Google is expected to receive unconditional approval from European Union regulators next week for its $3.1 billion takeover of ad firm DoubleClick, people familiar with the situation said.
The approval has long been expected because the European Commission decided in January not to object formally to the transaction. The Commission, the EU’s top competition watchdog, has [...]
“We’re in the game, and we’re the little engine that could, just working away, working away, working away,” Ballmer told interviewer and former Apple employee and evangelist Guy Kawasaki. “In online, yeah, it’s Google, Google, Google. I’d say we’re the underdog.” That’s a far cry from as recently as last year, when Ballmer called Google [...]
The March 2008 Domain Name Industry Brief released by VeriSign reports that “the Domain Name Industry closed 2007 with more than 153 million domain name registrations worldwide across all of the Top-Level Domain Names (TLDs), an increase of nearly 33 million domain name registrations since the close of 2006.”
PDF copy of the Domain Name Industry [...]
Google, IBM, Microsoft, VeriSign, and Yahoo! have joined the board of the OpenID Foundation, the organisation set up to facilitate access to multiple online services with a single username and password.
The move follows Yahoo! last month announcing that its accountholders would be able to use any web site supporting OpenID without creating a separate username [...]
The Yahoo! OpenID (beta) which was announced earlier this month has just been launched. You can try it out right away.
This is expected to move the OpenID movement ahead considerably. All 250 million members of Yahoo are now able to log in to any website, not just Yahoo, that supports OpenID 2.0.
At this moment you [...]
US search-engine giant Google is interested in setting up a base in Malaysia, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said, according to reports Sunday.
“They want to make their presence felt in Malaysia. It will be a big boost for our ICT industry,” he told reporters after meeting Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt on the [...]
Nokia is partnering with Facebook to build the popular social networking site into its handsets, reports suggest.
According to PaidContent, the deal could see a Facebook button appearing on hundreds of thousands of Nokia handsets, giving it the same prominence that YouTube currently enjoys on the main screen of the iPhone.
The report also claims that part [...]
If the internet has proven anything, it’s that you don’t have to be big to beat the best. That may very well be the mantra of Proximic, a 14-man German startup that is looking to take down Google’s AdSense.
While others focus on beating Google at search, Proximic hopes to beat AdSense by syndicating product listings [...]