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MySpace to Welcome Outside Widgets
MySpace to Welcome Outside Widgets
Oct 10, 2007 4:07 PM CDT

MySpace to Welcome Outside Widgets

Site will match Facebook by opening itself to third-party apps for users

(Newser) - MySpace will announce next week that it's making space for third-party developers, TechCrunch reports. Whispering began in June about the development of MySpace Platform, which will allow outside companies to create applications for the popular social-networking site. In a huge change, developers will also have a chance to include advertising...

Google Adding YouTube Videos to AdSense Stream

Google will syndicate videos through AdSense

(Newser) - Google’s once-inconspicuous text ads are getting a grainy video makeover in the latest attempt to monetize YouTube. A new service today will let websites embed relevant clips amongst AdSense offerings, sprucing up ads in exchange for a cut of revenue. Video auteurs will also get revenue pie, but only...

Tech Firms Court Aging Boomers
Tech Firms Court Aging Boomers
Oct 9, 2007 1:51 PM CDT

Tech Firms Court Aging Boomers

The likes of Nintendo, Microsoft and Google reach out at this year's AARP convention

(Newser) - Technology companies are beginning to target the over-50 audience, as was on display at the 2007 AARP convention last month, where Microsoft, Google, and for the first time, Nintendo all pitched products to the retiree crowd. "This is the first tech-savvy retirement generation...they have been living with it...

Google Stock Passes $600 in Monthlong Surge

Shares reach new high ahead of third-quarter report

(Newser) - Google's stocks have shot past $600 for the first time, kindling investor hopes as the cyber giant eyes a possible buy of ad distributor DoubleClick. CNN Money reports that stocks peaked at $610.26 in New York today and closed at $609.92, a 2.6% gain. The rise extended...

Yahoo Worth More in Pieces, Analyst Says

Company should break up and market individual services

(Newser) - According to analyst Jeffrey Lindsay, Yahoo Inc. would be worth far more if it broke up its different services into individual businesses or at least went in for a radical overhaul. Shares that rose 2.4% yesterday to $27.80 could sell for as much as $39, according to Lindsay,...

Jobs Stats Propel Markets
Jobs Stats Propel Markets
Oct 5, 2007 3:55 PM CDT

Jobs Stats Propel Markets

(Newser) - The Dow and the S&P each set intraday records after today’s unexpectedly good jobs news, and the Nasdaq hit a 7-year high. The Dow closed at 14,066.01, up 91.70 points, and the S&P climbed 14.75 to 1,557.59 after indications that a...

Space Race Goes Private
Space Race
Goes Private
Oct 4, 2007 11:33 AM CDT

Space Race Goes Private

Branson, tech peers are 21st century answer to NASA

(Newser) - Today’s wildest-eyed entrepreneurs were kids when Sputnik launched 50 years ago today, and they’re picking up the government’s slack by taking their inspiration spaceward. Men who made millions in technology are privatizing spaceflight, even egging each other on to compete: Google is offering $20 million to the...

Go to Berkeley Online, for Free
Go to Berkeley
Online, for Free
Oct 3, 2007 6:52 PM CDT

Go to Berkeley Online, for Free

School posts 300 hours of classes on YouTube, offering 'public window into university life'

(Newser) - Now you can get a UC Berkeley education online, as the school has begun posting course lectures on YouTube. Forget the kittens and the exploding soda cans: there are more than 300 hours of videotaped class time at youtube.com/ucberkeley. Said a vice provost of the experiment, it “will...

Microsoft Armed to Fight Google in Ad Wars

Ballmer says software giant plans to make ads 25% of its business

(Newser) - Microsoft is planning to bump up its commitment to the ad industry, proclaiming that within a few years advertising will account for a quarter of its business, the New York Times reports. Buying an internet ad company last August was not a speculative play, CEO Steve Ballmer told a gathering...

Google Phone Rumors Build
Google Phone Rumors Build
Sep 29, 2007 7:12 PM CDT

Google Phone Rumors Build

Consumers would trade free minutes for targeted advertising

(Newser) - Consumers may soon be able to trade free phone calls for targeted advertising, if Google gets its way. Industry experts speculate that the tech giant is quietly developing plans to market cell phones with an ad-based service in exchange for free minutes, BusinessWeek reports. The big wireless carriers, while privately...

