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Jerry Yang to step down as Yahoo CEO

Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang is stepping down after a rocky tenure as chief executive of the Internet company. Among, the original Silicon Valley dotcom billionaires, Yang was named CEO in June 2007 after Terry Semel exit.
As CEO, Yang had the task to turn around the company’s dwindling fortunes. However, the rejection of the Microsoft offer [...]

Microsoft Vs General Motors

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated:
“If General Motors had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon.”
In response to Bill’s comments, General Motors issued a press [...]

Major Tech Titans Caught In Indian Gender Dispute

Google India, Yahoo India, and Microsoft Corporation were issued notices by India’s Supreme Court, to respond to a complaint filed by Dr. Sabu Mathew George, whose petition claims that the said organizations were illegally promoting techniques and products for the selection of an unborn child’s sex through advertising and links on their search engines, and [...]

Microsoft, Google, Yahoo sued for sex selection ads in India

Microsoft, Google and Yahoo were issued notices by India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, following a complaint that they were promoting techniques and products for the selection of an unborn child’s sex through advertising and links on their search engines.
There is a deliberate attempt by these companies to target Indian users with advertisements that claim to [...]

Microsoft tries to one-up Google PageRank

Though a distant third place to Google, Microsoft thinks it can teach its rival a thing or two about searching the Internet.
A big part of Google’s rise to search engine leadership was an algorithm called PageRank that assesses a specific page’s importance by how many other Web pages link to it and by the [...]