Yahoo
Yahoo Goes to "Panama"
Today at 3 p.m. PST, Yahoo will complete the migration of the Overture pay-per-click model to the Panama platform. The search giant is moving away from its "highest bidder wins" model to the "bid plus quality" model.
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Yahoo Opens Office in Manchester
Oxford Street is now host to Yahoo!, a leading player in the global communications sector. It is the company's only office in England outside of London.
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Google
Princeton Collaborates with Google's Book Project
Today, Princeton University becomes the latest partner to join Google's Library Project. Working together, Google and Princeton will digitize approximately one million public domain books from these collections, so that readers around the world will be able to view, browse, read, and even download public domain materials - all simply by searching online.
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Problems Between MySpace and Google?
Tension between MySpace and Google is hindering a search distribution deal the Internet giants inked last August. At the heart of the matter is a potential pairing between MySpace and Ebay.
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MSN
Job Channel for MSN China
Microsoft Corp.'s online portal MSN.com will launch a China job search service this year to attract young netizens in the world's second-largest Web market, a company spokesman said on Monday.
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MSN May Develop R&D Center in Shanghai
The industry is abuzz with talks that Microsoft Corp. is putting up an R&D center in Shanghai for its MSN service. The company is expected to invest up to $20 million for the center, its 'first' located outside the United States.
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Male Gamers Need a Little "Alone Time," MSN Discovers
According to a recent survey* commissioned by Microsoft Corp.'s (NASDAQ: MSFT) MSN(R) Games, one of the world's leading casual gaming sites, Americans are feeling more stressed out and starved for time than ever, with 56 percent of men (age 18 to 34) and 71 percent of women (age 18 to 34) spending less than an hour on themselves a day engaged in activities that provide downtime or alone time and are pampering or relaxing to them.
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