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Saving AOL with the help of P&G

The analysts say the situation is dire, but Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL, tells the New York Times how he is going to save the company with the help of Procter & Gamble. Former Google boy Armstrong tells the paper that: "If you tried to recreate...

Posted Jul 23 2009, 11:05 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL, Procter & Gamble

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MySpace ventures into webmail

News Corporation's MySpace is believed to be rolling out its own webmail service tomorrow. According to paidContent.org , users will be given their own addresses “@myspace.com”. Apparently “a bunch of ex-Hotmail guys"are running the project out...

Posted Jul 22 2009, 11:42 AM by Jacquie Bowser with | with no comments

Filed under: Myspace, Yahoo!

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Yahoo! plays its safe with CEO appointment

Yahoo! has continued to do exactly what got it in this mess in the first place. It has played it boring and hired a CEO, in Carol Bartz, who is a safe pair of hands for a publicly quoted company, but has little or no Web 2.0 or advertising experience...

Posted Jan 14 2009, 09:05 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!

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Facebook says no to Twitter

Facebook has walked out on talks to buy Twitter saying $500m was too much. Some will say that maybe it is for a service that makes no money - but I'm still convinced it has much potential. It's a little amusing for Facebook – over valued at some...

Posted Nov 25 2008, 08:58 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Blogging, Facebook, social media, Twitter, Yahoo!

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An independent Yahoo! is good for business (says Google)

Google CEO Eric Schmidt is at it again telling anyone who will listen what a great thing it would be for the industry if Yahoo! stayed independent because "a combination with Microsoft "would be anti-competitive". Like he should know. Of...

Posted Jul 11 2008, 12:10 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!

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What is Yahoo! for?

As Yahoo! boss Jerry Yang hits out at his detractors, there's an interesting piece around today that asks the salient question: what is Yahoo!? While Microsoft tries to resurrect its effort to buy some/all of Yahoo!, Yang was yesterday talking up...

Posted Jul 10 2008, 10:53 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: Microsoft, Yahoo!

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Jerry Yang smart dumb

I'm sure that Yahoo! chief executive Jerry Yang is a very smart man, but it seems that, like a lot of men, he is of the smart-dumb variety. That's the only way to explain why he would want to sign a deal with his biggest competitor Google, which...

Posted Jun 13 2008, 09:27 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!

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Google widens search lead over rivals

On the same day that Google moves ahead again in the search battle (it had almost 62% of the market), billionaire co-founder Larry Page criticised the potential Microsoft tie-up with Yahoo!, saying it would "concentrate too much power in the online...

Posted May 23 2008, 11:45 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!

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Will Microsoft really buy Facebook and challenge the Google Monster?

That's the story that is starting to go around again, and it could do so for as much as $20bn. This could, in effect, create two scary companies, but isn't that better than one? Here is how the story goes. Robert Scoble on his blog says he is...

Posted May 20 2008, 11:09 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!

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Floundering Yahoo! and who will win out in the merger

Yahoo! seems to be fresh out of ideas. We know this because its solution to fighting off Microsoft is to form an alliance with Google. This appears to be the equivalent of the lamb shacking up with the hungry wolf. Good luck with that one. Yahoo!'s...

Posted Feb 05 2008, 02:57 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with no comments

Filed under: Google, Microsoft, social media, Yahoo!, YouTube

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Microsoft and Yahoo! the merger

Things are bad at Yahoo! and it looks like the end of the road as a standalone company with more pain on the way as Microsoft launches its $44.6bn bid, but it does mean that finally things will get interesting for Google and the rest of us. Yahoo! announced...

Posted Feb 01 2008, 12:30 PM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!

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Slow down for online newspapers grows

After the New York Times last week, more evidence that the lifeline of online advertising is not looking as strong as it once was, with more newspaper firms saying growth is slowing It was reported last week after the New York Times Company warned that...

Posted Apr 23 2007, 09:18 AM by Gordon Macmillan with | with 3 comment(s)

Filed under: Google, Los Angeles Times, Online advertising, Search marketing, Sir Martin Sorrell, Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times, Yahoo!, Caroline Little

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