A Pakistani court has reportedly ordered a ban on nine leading websites, including Google, Yahoo and Hotmail, for allegedly posting blasphemous material.Media reports said the Bahawalpur bench of the Lahore high court on Tuesday directed the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to immediately block nine websites -- including Google, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, YouTube, Bing and Amazon -- for publishing and promoting sacrilegious and blasphemous material.
The US Justice Department has initiated a probe into the hiring behaviour of some of the largest American technology companies, including Google, Apple and Yahoo, says a media report.
Security experts have discovered a malicious programe aimed at tricking users into clicking on phony search results on fake Google, Yahoo and MSN sites, a media report said on Saturday.
The Pakistan government on Friday directed authorities to totally block 17 lesser known websites with blasphemous and anti-Islamic content, even as it asked them to monitor seven other major portals, including Google, Yahoo, Amazon and YouTube, for sacrilegious material. The instructions were issued to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority after an inter-ministerial committee met to evaluate websites with anti-Islamic content.
A proposed online search advertising deal between Yahoo and Google came under fire at a US Senate hearing as Microsoft claimed that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang had himself admitted that the agreement would hurt competition.
Initially, the lure of a big paycheck may feel rewarding. But, over time, professionals find themselves drifting away from family, friends and personal joys, observes Pradeep Pramanik.
Office space owners are looking at good times ahead as rentals are expected to rise due to demand for Grade A office spaces outpacing supply that has been sluggish due to construction delays, long gestation periods and developers' interests shifting to residential.
Yahoo and Google are close to sealing a search advertising alliance that would leave Microsoft out in the cold as it hunts for a way to boost its own flagging search business, according to a person familiar with the matter. Separately Yahoo said on Thursday that talks with Microsoft on the latter's bid for the company were now over.
Online search giant Google has come out openly against Microsoft's $45-billion takeover bid for Yahoo, terming the deal as a threat to openness of the Internet.
These firms have launched a site called Schema.org, which consists of a common set of HTML tags that webmasters would use to mark up structured data on their sites.
Setting a deadline for 22 social networking websites including Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to remove all "anti-religious" or "anti-social" content, a Delhi court on Saturday directed the companies to file compliance reports by February 6.
Internet search-engine giant Google has agreed to give its closest rival Yahoo 2.7 million shares of its stock to settle patent infringement and other legal claims, the companies announced on Tuesday.
Yahoo Inc struck a deal with Firefox maker Mozilla Corp to replace Google Inc as the default search engine on the Firefox Web browser in the United States, a move that Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said will help boost its flagging search market share.
It also launched a new Android app for phones and tablets in 10 languages.
Software giant Microsoft and Internet major Yahoo! on Wednesday signed a 10-year search deal that will see the two firms jointly challenging the dominance of Google in the search business.
The deal will end months of uncertainty about Yahoo's future.
Interestingly, the companies are cutting jobs in India too, even as they have hiring plans in the country. For instance, software giant Microsoft recently said it would create employment opportunities in tune with the growth of the Indian economy.
Yahoo has named Marissa Mayer, one of Google's top executives, as its new President and CEO, making her the third chief executive in a year that the struggling internet company has brought on board to turn the its fortunes.
Yahoo Inc chairman Terry Semelm belittled rival Google Inc's recent efforts to expand beyond its leading Internet search engine, describing the diversification as a haphazard attempt to catch up with his company.
The income tax department on Monday released rules for equalisation levy - a tax on online advertisements that would come into effect from June 1.
The company may also proceed with a plan to spin off more than $30 billion in shares of Alibaba
The growing decline of MTech applicants in Indian colleges is due to multiple factors, including outdated curricula, poor return on investment and lucrative non-engineering alternatives, say experts.
Software giant Microsoft is likely to acquire a majority stake in Yahoo Inc, according to a report in the New York Post.
"Live Search Maps for India will allow users to search for geographical information, places of general interest and business listings both on the PC and on mobile phones," said Microsoft India Consumer and Online Marketing Operations Head Rishi Srivastava. Microsoft's map services will offer detailed listings and street maps for nine cities, business listings across 29 cities and access to highway networks to 20,000 cities and towns.
Citing denial of assistance from United States authorities, a Delhi court on Monday said the proceedings against 13 websites, including Facebook and Google, are "stayed" in a complaint case which accused them of promoting class enmity and undermining national integrity.
The company's revenue fell by one per cent to $1.20 billion in the July-September quarter of 2012.
Mayer, a former high-profile Google executive, was brought in as Yahoo's CEO in 2012 to architect a turnaround that has largely failed to materialise
The Delhi high court on Tuesday asked the Centre to file its report according sanction to prosecute 21 websites, including Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, for allegedly promoting enmity between classes and causing prejudice to national integration.
Google LLC has contended that the information technology rules for digital media are not applicable to its search engine, and urged the Delhi high court on Wednesday to set aside a single judge order which applied the rules on the company while dealing with an issue related to removal of offending content from the internet.
With acquisitions the internet giant is trying to increase its presence in smartphones and tablets.
Internet search giant Google on Thursday said it will be "happy to help" India in implementing a project to provide unique identity numbers to citizens, if asked.
De Castro is the second big appointment that Yahoo! has made from its rival Google. Earlier this year, Yahoo! appointed former Google executive Marissa Mayer as its chief executive.
Legal experts say under existing Indian cyber laws, Sibal cannot do much harm to Google, Yahoo, Facebook or the like. They are not so clear on whether it can be done, or to what extent.
Google Inc is expected to command more than a third of the world's $140 billion digital advertising spending this year
Their move follows an activist campaign by hedge fund Starboard Value LP, which is pushing Yahoo to consider a deal with AOL and unlock Yahoo's valuable stakes in Asian Web companies.
Sriram V Iyer, founder of United Mobile Apps had the good fortune of visiting Facebook and here is a leaf from his diary...
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