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A mega partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft, nearly a year and a half in the making, may finally be nearing reality. The two technology giants are said to be close to finalizing a search advertising deal, according to AllThingsD. Microsoft would sell search engine ads for both companies whi
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A community implementation of .NET is splitting in two, hoping to protect Linux and open-source against potential patent claims from Microsoft. The Mono Project plans to split between a core set of APIs that are based on ECMA specifications of Microsoft's C# and Common Language Infrastructure
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It's Twitter day at Microsoft, apparently. Not only did the software giant announce that it would start adding tweets to its Bing search results, the company actually started officially using Twitter today. To be clear, Microsoft had a rather large presence on Twitter before through its various d
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Google says it will take "all necessary steps" to remove pornography from its Chinese language portal, Google.cn The firm was responded to criticism from China's internet watchdog which said Google was "disseminating pornographic and vulgar information". Google has been warned twice about allo
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Qwest Communications International, the telecommunications company, said on Monday that it was calling off the auction for its nationwide long-haul data and telephone network. The company, based in Denver, said the network was more valuable to the company than the amount it would raise in a sale
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Google appears to be laying down the gauntlet in the e-book market. In discussions with book publishers at the annual BookExpo convention in New York over the weekend, Google signaled its intent to introduce a program by year's end through which publishers could sell digital versions of
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Tata teleservices partners with Yahoo India to innovate and launch unique services for its Indian subscribers. They launched a co-branded home page for all Tata-teleservices users that will have access to all Yahoo and Tata services like Bill Payment, Bill details, tariff plans , promotions, Yahoo
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Mobile Phone Providers Bharti Airtel, which has about 2.7 million Internet subscribers, on Friday launched its Net PC initiative that provides Internet connectivity to users without the need to invest in personal computers (PC). With Net PC, users can also work on basic compute
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Google is looking for solution providers serving the energy market to help utilities get its Google PowerMeter application up and running. PowerMeter is a Google Gadget application that can show consumers their personal electricity consumption on a home computer. It relies on "smart meters" or o
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Scribd.com Turning itself into a kind of electronic vanity publisher, Scribd, an Internet start-up here, will introduce on Monday a way for anyone to upload a document to the Web and charge for it. The Scribd Web site is the most popular of several document-sharing sites that take a YouTube
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