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AP - Microsoft Corp. threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to dump Yahoo Inc.'s board, saying Monday that a successful shareholder rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its bid to buy Yahoo's internet search engine or possibly the entire company.

Bill Gates, who walked away from full-time work at Microsoft last month, was perhaps the foremost applied economist of the second half of the 20th century.

A privacy update being rolled out by google will show if one's Gmail account is currently active from another location, and provides a way to shut off that remote usage. read more

Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: PPC Advertising: Art or Science?; Does google Analytics Share Data?; Carl Icahn Returns to Letter-Writing; and more.

Google says Bell Canada is violating Canadian telecommunications law by slowing internet traffic and is requesting the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) take action against the company."Bell claims its throttling of peer-to-peer applications is a reasonable form of network management. google respectfully disagrees. Network management does not include Canadian carriers' blocking or degrading lawful applications that consumers wish to use," Google said in a statement to the CRTC.read more

Hot on the heels of reader Ziad al-Hasso's clocking of google's Street View spycar in London, Scott MacLeod brings us chilling evidence of the search monolith's ambitions to expose the entire UK to ...

NEW YORK : When media and technology tycoons convene Tuesday in idyllic southern Idaho for five days of dealmaking and outdoor recreation, the mountain air will carry more than a whiff of uncertainty as most ...

Hearst Magazines and MSN are partnering to launch a new food Web site called Delish.com.The two companies say Delish will launch in the fall of 2008 and will be its own brand controlled by Hearst Magazines Digital Media and distributed on MSN.Under the terms of the deal Hearst will be responsible for the design, development and editorial content of the site. MSN will handle the advertising and the distribution of the site's content via the MSN network.read more

The Justice Department has reportedly opened a formal antitrust investigation of the multimillion-dollar Microsoft-escaping deal for google to provide advertising to Yahoo's search engine, with a demand for documents going out to other than the immediate parties, not just the voluntary collection of information Yahoo and Google were prepared to supply.

Anyone who's been dying to own a really fancy t-shirt or coffee mug may be in luck; reports indicate that CafePress has acquired Imagekind, a sort of artists' community and marketplace.read more