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Microsoft Reorgs Business Division
(PC World)
PC World - A reorganization at Microsoft Corp., announced Friday, improves the focus of two of the main divisions at the company and could line up a successor to Steve Ballmer, the software giant's CEO.
Microsoft pays $6B for online ad company
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070519/ap_on_bi_ge/microsoft_aquantive"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070518/capt.4c06aff53e40426e8444d7467b1ed37b.microsoft_aquantive_nyml101.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=I23.HasvY.NVwTTRTab5rA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Stock prices for Microsoft and aQuantive are shown at the Nasdaq marketsite on Friday, May 18, 2007 in New York. Microsoft Corp. said Friday it will buy online advertising firm aQuantive Inc. for about $6 billion in cash, paying a premium to catch up with major ad deals by its competitors over the last six weeks. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Microsoft Corp., not wanting to get left behind rivals in an online advertising boom, agreed to pay $6 billion in cash to acquire aQuantive Inc. on Friday, a leading agency for Internet ads which also has powerful technology that serves display and banner ads to other Web sites.</p><br clear="all"/>
Credit Suisse Disruptive Technology Portfolio: Digital River's Ties To Microsoft And PC Industry Raise Concerns Among Investors
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - Stock price takes 9% plunge, biggest of all Disruptive Technology Portfolio companies.
AQuantive deal spurs debate on Microsoft and Yahoo
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070519/bs_nm/aquantive_microsoft_yahoo_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070519/2007_05_18t081902_450x349_us_aquantive_microsoft.jpg?x=130&y=100&sig=8SRxs8e0_3_h_8KttJtA7A--" align="left" height="100" width="130" alt="Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer speaks during his keynote speech at the Software 2007 conference in Santa Clara, California, May 9, 2007. Microsoft Corp. said on Friday it would buy aQuantive Inc. for about $6 billion, or $66.50 a share in cash, which represents an 85 percent premium to the online advertising company's closing price on Thursday. (Lou Dematteis/Microsoft Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - A $6 billion purchase of Web
advertising agency aQuantive Inc. may distract Microsoft Corp.
from any potential merger with Yahoo Inc. , but it does
not derail the logic of such a deal, analysts said on Friday.</p><br clear="all"/>
Aquantive deal no silver bullet for Microsoft
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft's planned acquisition of digital advertising and marketing services agency aQuantive will give the company the tools it needs to dig its heels in as a competitor in the rapidly evolving digital advertising market.
Microsoft Purchase Adds Up To A Test For Google, Yahoo
(Investor's Business Daily)
Investor's Business Daily - Microsoft is willing -- and able -- to pay up if it means wresting away some online ad dollars from Google and Yahoo.
AQuantive Deal no Silver Bullet for Microsoft
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft Corp.'s planned acquisition of digital advertising and marketing services agency aQuantive Inc. will give the company the tools it needs to dig its heels in as a competitor in the rapidly evolving digital advertising market.
Two-Step Windows Vista UAC Hack Published
(PC World)
PC World - Another security researcher has found a way through Windows Vista's heavily hyped User Account Control (UAC) feature.
Microsoft-AQuantive deal portends Web video fight
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/microsoft/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070518/wr_nm/aquantive_microsoft_advertising_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070518/2007_05_18t141250_450x296_us_aquantive_microsoft_advertising.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=ZegPvafa4LRlC4iGHW4NNg--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates delivers his keynote address to the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Los Angeles May 15, 2007. (Lee Celano/Microsoft Corp/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp.'s $6 billion deal to
buy Internet marketing firm aQuantive Inc. is an effort to
capture a bigger role in the nascent Web video market and
increases pressure on competitors to make acquisitions of their
own.</p><br clear="all"/>
Update: Microsoft to buy aQuantive for $6 billion
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Microsoft plans to acquire aQuantive, a digital marketing services agency, for around $6 billion in order to grow its Internet advertising business, it announced Friday.
