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Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft’s platforms and services division, said he thinks Microsoft can get a 40% share of the search market in the next 3-5 years, Reuters reported.
“Speaking at a UBS investor conference, Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft’s platforms and services division, laid out the company’s strategy to become a leader in the growing [...]

Northeastern University has sued Google in the patent-friendly federal court for the Eastern District of Texas, accusing the search giant of infringing upon its work.

The University has paired with a startup called Jarg, which is the exclusive licensee of technology patented in 1997, just before Google’s incorporation and subsequent rise in the world of online [...]

The European Union Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson said the Untied States should change the Internet gambling law that discriminates against European companies by not allowing them to offer their services in the U.S.

"What we need to see is a change in U.S. legislation that removes that discrimination against EU operators," Mandelson told reporters before going [...]

Walmart.com says it is not going into the online grocery delivery business.

Last month there were reports that Wal-Mart was going to test online grocery sales by expanding its home delivery service for grocery items sold at its Sam’s Club warehouse division.
A spokeswoman for Sam’s Club also said the retailer is not in the online grocery [...]

Now that the Google Phone hype has proven an operating system play for mobile devices, Yahoo’s strategy of grabbing advertisers for the handset could be a competitive edge.Yahoo will be pleased with grabbing the brand advertisers who can pay handsomely for mobile display ads, while Google tweaks its phone software and its alliance of partners [...]

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer defended his company’s purchase of a 1.6 percent stake in social network Facebook for $240 million.

"We didn’t make a mistake," Ballmer told reporters at a business conference in Mumbai. "The valuation of Facebook is still to be determined. Certainly today, it’s very, very popular. So for a company like ours [...]

Algorithmic accidents at Google News have been blamed for matching the wrong photos to stories, including a really unfortunate one caught by Newsweek.Putting the right pictures with the right stories has proved a challenge to Google News. That challenge received dramatic illustration when Newsweek grabbed a screenshot of a story about the possible departure of [...]

Google and Cisco have partnered with the United Nations to launch a new Web site that will detail how and where Millennium Development Goals on ending poverty are being met.

U.N. officials and other experts have said that meeting goals set in 2000 by the target date of 2015 is becoming more challenging. The creators of [...]

We’ve discussed cultural differences, censorship, and the lack of a home field advantage - these have all posed challenges to Google in China.  It’s now becoming clear that Google will also need to overcome its unfamiliarity with the mobile market to succeed in this country.
Internet access is often easier and cheaper to get through [...]

A high-resolution image of Da Vinci’s "Last Supper" will be posted on the Internet Saturday October 27 by an Italian technology company providing fodder for art enthusiasts and conspiracists.

The digital company, called HAL9000 after the menacing computer in Stanley Kubrick’s film "2001: A Space Odyssey" will post the "Last Supper" on it’s site and it [...]