
Confirmed: Microsoft Acquires Yammer For $1.2 Billion In Cash
we and others reported a couple of weeks ago the company is acquiring Yammer, which has been described as “Facebook for Enterprises.”...

Microsoft Launches Its Own Branded-Tablet: Microsoft Surface
“Because of Windows 8, the Surface is a PC, the Surface is a tablet, and the Surface is something new that we think people will...

Data Show Tablets Gaining Importance
in conjunction with Barnes & Noble. The event will happen at 3:30 Pacific time. Danny is there (at LA’s Milk Studios) and will be...

Report: Microsoft Buys “Facebook For Enterprises” Yammer For $1.2 Billion
reported yesterday that Microsoft is acquiring Yammer, a business collaboration and communications platform for employees that is often...

Microsoft Buys 800+ AOL Patents For $1.1 Billion
announced an agreement covering the sale of more than 800 AOL patents to Microsoft for $1.056 billion dollars. As part of the agreement,...

Microsoft, AOL And Yahoo Begin Selling And Delivering Ads In Display Partnership
a blog post from Microsoft. The relationship, which first came to light in September of last year, is partly a reaction to Google’s...

Bing & Facebook See Deeper Search Integration With “Linked Pages”
Yesterday a new feature was announced by Microsoft that allows logged-in Facebook users to link related pages to themselves. The new...

U.S. Web Users Averaged Record-High 36 Hours Online In January
That stat comes from comScore’s latest ranking of US web sites, which shows that January was a good month for sites in the Career and...

Hands On With msnNOW, Microsoft’s New “Social Trend Breaking” Site
L msnNOW, a service that aggregates content around trending topics. msnNOW allows users to choose what the hottest trends are by showing...

Seeking To Banish “Distraction” Microsoft Replaces Hotmail Display Ads With Deals
Not all Hotmail users will see the new ads immediately. Microsoft is doing a pilot in which it’s testing consumer response to deals ads...

Gap Widens Between Big 3 Search Engines & Facebook In December, comScore Says
According to the latest comScore Media Metrix rankings, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft sites all saw an increase in unique visitors in...

Microsoft Posts $21B In Revenue, Xbox May Beat Windows Revenues Soon
Google and Microsoft released quarterly earnings. Google posted its highest gross revenues to date but missed analysts’ Q4 expectations....

Microsoft Passes Yahoo With Second-Most Popular Web Properties, Google Still #1
latest comScore Media Matrix report. It covers web activity during November 2011. As you’d expect, shopping sites were prominent in the...

Typosquatters Target Apple, Google & Facebook More Than Twitter, Microsoft
new study from internet security company Sophos, which also found that there’s not as much danger in typosquatted domains as you might...

Google’s Eric Schmidt To Speak At CES, YouTube To Keynote
Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is an annual tradition. For Google, its top executives hardly seem to speak. That’s changing this...




















