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Microsoft To Expand Hosted Services In 18-Country Global Push
Lane_R_Ellis, 8:19 pm on Mar. 2, 2009 (utc 0)
Microsoft has made its hosted business applications available to users in 18 countries outside the United States with the Monday release of a trial version expected to go on sale in April, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant announced at the CeBIT trade show in Germany.
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Microsoft Recite Hones Voice Searching Features At Mobile World Congress
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:07 pm on Feb. 16, 2009 (utc 0)
Microsoft has begun a public test of Recite, a new mobile phone application that records and searches for voice recordings, the Redmond, Washington-based technology giant announced Monday in Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress trade show.
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Microsoft Woos Users Of Rival Browser Firefox With Live Search Plug-in
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:43 pm on Jan. 30, 2009 (utc 0)
Microsoft, the maker of the popular Web browser Internet Explorer, has released a free tool for users of Mozilla Corp.'s open source rival browser Firefox that provides search engine suggestions for Live Search, the Redmond, Washington-based software maker's search service.
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Yahoo Prepares Earnings Release As Microsoft Reaffirms Desire For Search Deal
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:18 pm on Jan. 23, 2009 (utc 0)
While Yahoo prepared for the Tuesday release of quarterly earnings that are expected to show continued poor financial performance, the Web pioneer faced uncertainty caused by persistent public statements from Microsoft surrounding a search advertising deal.
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Microsoft Doubts Google Apps Will Derail Office Software Dominance
Lane_R_Ellis, 8:57 pm on Jan. 16, 2009 (utc 0)
Microsoft does not expect to loose a significant share of its lead in the lucrative business software market to competing Web-based applications offered by Google, despite the Internet search leader's plan announced Wednesday to sell its Google Apps service through resellers for the first time.
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Microsoft Live Search Tests Next Generation Web Crawler
Lane_R_Ellis, 7:55 pm on Dec. 12, 2008 (utc 0)
Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft has begun testing the next generation of its Web crawler application that will better discover and index online information for inclusion in the software maker's search engine Live Search, the company announced Thursday.
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Microsoft Seeks Live Search Boost From Former Yahoo Search Leader Qi Lu
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:59 pm on Dec. 11, 2008 (utc 0)
By hiring former Yahoo search and advertising vice president Qi Lu last week, Microsoft added a man who plans to use his 10 years of experience at Yahoo to invigorate Microsoft's search engine Live Search as it attempts to battle search leader Google.
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Microsoft Updates Windows Live Platform With Social Networking Additions
Lane_R_Ellis, 12:02 am on Dec. 3, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft has updated its Windows Live platform with a series of new features that it hopes will move it closer to being a Facebook-like social networking Web destination, the Redmond, Washington-based software maker announced Tuesday.
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Microsoft Live Image Search Taps Virtual Earth Satellite Views
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:32 pm on Oct. 27, 2008 (utc 0)
Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft has added satellite images from its Virtual Earth online mapping service to the software giant's search engine Live Search, as a new feature of its image searching system, the company announced late Friday.
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Microsoft Tests Search Sharing And Customization Tool With New "U Rank"
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:43 pm on Oct. 20, 2008 (utc 0)
Redmond, Washington-based software maker Microsoft has begun a public test of a new online tool for customizing search results and sharing them with social networks Web sites, with the announcement of "U Rank."
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Microsoft Global Enterprise Search Design Center Moving To Norway
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:37 pm on Sep. 30, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft plans to base its primary research and development operations for enterprise search in Norway, chief executive Steve Ballmer said Tuesday while in Norway as part of a multi-nation trip in Europe.
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Microsoft Live Search Shows Off First Powerset-Based Additions
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:14 pm on Sep. 18, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft has unveiled the first improvements resulting from its July purchase of search engine startup Powerset, adding features based on Powerset technology to the Web's third most popular search engine, Microsoft's Live Search.
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Microsoft Uses New Interactive Photos To Attract Live Search Users
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:58 pm on July 31, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft has changed the look of its Internet search engine Live Search, adding a background photograph that contains several clickable areas in an effort aimed at attracting more people to the third most used search engine in the United States.
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Microsoft Buys Semantic Search Specialist Powerset
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:39 pm on July 2, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft has purchased San Francisco-based Powerset, an Internet search engine startup founded in October 2005 that specializes in so-called semantic search techniques.
