Google Chrome overtook Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to become the world’s most popular web browser for a full week for the first time in its history.
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Google Chrome Becomes World’s Most Popular Web Browser
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Google, Mozilla Accuse Microsoft of Restricting Browser Choice in Windows 8
Mozilla has accused Microsoft of failing in its commitment to give users a choice in browsers. Mozilla says Internet Explorer will be the only browser able to run on Windows 8, at the expense of rival browsers like Firefox, Safari and Chrome.
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Google, Mozilla Accuse Microsoft of Restricting Browser Choice in Windows 8
B & N’s Nook to Get App for Windows 8
Barnes & Noble and Microsoft have formed a new partnership that aims to accelerate the digital world's transition to e-reading.
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B & N’s Nook to Get App for Windows 8
Two Tech Giants Reach for the Cloud
The race to the cloud is heating up, and the last week has seen some pretty big cloud-related news from two of the largest technology companies in the world. Microsoft SkyDrive Like other major names in the tech industry, Microsoft has moved to the cloud with SkyDrive, an online storage service that is the meat of its cloud computing services…
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Microsoft Sells AOL Patents to Facebook to Defend Against Yahoo
Microsoft and Facebook have announced a whopping $550m deal under which the social networking giant will be given the right to purchase a portion of the patent portfolio that Microsoft acquired from AOL.
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Yahoo’s Q1 2012 Search Revenue Up 3%
Yahoo’s 2012 Q1 search revenue was $470 million, up 3 percent compared to the same quarter for the previous year. The company’s search sales have evidently steadied after falling 27 percent year-over-year in 2011 Q4 due to the Microsoft partnership.
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Yahoo’s Q1 2012 Search Revenue Up 3%
Microsoft Buys AOL Patents for $1 Billion
AOL is selling more than 800 patents to Microsoft for $1.056 billion in cash. AOL will retain patents related to advertising, search, social networking, content generation/management, mapping and others, and Microsoft will license 300 more patents.
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Google, Microsoft Pitch HTTP Overhaul Options for Speedier Web
IETF engineers are currently discussing steps to overhaul Hypertext Transfer Protocol in an effort to modernize and speed up the 1990s technology. SPDY by Google and HTTP Speed+ Mobility by Microsoft are among the proposals for HTTP 2.0.
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Google, Microsoft Pitch HTTP Overhaul Options for Speedier Web
Google Chrome Briefly Steals Browser Lead From Internet Explorer
Google’s Chrome browser recently became the most popular system in use on the web, overtaking Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) for the first time, before falling back into second place, due to heavy weekend usage in India, Russia, and Brazil.
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AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo Kick Off Display Ad Deal
The ménage à trois in display advertising among Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL has started on schedule.
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AOL, Microsoft, Yahoo Kick Off Display Ad Deal