The video download site that media heavyweights News Corp. and NBC hope will become a YouTube alternative for commercial downloads finally has a name: Hulu. The long-anticipated site also has a delayed launch time frame, with an October "private beta" launch. The two companies had previously said th...
A publisher of nude model photography is suing Microsoft for linking to images of its content that have been published without permission by other Web sites. MSN's image search feature links to thumbnails of Perfect 10's content that users can then click on to view in full-size versions, according t...
John Schappert, who helped create and grow the "Madden NFL" franchise of video games, has taken a position with Microsoft's Live interactive entertainment division. Schappert moves to Microsoft from Electronic Arts, following in the footsteps of his former boss at EA, Don Mattrick, who will now be h...
Microsoft managed to post a 7.3 percent increase in earnings for its fourth quarter, despite a mammoth $750 million charge relating to fixes to its Xbox 360 product, as strong enterprise sales helped the company surpass the $50 billion revenue mark for the fiscal year. The Redmond, Wash.-based compa...
For just the second time in its history as a public company, Google disappointed investors with its earnings report, saying Thursday that sales and earnings were up but posting profits that were below Wall Street expectations. The Web search and advertising giant's gross revenue, which does not acco...
Live Earth -- a series of concerts held in cities across the world and streamed live across the Internet -- exceeded its founders' most ardent expectations. The event, held to raise awareness of global warming and climate change, captured more than 10 million video streams -- the most simultaneous v...
The BBC announced Wednesday it will launch its iPlayer on-demand TV service on July 27. Initially restricted to users in the UK, the service will become available to an expanded Internet audience in the fall. "It's a revolutionary service which offers audiences more value, because from now on they n...
Following a 10-day tiff in which eBay pulled out of Google AdWords, the online auctioneer has apparently set its grievances aside and on Friday returned to the pay-per-click advertising program. "We are now slowly turning AdWords back on, in a much more limited way than before," the company said. "W...
Regulators in Europe have given the green light to a planned Internet joint venture between NBC Universal and News Corp.: a Web video repository seen as a competitor to Google's YouTube. The yet-to-be-named venture -- first announced in March following weeks of speculation -- is expected to launch s...
Terry Semel resigned from his CEO post at Yahoo late Monday, stepping aside to let cofounder Jerry Yang take the helm as the portal looks to keep shareholders happy, regain its early dot-com glory and better compete with rival Google. Semel arrived at the Internet company in 2001 with high hopes tha...
More than 12 million small and medium-sized businesses operate in the U.S., and unlike larger enterprises, few of them have the cash to pay a marketing firm to launch an online advertising campaign. In world where the Internet has become perhaps the most powerful tool that companies can use to attra...
Shareholders upset about Yahoo's lagging performance forced CEO Terry Semel to defend the company's market strategy, even as he and other company-backed officers were re-elected to the portal's board of directors. Yahoo shareholders defeated a proposal to change the way executive pay is determined, ...
Microsoft has launched a music promotion effort designed to promote new music artists through its Zune, MSN and Xbox-focused electronic outlets. Dubbed "Ignition," Microsoft says the program will provide a steady stream of new music through online access to exclusive content, free song and video dow...
Microsoft has acquired a minority ownership stake in CareerBuilder.com, extending a partnership between the leading U.S. job search site and its MSN portal, Microsoft said. Redmond will acquire a 4 percent ownership stake in the dot-com as part of an agreement that calls for CareerBuilder to deliver...
Microsoft and Yahoo have reportedly discussed a possible merger or other strategic alliance, a move that would dramatically alter the online landscape and could provide Microsoft with the weapon it needs to better battle with search and advertising giant Google. The two firms have held preliminary t...
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