Camera phone maker mulls gadget's impact
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070520/ap_on_hi_te/candid_camera"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070519/capt.e25d3daf456f4087be155f2bba4795e1.candid_camera_fx101.jpg?x=130&y=86&sig=UsN9TvbGnx.wsayd.LXKjw--" align="left" height="86" width="130" alt="Philippe Kahn poses for a portrait with a camera phone in Santa Cruz, Calif., Wednesday, March 21, 2007. If Kahn feels a bit like a proud father when he sees people holding up their cell phones to snap pictures, there's good reason. He jury-rigged the first camera phone in a Santa Cruz labor-and-delivery room while his wife was in labor with their daughter.(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)" border="0" /></a>AP - The chilling sounds of gunfire on the Virginia Tech campus; the hateful taunts from Saddam Hussein's execution; the racist tirade of comedian Michael Richards.</p><br clear="all"/>
Microsoft pays $6B for online ad company
(AP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070519/ap_on_bi_ge/microsoft_aquantive"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20070518/capt.4c06aff53e40426e8444d7467b1ed37b.microsoft_aquantive_nyml101.jpg?x=130&y=88&sig=I23.HasvY.NVwTTRTab5rA--" align="left" height="88" width="130" alt="Stock prices for Microsoft and aQuantive are shown at the Nasdaq marketsite on Friday, May 18, 2007 in New York. Microsoft Corp. said Friday it will buy online advertising firm aQuantive Inc. for about $6 billion in cash, paying a premium to catch up with major ad deals by its competitors over the last six weeks. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)" border="0" /></a>AP - Microsoft Corp., not wanting to get left behind rivals in an online advertising boom, agreed to pay $6 billion in cash to acquire aQuantive Inc. on Friday, a leading agency for Internet ads which also has powerful technology that serves display and banner ads to other Web sites.</p><br clear="all"/>
Internet ad derby shifts into overdrive
(AP)
AP - The Internet's high-stakes advertising derby shifted into overdrive during the past month as four of the industry's behind-the-scenes players agreed to takeovers. The deals' combined price totaled $10.4 billion, exceeding the total amount of money spent on Internet ads just three years ago.
Uruguay children try low-cost laptops
(AP)
AP - Big smiles spread across the faces of the 160 pupils at a public elementary school in this rural South American hamlet: Each sat gawking at a brightly blinking laptop computer given them days earlier.
Accused nuke engineer: I was showing off
(AP)
AP - A former nuclear engineer accused of taking software back to his native Iran told authorities he was only trying to show off for family and friends.
Kimono retailers go digital
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070519/wr_nm/column_pluggedin_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070520/2007_05_18t145610_450x327_us_column_pluggedin.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=qfc1WOqT_FAM7x1b37Zh1w--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Women clad in kimono take part in a parade through Asakusa district at Sanja festival in Tokyo May 18, 2007. (Kiyoshi Ota/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Japanese are getting reacquainted with
the kimono, helped by a host of Web sites that are succeeding
where pushy sales people and kimono schools have failed.</p><br clear="all"/>
Ads-to-cell phone screens set for rapid growth
(Reuters)
Reuters - The more than $500 million mobile
advertising market looks set to multiply in just a few years,
helped by new technologies and the spread of more advanced
phones.
Branson criticises changes in French mobile phone system
(AFP)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/tech/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070519/bs_afp/telecomfrancebranson"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/afp/20070519/capt.sge.exv43.190507194555.photo00.photo.default-512x359.jpg?x=130&y=91&sig=GTGKUAVMv4wckGjzYh2gqg--" align="left" height="91" width="130" alt="Richard Branson, pictured in 2006, head of phone company Virgin Mobile, was quoted Saturday as saying a new French system allowing subscribers to change mobile operators in 10 days was still too lengthy a process.(AFP/File/Don Emmert)" border="0" /></a>AFP - Richard Branson, head of phone company Virgin Mobile, was quoted Saturday as saying a new French system allowing subscribers to change mobile operators in 10 days was still too lengthy a process.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google to Enhance Search Appliance
(PC World)
PC World - Google Inc. is developing an open source architecture to improve its Search Appliance's ability to index data in content and document management systems and collaboration platforms.
