07/02/2008
Google in deal with Brazil to fight child porn
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Internet search company Google signed
an agreement with Brazilian public prosecutors on Wednesday to
help combat child pornography on its social networking site
Orkut, an accord that the company believes is the first of its
kind internationally.
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07/02/2008
Microsoft and Yahoo rise on deal talks report
(AP)
 AP - Yahoo Inc. shares rose more than 5 percent Wednesday as The Wall Street Journal reported Microsoft Corp. has talked to other media companies about teaming up to buy Yahoo's search business.
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07/02/2008
Microsoft seeks allies for new Yahoo move: reports
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Microsoft Corp is preparing a
new bid for Yahoo Inc's search business and has
approached other media companies about joining it in a deal
that would effectively lead to Yahoo's breakup, the Wall Street
Journal said.
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07/02/2008
Microsoft seeks allies for new Yahoo move: report
(Reuters)
Reuters - Microsoft Corp is preparing a new bid for Yahoo
Inc's search business and has approached other media companies
about joining it in a deal that would effectively lead to
Yahoo's breakup, the Wall Street Journal said.
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07/01/2008
Microsoft Buys Search Start-Up Powerset
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Under Powerset's hood is decades-in-the-making natural-language processing technology the company licensed from the Palo Alto Research Center, formerly of Xerox.
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07/01/2008
Microsoft buys linguistic Web search firm Powerset
(Reuters)
 Reuters - Microsoft Corp said on
Tuesday it had agreed to buy Powerset, a start-up that is
working on a new class of Web search that relies on insights
from linguistics rather than simple keyword strings.
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07/01/2008
Free, Bollore in talks with Google over WiMax: paper
(Reuters)
Reuters - French Internet service provider Free and
Bollore Telecom are in talks with Web search giant Google Inc
over the funding of their WiMax wireless broadband network in
France, French daily Les Echos reports.
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07/01/2008
Microsoft, Powerset Confirm Deal
(PC World)
PC World - Microsoft and Powerset confirmed Tuesday that Microsoft will purchase the search-engine startup.
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07/01/2008
Google Boosts Mobile Search With Tele Atlas Agreement
(TechWeb)
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The deal could place Google and its Android Open Handset Alliance in competition with Nokia and its Navteq navigation technology.
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07/01/2008
Adobe Joins with Google, Yahoo to Search Flash Files
(NewsFactor)
NewsFactor - Adobe Systems on Tuesday announced a new initiative with Google and Yahoo to improve search results for dynamic Web content and rich Internet applications (RIAs).
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