news.cnet.com - 11/24/2008
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Microsoft is expected to rebrand and relaunch its Windows Live Search, according to various reports. There have been tremors on the Web that Microsoft was considering a new brand name for Live Search, and now the site LiveSide is reporting that Microsoft has taken control of the domain name ...
pcgameshardware.com - 11/22/2008
business.timesonline.co.uk - 11/30/2008
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business.timesonline.co.uk —
SOFTWARE giant Microsoft is in talks to acquire
Yahoo s online search business for $20 billion (
13 billion). The proposal forms the centrepiece of a complex transaction that would see Microsoft support a new management team to take control of ...
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Microsoft in $20bn Yahoo deal
microsoft.com - 11/19/2008
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microsoft.com —
New anti-malware solution will broaden PC protection and
help improve Windows experience. REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 18,
2008— To address the growing need for a PC security solution tailored to the demands of emerging markets, smaller PC form factors and ...
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Microsoft Announces Plans for No-Cost Consumer Security ...
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Windows Live Search to become 'Kumo'?
The Tech Report: News —
... , citing "a source within the company." According to TechCrunch, the rebranding will occur early next year, and Microsoft might go with the name "Kumo"a Japanese word meaning both "cloud" and "spider." That's certainly easier to say and a little catchier than "Live Search," although TechCrunch says Microsoft might retain the Live name for its network of online services. Nothing in set in stone quite yet, though. In a different report, CNet News points out that Microsoft recently hired Yahoo Search Technology VP Sean Suchter to work on Live Search. The move hints Microsoft is ...
Microsoft Windows Live Search to be rebranded Kumo?
DV Hardware —
... Word is going around that Microsoft may soon relaunch its Windows Live Search as "Kumo". CNET heard Microsoft is considering to rebrand its search engine again and since the software giant recently bought the domain "kumo.com" it's believed Kumo may be the new name of Microsoft's search engine. Kumo is a Japanese word, it means "cloud" or "spider", this definitely makes sense for a search engine and it sounds better than "Windows Live Search". ...
Microsoft Might Be Looking To Acquire Yahoo Search
Maximum PC —
... to pry market share from search juggernaut Google, but so far nothing has worked. Popular rumors have even began speculating that the Redmond based software giant may be attempting to rebrand its search service. If this turns out to be true however, will Kumo or Yahoo Live be the new brand surging out of the gate? According to ...
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Microsoft To Rebrand Search. Will It Be Kumo?
techcrunch.com 11/24/2008 — Microsoft will relaunch Windows Live Search under a new brand sometime early next year, says a source within the company. What we don’t know is what that new brand will be, although a few names have been thrown around. According to our source, a ...
Microsoft's Skybox Becomes My Phone
technologyexpert.blogspot.com 2/7/2009 — I wrote about Skybox earlier, which was supposed to be Microsoft's MobileMe knock-off, unveiled at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) which runs Feb. 16 - 20. The beta signup site is already up, but it seems they've renamed the service; it's now My Phone . Unfortunately, it's really a teaser; ...
Microsoft's Blunder of the Decade : What X-Box Should Have Been
edbordenblog.com 1/30/2009 — In 2007, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs appeared for the first time together in a live joint interview at the All Things Digital conference, answering pointed questions about the history behind their companies and thoughts on the current state of the ...
Microsoft Doesn't Want Yahoo Either
pcworld.com 11/13/2008 — Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said today in Sydney, Australia that the software giant is not interested in taking over Yahoo anymore. After Google abandoned this week a much-needed advertising partnership, Yahoo is now facing a difficult ...
Microsoft BING scares me
johanlouwers.blogspot.com 5/30/2009 — BING is the name of the new search engine from Microsoft. However, even do mainstream media is referring to it as the new search engine on the block and the attempt of Microsoft to battle Google, it is not a search engine. Even Microsoft itself is stating that it is not a search engine.Microsoft ...
Microsoft offers to just 'Fix it'
news.cnet.com 2/6/2009 —
When people encounter a problem with their PC, they often go to the Web and do a search to see if others have had the problem. If they are lucky, someone has found a fix and listed the steps on either a support document or within a user forum.
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Windows 7 First Look: A Big Fix for Vista
pcworld.com 11/1/2008 — What if Microsoft waved a magic wand and everything people hated about Windows Vista went away? You might have an operating system that you liked--and that's what Microsoft appears to be striving for with Windows 7 . We checked out an early beta of ...
Yahoo sells bargain shopping site Kelkoo —
Home - THE INQUIRER 11/24/2008
Sylvie Barak the Inquirer , Monday 24 November 2008. 11:31:00 For a bargain price AFTER MANY MONTHS of speculation, Yahoo finally appears to have sold off comparative shopping Web site, Kelkoo to a UK-based private equity firm called ...
Jerry Yang - Slugworth to Google's Willy Wonka —
The Register 11/24/2008
How did it come to this? Fail and You Yahoo! Ever since Wonka's Chocolate Factory in Mountain View started serving queries, it has been a living monument to the failure of Sunnyvale's Slugworth - and just about everything that has gone wrong ...
Yahoo! offloads Kelkoo for a song —
The Register 11/25/2008
Euro shopping service = €375m loss Yahoo! has sold Kelkoo, the European comparison-shopping service, to a hereto unknown English private equity firm called Jamplant.…
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