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Yahoo! News: Portals and Search Engines
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Microsoft files EU complaint over Google, Motorola
(Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp has asked EU antitrust regulators to intervene in a patent dispute with Google Inc and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc as it stepped up its battle against Google.
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Google carrying real-time data from EU exchanges
(AP)
AP - Google is to carry real-time pricing from leading European stock exchanges, the company said Tuesday, marking an expansion of the online search giant's financial offerings.
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Google offers live London stock prices for free
(Reuters)
Reuters - Google is to bolster its Google Finance service by giving retail investors free access to real-time London Stock Exchange share prices.
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Russian search engine Yandex teams up with Twitter
(AP)
AP - Russia's top search engine Yandex said Tuesday it has teamed up with Twitter to allow the Russian firm to show the full feed of all public Twitter posts.
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Twitter partners with Yandex for real-time search
(Reuters)
Reuters - Twitter and Russian search engine Yandex have agreed a partnership that will allow Yandex to show new tweets in its search results almost instantly, as Twitter becomes an increasingly important source of real-time information.
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How to become a YouTube star
(AP)
AP - YouTube has committed $100 million to 96 new video channels and has recruited top Hollywood talent to produce content. But the Google-owned site's talent search is far from complete. Fancy yourself a filmmaker?
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Demand Media stock soars as 4Q results renew hope
(AP)
AP - Demand Media Inc.'s stock soared by 31 percent Friday after the online content publisher's fourth-quarter earnings and outlook for this year gave investors hope that it is starting to recover from diminished traffic that had stemmed from changes to Google's Internet search formula.
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China's Baidu looks to mobile search for growth
(Reuters)
Reuters - China's top search engine, Baidu Inc, plans to begin monetizing its mobile search traffic and social media platforms this year in an effort to boost growth outside its traditional PC domain, Baidu's chief executive said on Friday.
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Google gets U.S., EU nod to buy Motorola Mobility
(Reuters)
Reuters - U.S. and European regulators approved Google Inc's $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc and said they would keep a sharp eye on the web search giant to ensure patents critical to the telecommunications industry would be licensed at fair prices.
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Cyberplex unit to pay $4.8 million to Yahoo for poor traffic
(Reuters)
Reuters - Cyberplex Inc said its debt-laden unit Tsavo Media is required to pay Yahoo Inc $4.8 million for what the U.S. search company called "low quality traffic" from ads on Tsavo-run websites last year.
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Microsoft slams Google user data policy in new ads
(AP)
AP - Microsoft Corp. slammed search rival Google Inc. with full-page newspaper ads Wednesday, saying that recent changes at Google that allow it to internally merge the data it collects on user activity across services such as YouTube and Gmail are meant to allow advertisers to better target customers.
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House lawmakers seek Google answers on privacy policy
(Reuters)
Reuters - Lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Committee asked Google Inc on Thursday to provide answers about recent changes to the search engine's privacy policy.
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Analysis: Wall Street puzzles over Google's new direction
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Google Inc, which revolutionized Internet searches with an easy-to-use website, has itself become an increasingly tricky business to grasp.
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Core suppliers savor bigger Apple pie
(Reuters)
Reuters - Suppliers basked in the reflection of Apple's glowing results on Wednesday after the company's gold standard iPhones and iPads flew off the shelves over the holiday sales season.
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Yahoo delivers another listless performance in 4Q
(AP)
 AP - Yahoo slipped further behind in the online advertising race during the fourth quarter as the Internet company entered the fourth year of a revenue slump.
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New Yahoo CEO says company needs to "do better"
(Reuters)
Reuters - Yahoo Chief Executive Scott Thompson tried to manage expectations on his first earnings call as the new CEO, broadly addressing numerous issues the Internet company is grappling with -- from a potential sale to reviving its core display advertising business -- but declined to lay out a detailed strategy.
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Google reportedly courts Hollywood for (more) YouTube movie rentals
(Ben Patterson)
Ben Patterson - Google has been dabbling in streaming movie rentals for months now, but word has it that the search giant wants to plunge into the pay-per-view market head-first. Hollywood, meet YouTube.
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Google upgrades search index speed, freshness
(Christopher Null)
Christopher Null - Are you tired of searching Google for, say, a market share report and being handed data from 2009? Those days may be coming to an end, says Google, thanks to an update to its Web indexing system called Caffeine.
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Microsoft Bing ends cashback feature
(Christopher Null)
Christopher Null - Some called it a move of the truly desperate: Paying users outright for using the Microsoft Bing search engine.
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