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The BBC website reports that Microsoft have made an offer to buy the search engine company Yahoo for $44.6bn (£22.4bn) in cash and shares.
The offer was 62% over Yahoo’s current closing share price. Yahoo cut its revenue forecasts earlier this week and said it would have to spend an additional $300m this year trying […]

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It has been reported that there were 210 million internet users in China by the end of 2007, second only to the United States.
Yahoo News reports that the search engine market in China made ¥946.6 million ($131.3 million) in the fourth quarter and is dominated by the Chinese search engine business, Baidu, Google and Yahoo […]

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According to a recent survey. UK companies are continuing to see personal use of the internet in work time as a threat to productivity and possible litigation; and a staggering two-thirds are monitoring employees online use.
The BBC website states that a survey of European firms by DataMonitor suggests that the internet is “becoming a major […]

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Yahoo! has upgraded the search option for its main search engine domain - www.yahoo.com to include a helpful tool called+ Search Assist. The +Search Assist helps the searcher refine the query by showing a drop down list of related searches and suggestions.

This alone isn’t too much to get excited about. but when you are […]

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Social networking continue to rule the roost on the Internet as websites such as MySpace. Facebook. YouTube and Stumble Upon attract more than two million visitors every month; and the phenomemnon continues to grow every day.
Social networking has become a powerful way for people to communicate and ’socialise’ but it is also proving a […]

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A recent survey of over 1.000 American’s by advertising agency JWT suggested the Internet has become more important to their everyday lives that 28% spend less time socialising with friends because of it. More surprising was that 20% spend less time having sex because they’re too busy online!
The bold conclusion drawn was that. as […]

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It seems every week now someone will ask. “Are you on Facebook?”
Facebook is becoming one of the most popular social networking tools here in the UK. It is now as common to be asked if you are on Facebook as it is MySpace or You Tube. It is spreading like wild fire. and like […]

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Microsoft is flexing its muscles & stomping its feet at EU decision.
The biggest IT company in the world. often sneered at by website developers & open source gurus. are not the only IT company to occupy a powerful global market position. though they are #1. Google also has a hold over the business […]

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