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Yahoo USA and Canada Search now powered by Bing
Yahoo US and Canada now has its search results powered by Microsoft’s Bing search engine. Yahoo will also be moving its advertisers across to Microsoft’s adCenter platform but that is still very much a work in progress. more to come as we hear local Australian news on this venture.
Read More | ShareHistory of Apple [INFOGRAPH]
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Here is a cool infograph showing you how Apple has grown as a company from being founded in 1976 to today. 3 men – Jobs, Wozniak and Wayne created the company on April 1, 1976. Interestingly enough Apple now has a market capitalisation bigger than Mircosoft yet only has 1/3 of Microsoft’s annual profit. hmm? […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft Revenue Surges thanks to Office 2010 and Windows 7
Windows 7 was released to consumer in October 2009 and 9 months later 175 Million copies have been sold. This takes the title as the fastest selling Operating System in History. According to Microsoft in their last quarter they have $16.04 billion in revenue, a 22% increase. During the 2009-2010 Fiscal year Microsoft’s revenue was […]
Read More | ShareMicrosoft to Give a Free Windows Phone 7 Device to Every Employee
Quick Update on Microsoft’s Windows 7 Phone. Microsoft is now going to give every employee in certain operation department around the world a free Windows 7 Phone. Considering that Microsoft hires almost 100,000 people globally this will be a great way to get phone out in the tech community. If you know someone who works […]
Read More | ShareWindows Phone 7 In Depth: A Fresh Start for Microsoft
The Windows 7 Phone is a fresh start for Microsoft. Microsoft can use this device as a foundation to build something totally new, and it’s very much different to any other phone you’ve used. The phone utilises and manages many of the different Microsoft products and services – Bing, Xbox Live, Zune to name a […]
Read More | ShareInteresting Facts about Microsoft
Microsoft is still probably the most dominant computer company in history to date. Here are some interesting facts about Microsoft you may not have known: – The average developer for a Microsoft developer is $106,000 USD. – Microsoft has split its stock nines times since it went public back in March 1986. Generally a company […]
Read More | Share10 Reasons Why Facebook wont Enter the Search Market
Facebook is very close to hitting 500 million users worldwide – 500 million users who spent a lot of time on the site. Many people are questing if Facebook could become a viable search engine with the mass following they currently have. Getting people to come to Facebook and making it their default place for […]
Read More | ShareeBay to use Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Environment
eBay is the largest online shopping site in the world with 200 million listings globally at any one time. eBay is used to solving complex scaling problems but they are now looking for the most effective computing infrastructure that allows automatic scaling of their computing / hosting requirements. As a result eBay is going to […]
Read More | ShareMySpace Google Agreement up for Renewal
It is believed News Corporation is in discussions with Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo about replacing MySpace’s search engine advertising agreement. Google has the current agreement which is expected to expire in August. The agreement is $300 million/ year in revenue for MySpace and it very unlikely they will get anywhere near this figure going forward. […]
Read More | ShareAmazon Cloud environment down-time
Amazon.com has one of the most sophisticated cloud computing environments today (along with Microsoft). This enables the company to scale their computing requirements and resources as and when they need. During holiday periods of high traffic they can easily boost the hardware required to keep their site operational and speedy. Last Tuesday Amazon.com had a […]
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