Having failed to buy all of Yahoo, or even its search business, Microsoft is now looking to take an even more piecemeal approach–hire its workers. The company took out an ad in the San Jose Mercury News touting the fact that it has search jobs available in Silicon Valley. “There are now very few companies that remain truly committed to defining the future of search and online advertising,”... 

Yahoo loses two more prominent execs Flickr founders depart as Yahoo reels from loss of Microsoft bid, proxy battle SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) – Yahoo Inc. has lost two more prominent executives in what some analysts see as a sign of mounting strain at the beleaguered Web portal as it reels from a proxy war over its aborted merger with Microsoft Corp. Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, the... 

Since early morning yesterday, Google’s App Engine Web application hosting service has been forced into a limp, yielding persistent errors for users attempting to access their applications. In the App Engine Forum at 6:35 pm PT yesterday, a team member posted a brief explanation of why users were having difficulty: “This outage was the result of a bug in our datastore servers and was triggered... 

LABUTTA – Bloggers may find their messages blocked by Myanmar’s military regime, but that hasn’t stopped Nyi Lynn Seck from raising tens of thousands of dollars for cyclone survivors through his website. The 29-year-old IT specialist and his friends are getting their hands dirty and putting the donations to work by helping to build “Budget Huts” in the Irrawaddy delta,... 

London, June 18 : Teenagers are using satellite images on the internet to find houses with swimming pools – and then turning up uninvited for an impromptu dip. The craze, known as ‘dipping’, involves using the Google Earth programme, which provides high-quality photos of Britain and other countries, reports the Telegraph. Once a target is chosen, the youngsters use social networking... 

Six more telecom companies in Asia will offer the Yahoo mobile search service. Yahoo already has 60 such partnerships worldwide, reaching 600 million subscribers. David Ko, Asia managing director and vice president of Yahoo’s mobile division, has told a conference that the huge scale will make mobile advertising more attractive. He said the mobile advertising market is expected to rise to US$16.2... 

Google Street View now includes homes in the Tri-State. Street View is a feature on its maps program that allows people to see pictures of the houses and businesses they are searching, but the pictures sometimes capture people in front of their houses or on city streets. Google began to automatically blur the faces, but it still raises privacy concerns. Copyright 2008 The E.W. Scripps Co. All rights... 

The final offer Microsoft made to Yahoo! this week which the beleaguered Internet search company spurned again would have given it $9 billion in cash and $1 billion a year in revenue sharing. Microsoft had offered $8 billion for a 16 percent stake in Yahoo! and $1 billion for its search business, Kevin Johnson, a key member of Microsoft’s negotiating team, said in a letter to company employees... 

New York, June 9 : If you really wish to know what people think about your looks, Facestat.com is the Web site to visit. All a person needs to do for the purpose is to upload a photo on Facestat, and then the site will ask a series of questions based on age, gender, ethnicity, intelligence, political affiliation, attractiveness, trustworthiness, wealth, weight, intoxication, and relationship status. The... 

Melbourne, June 9 : While Internet and emails may be boosting co-ordination among workers in an organisation, but on the flip side, they are also increasingly making people slaves to the electronic form of communication and offices less efficient, says an email consultant. Email Management Solutions managing director Sharon MacNevin said that there is 40 per cent increase in email use per year since...