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Google annouced they can now deliver real time status and info on your flights directly on the search results page (Google.com). Just type the name of the airline and flight number (e.g. American 123, ua226) into the search box, and they’ll return the most up to date information from FlightStats.com. Pretty cool and a HUGE […]

Online shopping is going places and Microsoft wants a piece of action. According to a their Live Search Blog, Microsoft Corp. has bought comparative shopping search engine web site Jellyfish.com. The site gives a portion of the advertising revenue it earns from the retailers back to the customers, which materializes in a rebate on […]

That’s cool … as long as they keep it open source and FREE! Heck, they should give away the Network Edition now … they want to compete with Google don’t they…?
Yep, they bought them for $350 million cash (read the official blog post here and here … and here’s
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Shares of Yahoo! rose 4.6 percent in after-hours trading, after closing up 3 percent, following the Internet giant’s announcement that CEO Terry Semel was being replaced with co-founder Jerry Yang. Susan Decker, Yahoo!’s advertising chief and reputed heir apparent,was named president. Yang hasn’t run day-to-day operations in more than a decade. (MarketWatch) Semel led Yahoo!’s […]

I read the exclusive today in the NY Post about Microsoft’s desires to acquire Yahoo! in it’s ever increasing attempts to stay compete (try to anyway) with Google. This would indeed be HUGE for Microsoft, but is it truly worth it for them? (I guess it’s really all they can do to try to keep […]

Yahoo said it would acquire an ad network yesterday, in reaction to Google’s plans to expand its own ad network by acquiring DoubleClick.  Now in One Giant Leap, the New York Post reports rumors that Microsoft might want to buy ad management company 24/7 Real Media. Dang!
Full story …

 
Yahoo will begin offering unlimited storage for its free Web-based e-mail in May, the company announced late Tuesday.  The move makes Yahoo the first of the major free e-mail providers to offer unlimited storage, but it likely will not be the last. [via]
Shoot, I may switch back to YahooMail now. I gave up on them […]

It looks like Yahoo gave up on forums “Yahoo! News message boards allowed a small number of vocal users to dominate the discussion”
To Yahoo! News readers:
Yahoo! News is working on new ways for readers to comment on the news and participate in a discussion around it. While we work on our new community features, the […]

Just yesterday we posted about the 2007 being the Year of the Mashup or the Wiki … and here we have info via Gigaom about Yahoo testing a new local mashup in India which can be seen live in BETA testing here.
“Pretty nifty mash-ups to boot: taking bookmarks from Del.icio.us, events from Upcoming, Flickr photos, […]

Yes, these two (Microsoft and Google) will be going head-to-head over every new idea one or the other comes up with (or buys).
Here’s Microsoft’s own version of an Online Marketplace - Windows Live Expo. Visit the “Team Expo” blog here.
See operational Google Base here.