Apps have been around for much longer than most of us realize. The first apps made their appearance in the 1990’s via PDAs like the Psion and the Palm Pilot. The years that followed saw apps that ran on Java, Symbian, Brew, Bada, and more. Apps as we know them today made their debut in […]
Yandex, Russia’s largest search provider, has filed a complaint against Google for what it believes are anti-competitive practices. The complaint specifically relates Google’s bundling of its search engine and apps into Android, which is, by far, the most popular mobile OS in Russia. According to Yandex, Google is actively preventing local smartphone vendors from pre-loading […]
Yandex, Russia’s largest search provider, has filed a complaint against Google for what it believes are anti-competitive practices. The complaint specifically relates Google’s bundling of its search engine and apps into Android, which is, by far, the most popular mobile OS in Russia. According to Yandex, Google is actively preventing local smartphone vendors from pre-loading […]
DuckDuckGo Gabriel Weinberg, CEO at DuckDuckGo DuckDuckGo bills itself as “the search engine that doesn’t track you”. After the revelations in the US National Security Agency files, that sounds tempting. Named after the playground game duck duck goose, the site is not just banking on the support of people paranoid about GCHQ and the NSA. […]
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Today comScore released US search market share figures for August. I’m tempted to say, “Nothing to see here folks, move on.” All the numbers are basically flat compared with July. There was almost no movement across sites; everybody’s in the same position as last month. A year ago Google’s share of the US search market […]
To cater to a consumer base that continues to increase its online media consumption, many traditional local media properties such as newspapers, TV and radio stations have made the shift to digital. But when seeking out local information and news online, consumers are less inclined to turn to digital editions of local newspapers, radio and […]
Tony Glover Last Updated: Mar 20, 2011 Standard search engines like that of Microsoft and Google are now vulnerable to a challenge from newcomers such as Blekko. Emmanuel Dunand / AFP next photo […]
Investors should buy bullish Yahoo! Inc. options because the company, which has the second-biggest U.S. search engine, probably will be sold, Susquehanna International Group LLP said. Susquehanna strategists recommended buying a January 2012 $15 call while selling a January 2012 $20 call, a strategy known as a call spread which cuts the cost of the […]
(AFP) – 7 hours ago WASHINGTON — Yahoo! began rolling out changes to its Web search engine on Thursday, the first significant revamp since it partnered with Microsoft to take on market leader Google. Microsoft and Yahoo! reached an agreement last year which calls for the US software giant to eventually power searches at all […]