Microsoft Rips Google Over Ad Service Bid

Tech titans have different spins on DoubleClick deal

(Newser) - A Senate antitrust panel heard testimony today on Google's proposed takeover of internet ad broker DoubleClick, the Wall Street Journal reports, including a not-so-friendly broadside from Microsoft, a snubbed DoubleClick suitor. Google's chief legal officer said the $3.1 billion deal wouldn't create an internet advertising monolith, as the companies...

Microsoft Updates Search Engine
Microsoft Updates Search Engine
Sep 27, 2007 3:33 PM CDT

Microsoft Updates Search Engine

New features only catch up to competitors, don't surpass them, says CNET blog

(Newser) - In attempt to stay viable in the search market, Microsoft revealed changes to its Live Search site yesterday, the first since it was launched last year. The changes include integration of streaming video into top searches, instant answers on health-related queries, a rating and review index for product searches, as...

Microsoft Plots to Dent Google Ad Lead

Software company touting its new non-search model

(Newser) - Microsoft wants to reinvent online advertising, replacing the dominant search engine model with a tracking system that would tell advertisers precisely which ads consumers had viewed before visiting their sites. The new model is the product of aQuantive, an internet ad firm purchased by Microsoft last month, whose main competitor...

Google's Street View to Respect Privacy Laws

Company promises method to remove I.D. related images

(Newser) - Google allayed some fears yesterday, announcing that its Street View application, which provides street-level images of certain cities, would respect each country’s privacy laws. “In the U.S., there's a long and noble tradition of 'public spaces,' where people don't have the same expectations of privacy as...

Microsoft May Pump up to $500M Into Facebook

Bidding war with Google could net even more

(Newser) - Facebook is in talks with Microsoft about a $300-500 million investment that could give the software company as much as a 5% ownership stake in the social networking site. The deal could boost Facebook's value over $10 billion, and help Microsoft challenge rival Google for Internet advertising cachet, the Wall ...

Microsoft Goes Incognito to Attack Google

Hires PR firm to build opposition to merger; its name is disguised

(Newser) - Microsoft quietly hired Burson-Marsteller to rally opposition to Google’s proposed acquisition of online ad networker DoubleClick—and some are rankled that the software giant’s name was kept out of the pitches. The PR firm sought to convince key players the deal would hamper Internet competition and impact privacy...

Markets Wrap Up Banner Week
Markets Wrap Up Banner Week
Sep 21, 2007 3:37 PM CDT

Markets Wrap Up Banner Week

Best week in 6 months

(Newser) - Stocks climbed again today, closing out the biggest weekly gain since March. The Dow rose 53.49 to 13,820.19, the Nasdaq climbed 16.93 to 2,671.22, and the S&P 500 closed at 1,525.75, up 7.00. The Dow and S&P rose 2....

Feeling Lucky? 'Google Bomb' Polish Prez

Computer-savvy critic faces 3-year jail term for insulting head of state

(Newser) - A Polish man who insulted the president by manipulating Google's search results may get a lot of time to think about what he's done—3 years behind bars. A hacker identified only as "Marek W." made president Lech Kaczynski's homepage the top match for a vulgar term for...

Google Offers $30M for Private Moon Missions

Tech giant bills contest as one small step for private industry

(Newser) - Google announced its own search today: It will award $30 million to private firms whose robotic spacecrafts successfully reach the moon and perform specific lunar tasks. The BBC reports that the search giant hopes to encourage low-cost space exploration. The first-place winner will receive $20 million, second place gets $5...

Canada Tells Google to Back Off
Canada Tells Google to
Back Off
Sep 12, 2007 11:14 PM CDT

Canada Tells Google to Back Off

Privacy commish says Street View could break laws

(Newser) - Canada's privacy czar isn’t as thrilled as your average techie with Google’s Street View feature, the Canadian Press reports: She wants to put the kibosh on the photo archive before it moves north of the border. Jennifer Stoddart has sent Google a letter saying the application “might...

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