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  • Microsoft to buy Yahoo?

    Friday's dramatic bounce in Yahoo's stock on reports of a deal with Microsoft -- later discredited, reflects the pressure facing the third- and second-largest internet companies as they struggle to gain market share from Google, according to analysts.

  • Google buys ad firm DoubleClick for US$3.1 billion

    update: In its largest acquisition yet, Google has agreed to pay $3.1 billion in cash for online ad company DoubleClick, the companies announced on Friday.

  • Yahoo CEO to be paid US$1 salary

    Yahoo chief executive Terry Semel, the highest compensated executive in the San Francisco Bay Area last year at more than US$56.8 million, will receive an annual salary of US$1 through 2008, according to documents made public Friday by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

  • Paid search feels growing pains

    Paid search, the engine that's driving many Internet companies into profitability, is getting a dose of reality.

  • Yahoo shutters enterprise software division

    Yahoo is shuttering its enterprise software division and has laid off an undisclosed number of employees as a result.

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  • Can there be another Google?

    While Wall Street clamours for a piece of the search king, start-ups are trying to fill in the technology niches.

  • IM gets ready for business

    With many corporations banning the software for security reasons, Instant Messenger giants are looking at producing enterprise-friendly programs.

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