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Microsoft Signs Video Network YuMe As Standby Ad Provider
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:03 pm on June 16, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft has struck an online video advertisement deal with Redwood City, California-based startup ad network YuMe that will that will see the Redmond, Washington-based software giant use YuMe as a backup to serve online ads for its unsold inventory.
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Microsoft Strikes Search Deal With Hewlett-Packard
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:08 pm on June 2, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft has struck an exclusive search distribution deal that will add a custom toolbar featuring its Live Search on all new consumer computers made by the world's biggest PC manufacturer Hewlett-Packard beginning in January 2009.
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Microsoft Abandons Live Search Book and Academic Projects
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:09 pm on May 27, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft has abandoned its efforts to scan books and academic journals and will shut down Live Search Books and Live Search Academic as part of a shift towards focusing on areas of Internet search that have "high commercial intent."
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Rebate Move Tailors Microsoft Search Site To Shoppers And Travelers
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:05 pm on May 21, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft has added online travel comparison and shopping services to its Live Search Web search engine, and introduced a rebate program that pays United States users money for purchases made using the new Live Search Cashback shopping service.
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Bill Gates Says Microsoft To Pursue Independent Paths As Its Bankers Contact Facebook
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:16 pm on May 7, 2008 (utc 0)
In the wake of its unsuccessful takeover bid for Web pioneer Yahoo, Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft will focus on the pursuit of "independent paths," according to co-founder and chairman Bill Gates speaking in Tokyo Tuesday.
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Microsoft Withdraws Three Month Old Bid For Yahoo
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:26 pm on May 5, 2008 (utc 0)
On Saturday, following more than three months of unproductive negotiations, Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft withdrew its offer to purchase Sunnyvale, California-based Web pioneer Yahoo and was left to consider other measures to help combat the increasingly large role Google plays in the current Internet business.
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Microsoft Confirms Farecast Travel Search Firm Purchase
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:25 pm on April 18, 2008 (utc 0)
Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft confirmed Thursday that it had acquired Seattle-based Internet travel fare prediction firm Farecast, in a previously unannounced deal that closed on April 9.
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Microsoft Launches Live Search News Aggregator Site
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:41 pm on April 16, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft has quietly launched a news aggregator Web site that incorporates both top national and international news stories along with local news in a format that also prominently features video news clips, with a new service called Live Search News.
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Microsoft Adds Mobile OS and Browser Features To Improve Smartphones
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:53 pm on April 2, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft has announced upgrades to its Windows Mobile operating system and Internet Explorer Mobile Web browser aimed at making the mobile Web experience more like what desktop users have come to expect, the company revealed Tuesday.
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Microsoft Readies Silverlight adCenter Revenue Sharing Pilot
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:24 pm on Mar. 28, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft is preparing to launch a pilot program combining its Silverlight Streaming online video development platform with its pay-per-click advertising program adCenter, that will allow United States users to earn money through a revenue sharing plan.
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Microsoft Unifies adCenter Community Support
Lane_R_Ellis, 9:49 pm on Mar. 17, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft has launched a new more unified support Web site for its pay-per-click advertising program adCenter, bringing a blog, customer support message forums and other services together under one roof in a support site called adCentercommunity.com.
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Microsoft Buys Internet Advertising Management Firm Rapt
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:53 pm on Mar. 14, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft announced Friday that it has signed an agreement to purchase privately held San Francisco-based Internet advertising management firm Rapt, as it looks to strengthen its online advertising services in the wake of search leader Google, which earlier this week finalized its $3.1 billion purchase of Web ad firm DoubleClick.
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Microsoft Launches Engagement Mapping Online Ad Initiative
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:21 pm on Feb. 25, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft unveiled a new online advertisement-tracking program Monday able to analyze not only a customer's last click before making an Internet purchase, but also the previous ad clicks that may have led to a buying decision, a technology it calls "Engagement Mapping."
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Microsoft Prepares For Yahoo Takeover By Proxy
Lane_R_Ellis, 11:20 pm on Feb. 20, 2008 (utc 0)
Following two weeks of unproductive negotiations, Redmond, California-based Microsoft has retained the services of a proxy contest specialist and has started preparing for a battle over control of Web pioneer Yahoo using an aggressive maneuver to replace the Sunnyvale, California-based company's board of directors.
