Google’s second quarter saw rising revenues and earnings, but fell short of Wall Street expectations.
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Written By: Carolyn Surh on July 16, 2010
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Written By: Alice Truong on February 18, 2010
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Given all the contention with the Google vs. China war, there’s a lot to be lost: Google can lose an estimated $300 million to $600 million if it pulls out of the country, China’s image can be further tarnished on the human-rights front. At least one company will benefit tremendously from this conflict, and it is the search-engine giant in China: Baidu Inc.
Written By: Shahzad Chaudhary on August 12, 2009
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BY SHAHZAD CHAUDHARY – MEDILL REPORTS
I first noticed these signs a couple of days ago when I was driving West on Chicago’s I-290: giant billboards promoting Google’s ‘Apps at work.’ Google has launched a massive campaign to promote its business applications (Google Docs, G-mail, Spreadsheet, Presentation) with its cross-hairs set right on Microsoft.
Every day, for one [...]
Written By: yewonkang on July 29, 2009
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The highly anticipated deal between Microsoft and Yahoo drew opposite reactions from their share holders.
BY YEWON KANG – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
The market’s decision on the highly anticipated deal between Microsoft Corp. [[MSFT]] and Yahoo! Inc. [[YHOO]], announced early Wednesday? Microsoft, the winner, and Yahoo the loser.
Microsoft’s shares closed up 33 cents, or [...]
Written By: yewonkang on July 23, 2009
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Bing raised Microsoft’s search market share to 6.5 percent while overall search market shares in June fell by 1.7 percent. (Source: Compete Inc.)
BY YEWON KANG – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
Microsoft Corp.’s shares slipped 7 percent after its worse-than-expected earnings release on Thursday.
Net Income in the fiscal fourth [...]
Written By: Shahzad Chaudhary on July 9, 2009
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BY SHAHZAD CHAUDHARY – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
There’s a lot of buzz going around currently about the newly announced Google Chrome OS rivaling Microsoft’s successful Windows operating system.
According to a Google blogpost, Google Chrome OS will be a light weight OS that will ‘initially be targeted at netbooks’, which means if Google [...]
Written By: Ming Zhuang on May 26, 2009
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(An early version of Bing/businesspundit.com)
By Ming Zhuang/Medill News Service
Will Google be the only dominating search engine in the digital world? Microsoft says no.
According to Ad Age, a trade publication for the advertising industry, Microsoft Corp. [[MSFT]] is set to unveil an $80 million to [...]
Written By: Ming Zhuang on May 12, 2009
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(www.physorg.com)
BY MING ZHUANG/MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
According to reports from the Washington Post [[WPO]] and the New York Times [[NYT]], Google [[GOOG]] is talking with both of them about a partnership or collaboration of some sort.
The argument arises again – are the newspapers seeing an end when the economic [...]
Written By: sidvee on May 1, 2009
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BY SIDDHARTHA VAIDYANATHAN – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
Few diseases have been so prevalent in the social media world as the ongoing swine flu crisis. Facebook and Twitter are flooded with messages and both sites even offer maps to show the spread of the virus. You can check out the interactive map [...]
Written By: sidvee on April 27, 2009
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BY SIDDHARTHA VAIDYANATHAN- MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
Been to Google’s homepage and seen the quirky doodle? It’s dedicated to Samuel Morse, the inventor of the single wire telegraph, who was born on April 27, 1791. The code on the page is below:
…. .- .–. .–. -.– / -… .. .-. – [...]