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Google AdWords phishing threat
May 2, 2008
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Google AdWords customers are being warned of a phishing scam currently in circulation.
Researchers at security firm Trend Micro have discovered the trick which seeks to get AdWords users to hand over credit card details.
Google AdWords is a sevice used by advertisers to get their products seen online and [...]
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May 1, 2008 1:55 PM PDT
The IBM-Google connection
Posted by Dan Farber 2 comments
LOS ANGELES–Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt gave a speech and chatted with IBM’s CEO Sam Palmisano onstage Thursday at IBM’s Business Partner Leadership Conference here. The two talked up their relationship, which primarily involves a joint research project. In October, Google and IBM [...]
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May 2, 2008 7:25 PM PDT
The Silicon Valley triangle: Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft
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It’s Friday night and still no word from the Microsoft or Yahoo bunkers. The headlines for today tell the story (see Techmeme).
The Wall Street Journal, which appears to be a conduit for the [...]
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Technology April 17, 2008, 9:58PM EST
Google Beats the Bears
Despite analyst nay-saying and fewer paid ad clicks leading up to its first-quarter earnings announcement, the search giant reports solid growth
by Robert Hof
Eric Schmidt, chairman and CEO of Google Torsten Blackwood/AFP/Getty Images
The Google bears are scurrying back into the woods. On Apr. 17, Google quelled concerns [...]
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Google Docs … so what - the ONE reason why you should care
Published by Mike Riversdale on April 17, 2008 in Efficiency, SaaS, Web x.0 and nzwc.
(cross posting from Mike Riversdale: Enterprise 2.0 New Zealand style blog)
Google Apps … on-line word processing … a slightly interesting “battle” between Google and Microsoft … !? … [...]
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April 18, 2008, 4:42 pm
How Big Is Google? Here’s Another Measure
By Saul Hansell
Rory Cellan-Jones, a blogger for the BBC, calculates an interesting statistic from Google’s earnings release yesterday.
Google earned $803 million, about £407 million, in the United Kingdom in the first quarter. If you assume that rate won’t grow, that makes £1.6 billion for the [...]
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March 13, 2008, 4:15 pm
Google’s Trojan Horse: Let the Free Ad Serving Begin
By Saul Hansell
One of the biggest misunderstandings in much of the discussion about Google’s deal to buy DoubleClick is the perception that DoubleClick actually is involved in selling advertising.
It’s not. It sells software that advertisers and publishers uses to place and keep track [...]
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Posted in Google, Microsoft on April 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Google and Salesforce Join to Fight Microsoft
By MIGUEL HELFT
Published: April 14, 2008
Google and Salesforce.com, two of Microsoft’s most conspicuous rivals, are expanding a 10-month-old collaboration in an effort to accelerate their sales of customer management and office software to businesses.
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Yahoo!/Microsoft Execs Meet For Round Two
Posted by Zonk on Sunday March 16, @03:21PM
from the ready-steady-fight dept.
psychosmyth writes “Microsoft’s deal to Yahoo! is apparently back on the table. Yahoo execs met again with Microsoft early this past week to re-discuss the deal that fell through earlier. ‘The gathering, first reported by The Wall [...]
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Yahoo Sets Bullish Financial Targets
By Shira Ovide
Word Count: 526 | Companies Featured in This Article: Yahoo, Microsoft, Google
Yahoo Inc. sought to paint a rosy picture of its financial future as the Internet company pitches its rationale for turning down a takeover offer from Microsoft Corp.
Microsoft in February lobbed a hostile bid to buy Yahoo, a [...]
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