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Microsoft Live Search Streamlines Web Crawler Efficiency
Lane_R_Ellis, 1:32 pm on Feb. 13, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft Live Search has changed the way its Web crawler application operates when indexing millions of Web sites for inclusion in its search engine, adding features aimed at increasing the efficiency of the process by using compression and other techniques to lower the amount of work required by Web servers, the company announced today.
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Yahoo Turns Down Microsoft's $44.6 Billion Bid
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:43 pm on Feb. 11, 2008 (utc 0)
Internet media pioneer Yahoo said Monday that it turned down Microsoft's unsolicited January 31 $44.6 billion takeover bid, dismissing the offer as "not in the best interests of Yahoo," and because it "substantially undervalues" the firm.
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Microsoft Awaits Yahoo Decision on $44.6 Billion Bid
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:28 pm on Feb. 5, 2008 (utc 0)
While Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft is awaiting word from pioneering Internet company Yahoo on whether it will accept Friday's massive $44.6 billion purchase offer, regulators and online search giant Google are preparing for a variety of possible outcomes.
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Microsoft Proposes $44.6 Billion Purchase of Yahoo
Lane_R_Ellis, 5:40 pm on Feb. 1, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft, the world's largest software company, has made an offer of cash and stock to purchase Internet pioneer Yahoo for $44.6 billion, a 62 percent premium over the Sunnyvale, California-based firm's Thursday stock price of $19.18, representing $31 a share in a move that would reshape the online sector dominated by Google.
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Microsoft's Outlook Strong As Profits Climb, Despite Online Losses
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:40 pm on Jan. 25, 2008 (utc 0)
Microsoft reported quarterly profits that soared beyond expectations and an optimistic financial outlook Thursday, despite economic worries in the United States and $245 million in losses in its online services division, the company announced in an earnings release.
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Microsoft Offers $1.2 Billion for Norwegian Firm Fast Search
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:41 pm on Jan. 8, 2008 (utc 0)
Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft has made a $1.2 billion offer to acquire Oslo-based enterprise data search company Fast Search and Transfer, the companies announced Tuesday in a joint news release.
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Microsoft Giving Away Enterprise Search Server 2008
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:33 pm on Nov. 6, 2007 (utc 0)
Microsoft today unveiled its Search Server Express 2008 software for the enterprise search market.
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Despite Growth Microsoft Trails Google Online
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:51 am on Oct. 26, 2007 (utc 0)
The world's largest software maker Microsoft has posted its best first quarter for revenue growth since 1999, with third quarter results showing $13.76 billion in revenue, a 27 percent improvement over last year, the company reported yesterday. While revenue from Microsoft's software divisions continues to increase, including a 90 percent increase in the unit responsible for the hit video game Halo 3, one of the company's weakest areas is its online services unit, which had a quarterly loss of $264 million, more than twice that in the same quarter last year, with revenue amounting to less than 6 percent of its quarterly sales.
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Microsoft Invests $240 Million in Facebook
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:54 am on Oct. 25, 2007 (utc 0)
Late yesterday software giant Microsoft and rapidly rising social networking company Facebook announced an agreement in which Microsoft will pay $240 million to purchase a 1.6 percent equity stake in Facebook, an investment that values the Web company at $15 billion. Microsoft won the battle with Internet search leader Google to garner a share in Facebook, and will sell banner advertisements on the upcoming global versions of Facebook.
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Bill Gates to Focus on Search
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:30 am on May 9, 2007 (utc 0)
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates spoke yesterday at Microsoft's eighth annual Strategic Account Summit in Seattle, Washington, and spoke about what the future may hold in store for web and search technology.
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MSN Yahoo? Microsoft May Purchase Yahoo
Lane_R_Ellis, 10:12 am on May 4, 2007 (utc 0)
Today the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal are reporting that Microsoft may be close to purchasing Yahoo. No official comments have been issued regarding the matter from either company. Were the two companies to combine, the new Internet giant could hold a much larger on-line audience. Even with their combined customer base the company, perhaps to be known as MSN Yahoo, would not come close to surpassing Google in the important search and on-line advertising markets.
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