Microsoft Reorgs Business Division
(PC World)
PC World - A reorganization at Microsoft Corp., announced Friday, improves the focus of two of the main divisions at the company and could line up a successor to Steve Ballmer, the software giant's CEO.
Kimono retailers go digital
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070519/wr_nm/column_pluggedin_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070520/2007_05_18t145610_450x327_us_column_pluggedin.jpg?x=130&y=94&sig=qfc1WOqT_FAM7x1b37Zh1w--" align="left" height="94" width="130" alt="Women clad in kimono take part in a parade through Asakusa district at Sanja festival in Tokyo May 18, 2007. (Kiyoshi Ota/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Japanese are getting reacquainted with
the kimono, helped by a host of Web sites that are succeeding
where pushy sales people and kimono schools have failed.</p><br clear="all"/>
Google to Enhance Search Appliance
(PC World)
PC World - Google Inc. is developing an open source architecture to improve its Search Appliance's ability to index data in content and document management systems and collaboration platforms.
Catholics say blog spreads BBC "slander" to Italy
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070519/wr_nm/italy_paedophilia_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070520/2007_05_19t180518_450x273_us_italy_paedophilia.jpg?x=130&y=78&sig=p1CPjYA_lc5jSYqnf3bFtQ--" align="left" height="78" width="130" alt="Employees walks past the BBC's main offices, in west London, December 7, 2004. Italy's leading Roman Catholic newspaper lashed out at bloggers on Saturday for spreading 'slander' by posting a BBC documentary that alleged a Church cover-up of child sexual abuse. (Toby Melville/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Italy's leading Roman Catholic newspaper
lashed out at bloggers on Saturday for spreading "slander" by
posting a BBC documentary that alleged a Church cover-up of
child sexual abuse.</p><br clear="all"/>
Verisign Plugin Brings Green Address Bars to Firefox
(PC World)
PC World - Verisign Inc. has brought a new technology, used to identify trusted Web sites, to the Firefox browser.
Verisign plugin brings green address bars to Firefox
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Verisign has brought a new technology used to identify trusted Web sites to the Firefox browser.
Google to enhance, simplify Search Appliance
(InfoWorld)
InfoWorld - Google is developing an open-source architecture to improve its Search Appliance's ability to index data in content and document management systems and collaboration platforms.
Google Launches ISP Version of Apps Suite
(PC World)
PC World - Google Inc. has released a version of Google Apps tailored for ISPs (Internet service providers) and Web portals, growing this family of hosted collaboration and communication suites for organizations.
Recent online ad deals
(AP)
AP - Recent major deals in the online advertising space:
Internet ad derby shifts into overdrive
(AP)
AP - The Internet's high-stakes advertising derby shifted into overdrive during the past month as four of the industry's behind-the-scenes players agreed to takeovers. The deals' combined price totaled $10.4 billion, exceeding the total amount of money spent on Internet ads just three years ago.
Microsoft-AQuantive deal portends Web video fight
(Reuters)
<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/internet/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070518/wr_nm/aquantive_microsoft_advertising_dc"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/nm/20070518/2007_05_18t141250_450x296_us_aquantive_microsoft_advertising.jpg?x=130&y=85&sig=ZegPvafa4LRlC4iGHW4NNg--" align="left" height="85" width="130" alt="Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates delivers his keynote address to the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in Los Angeles May 15, 2007. (Lee Celano/Microsoft Corp/Handout/Reuters)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - Microsoft Corp.'s $6 billion deal to
buy Internet marketing firm aQuantive Inc. is an effort to
capture a bigger role in the nascent Web video market and
increases pressure on competitors to make acquisitions of their
own.</p><br clear="all"/>
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