MSN and MySpace could collaborate on music services
AllThingsD has been pretty accurate on stories they break. And they have a new one.
Microsoft is in talks with MySpace for a possible collaboration between them and MSN on a music service.
MSN could use MySpace Music platform to bring music related services on their network. [...]
Oh noes. MSN Soapbox being shut down… YouTube Wins!
Google has scored yet another convincing victory against Microsoft.
The US based software giant has announced that they are closing down their MSN Soapbox service.
MSN Soapbox was launched as a rival service to Google YouTube. But it failed miserably.
Microsoft has revealed that users would [...]
Microsoft works on integrating MSN with Bing
Microsoft has launched their Bing search engine and it has been a job well done.
The company is now focusing on integrating the Bing experience with their MSN portal which is one of the most visited websites on the web.
Microsoft has already replaced the search box on MSN with the [...]
Google has a 72% market share in US search industry
Hitwise has revealed in its latest report that Google now has a market share of 72% in the US search industry.
They have gained 8% in its share in the last 12 months.
The company had a market share of 72.11% of all U.S. searches [...]
Microsoft launches gossip site Wonderwall.com
Microsoft’s MSN web portal has launched a new gossip website named Wonderwall.
The service is designed to mimic the look of a celebrity magazine and is pretty interactive.
They are using Adobe Flash technology to power this new site. We had expected that it would be running Silverlight instead.
The company said that [...]
Google wants to be out of AOL shareholding
Search engine giant Google is now planning to move out of their shareholding in AOL.
The company had invested in AOL three years ago.
Time Warner said that they have received a request from Google that they want to exercise its “demand registration statement” on the AOL [...]
Microsoft Live Search News Alerts launched
Microsoft has launched a news alerts service for their Live Search News service.
This is similar to how Google News Alerts work.
Users would require to have a Live ID to get access to these news alerts.
They can subscribe to news alerts from any page on the Live Search [...]
Microsoft Live News Search gets RSS Functionality
The developers at Microsoft have now added RSS functionality to their MSN Live Search News service.
They have now added RSS feeds into the browse and search result sections.
It’s pretty surprising that they did not add this vital functionality to the service from the very start.
The service still lacks an [...]
Microsoft closing down their MSN Music license servers
Software giant Microsoft has some more bad news for their loyal customers.
The company has now announced that they would soon close down their MSN Music license servers.
These servers are required by the people who bought music from the now-dead MSN Music digital media store to authenticate their [...]
Google happy to be working with rival Yahoo
Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt has been quoted as saying in the media that they are excited to work in partnership with the internet media giant Yahoo!
He said in a statement: “It’s nice working with Yahoo and we like them very much.”
He did not however reveal any details [...]
