, Yahoo shares dropped as much as 6 percent on Thursday. The stock recovered a little in late trading, but is still [...]
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Twitter has given another pointer to its future after taking the covers off of a new homepage, which puts the focus squarely on search and allows non-users to discover what is being talked about on the service.
The new homepage now looks much more like a traditional search engine with text now above a big search [...]
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The fashion magazines Vogue, InStyle and Lucky may rule the newsstand racks. But online, they are also-rans, overlooked by the fashion-conscious in favor of Polyvore, an upstart Web site far from Fifth Avenue.
Polyvore is a user-generated fashion magazine filled with user-generated ads. The people who go to it play fashion editor and create collages featuring [...]
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LONDON - The total estimated global active internet audience is now 625m and nearly two-thirds of these users have joined a social networking site, according to UM’s fourth ‘Power to the People’ social media study.
The survey charts the growth of social media in the past 12 months. It says that almost 63% of active internet [...]
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Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it is releasing the code for Windows 7 to PC manufacturers, keeping the software company on track to have machines running its new operating system in the stores by late October.
The move means Hewlett-Packard Co, Dell Inc, Acer Inc and other computer makers can start to load up new PCs, [...]
Twitter has seen the internet flooded with 310 of its most confidential documents including partner agreements, financial projections and security passcodes after it fell foul of hackers. Here are six of the juiciest snippets from the company’s secret files.
1) Twitter’s internal growth forecast puts the microblogging site at 25 million users by the end of [...]
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Microsoft has killed off its oft-mocked mascot Clippy - the well-to-do paperclip - in a new blockbuster themed ad for Office 2010, paving the way for a large announcement expected next week.
The over the top ad features Matrix style agents trying to track down an international spy who holds the key to a Microsoft [...]
Coca-Cola, Newsweek and Kings of Leon are among the first advertisers to take advantage of a new Facebook initiative that allows brands to embed Fan Pages into their own websites.
The service, dubbed Fan Boxes, enables advertisers to integrate their Facebook Fan Pages into their own consumer-facing websites, enabling users to see status updates, videos [...]
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CoTweet, a web-based platform that helps large firms manage their Twitter accounts, including the likes of Starbucks, Microsoft and Pepsi, has raised $1.1m (£676k) in first round funding from some social media heavy hitters.
High-profile investors including Baseline Ventures, Founders Fund, First Round Capital, SV Angel, Maples Investments and Freestyle Capital - whose prior investments [...]
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LONDON - Following Michael Jackson’s memorial last night, which attracted a global audience of hundreds of millions, a Belgian agency has created an online “eternal moonwalk” to commemorate the king of pop.
Devised by group94, the website features a continuous stream of videos, submitted from all over the world, of fans mimicking Jackson’s famous moonwalk.
The [...]
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