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The Thompson Crisis: Sloppy Whopper or Poor Career Personal Hygiene? May 11, 2012 
It's been more than a week since Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's resume blew up in his face, and by the looks of things, the Yahoo board isn't bothered by it. They're not bothered enough to fire the guy, anyway. Thompson's still in charge at Yahoo, and a week's worth of morale-melting embarrassment and haranguing from Dan Loeb haven't been enough to change that.
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Bing Makes Triple-Column Play With New Interface Design May 11, 2012 
Microsoft unveiled an update to Bing on Thursday that strongly leverages social networks, including a redesigned interface to provide a three-column look. Responses to queries keyed into Bing will list experts and the user's friends, who can comment on the topic in the right panel. A new feature called "Snapshot" will display useful information about a specific place or topic in the middle column.
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Angry Birds, Mad Money May 07, 2012 
Today in international tech news: The makers of "Angry Birds" report crazy numbers. Meanwhile, Evernote seeks approval from Beijing to open up a data center in China, a step that could help the data-storage giant tap into the world's largest market but also -- if history is any indication -- subject it to government intervention.
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Yahoo CEO's Fishy Resume Creates Big Stink May 04, 2012 
A fresh blight has struck Yahoo, which continues to flounder as management slashes its workforce in a bid to put the ailing company back on its feet. The resume of recently hired CEO Scott Thompson claims he holds a college degree that he never actually earned. The news erupted on Thursday in the midst of a proxy fight for control of Yahoo's board.
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Motorola Scores a Courtroom Coup in Germany May 02, 2012 
Today in international tech news: Germany grants Motorola a big victory against Microsoft. Elsewhere, the U.S. Office of Trade Representatives says that 99 percent of all music downloads in China are illegal, a French group goes to court because Google's autocomplete suggests that "Mad Men" actor Jon Hamm is Jewish, and China plays cat-and-mouse with the myriad terms used to discuss dissident Chen Guangcheng.
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FTC Brandishes Big Legal Gun in Google Antitrust Investigation April 27, 2012 
Interest in the United States Federal Trade Commission's antitrust probe into Google was given a jolt with the commission's decision to enlist seasoned white-collar crime litigator Beth Wilkinson to head the investigation. "When we have the opportunity to augment our team by bringing on a lawyer with Beth Wilkinson's skills, judgment and experience, it is an easy decision to do so," said the FTC's Richard Feinstein.
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Sergey Brin Pounds Fists Against Walled Gardens April 16, 2012 
The concept of the open Web is under greater threat than ever before, Google cofounder Sergey Brin said during a recent interview. The threat is a combination of increased attempts by governments to control the Web, the entertainment industry's efforts to crack down on piracy, and the rise of walled gardens such as those controlled by Facebook and Apple, Brin said.
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Larry Page: The Year of the Big Cleanup April 06, 2012 
Google CEO Larry Page issued a public dispatch on the state of the company Thursday, enthusiastically promoting the Android platform and next-generation search techniques. Page took over as CEO of the company about a year ago.
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In Yahoo Fight, Facebook Not One to Turn the Other Cheek April 05, 2012 
Facebook accused Yahoo of violating 10 of its patents Tuesday, a response to a similar suit Yahoo filed just under a month ago. The two Internet competitors are embroiled in a patent duel that started last month, when Yahoo sued Facebook for 10 counts of patent infringement. The litigation came at a particularly delicate time for Facebook -- its IPO is expected in a matter of weeks.
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Battle for Yahoo's Board Cranks Up a Notch March 29, 2012 
It appears that Yahoo and shareholder Third Point are digging in for a contentious proxy fight.
The companies have been tussling over who will fill four seats on the board of directors, with the two sides clashing on several points, including whether Third Point CEO Daniel Loeb should get one of the spots. On Sunday, Yahoo announced three new independent directors to the board, effective April 5.
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Yahoo May Face Bitter Battle Over Board Makeup March 21, 2012 
One of Yahoo's major investors, hedge fund Third Point, is calling upon shareholders to elect four of its nominees to the company's board. This is just the latest round in what could become a very nasty fight. "There are a couple of things happening," said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. Third Point, which has a 5.8 percent stake in Yahoo, "clearly has concerns about maximizing the value of that investment."
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Google's Great New Adventure March 20, 2012 
Today we would say that the first implementation of PageRank was a form of crowdsourcing. The crowd was early webmasters, and they helped determine the relevancy of Web pages by linking to them. It didn't take long for "search engine specialists" to figure out how to game the system for fun and profit. For more than a decade, these self-styled SEO specialists have been manipulating search engine results with all sorts of tactics.
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Google's Big Fat Search Overhaul: Just Doing What Google Does March 15, 2012 
Google is rumored to be at work on new technologies and methodologies that could significantly alter the way consumers search on the Internet, as well as how brands can expect to see their ads displayed. More emphasis will be placed on semantic search, a process that takes into account the meaning of the search term inputted rather than merely recognizing keywords.
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Google's New Privacy Policy vs. the World March 14, 2012 
Even before Google launched its new privacy policy earlier this month, consolidating separate privacy policies for more than 60 applications, legal issues had surfaced. Now, attorneys general from more than 31 States have accused Google of violating privacy laws because of complaints from users that they were finding ads are popping up on YouTube just after they did a search on Google Maps about the same subject.
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Yahoo Strikes While Facebook's Iron Is Hot March 13, 2012 
Yahoo filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook on Monday, ensnaring the social network heavyweight in a legal entanglement weeks before it's scheduled to go public. The suit regards 10 patents related to instant messaging, advertising systems, privacy settings and methods for customizing ads and content.
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Google+ and the Long Game March 12, 2012 
Google+ chief Vic Gundotra sat down with Guy Kawasaki, cofounder of Alltop.com and founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures, at this year's SXSW convention. The topic at hand: how Google+ plans to remain afloat in the hotly competitive online social network space.
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Pew Study: All Search Engines Being Equally Intrusive, Google's the Best March 09, 2012 
There is no question that Google is the dominant player in the search engine arena, and a new survey released Friday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 83 percent of U.S. search engine users rated Google as their preferred search engine, despite concerns about the company's data-collection and advertising practices.
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Google's Walls Come Crashing Down March 03, 2012 
If you've visited basically any of Google's major services over the last several weeks, you may have noticed a little orange box that pops up as soon as you get to the page, sometimes hanging out right over the spot you wish to click. "We're changing our privacy policy and terms. This stuff matters. Learn more or dismiss."
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Google to EU: Delay? No Way! February 29, 2012 
Google on Tuesday rebuffed a request by a European Union privacy body to delay implementation of changes in the search giant's privacy policies set to take effect on March 1. "[W]e have notified over 350 million authenticated Google users and provided highly visible notifications on our homepage and in search results for our non-authenticated users," said Google's Peter Fleischer.
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White House Looks to Nail Down Online Privacy Regulations February 23, 2012 
Undeterred by its battle to convince Congress to pass the cybersecurity legislation it proposed last May, the White House on Thursday unveiled a proposal for an online consumer privacy bill of rights. This is part of a blueprint to improve consumer privacy protection in the United States.
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