A Microsoft-Yahoo merger could threaten the openness on which the Internet is based, according to a Google executive.
Google's planned acquisiton of DoubleClick has led to US government antitrust committees and liberal consumer groups watching the search giant's moves, just like they did Microsoft's not too long ago.
Google's approach to privacy is a decade behind Microsoft, the Redmond software giant's chief privacy strategist told ZDNet.com.au on Thursday in a video interview.
Google's top brass are meeting Monday to figure out a response to how Microsoft's new overtures toward Yahoo affect Google's potential ad deal with Yahoo.
Google is ramping up its enterprise offering with the planned release of its paid-for email domain hosting service, potentially by the end of this year, to complement a suite of productivity tools.
In terms of applications, the mobile world still feels like a bit of a poor cousin where the Web giants are involved. How long til it shrugs off its rags like Cinderella and bursts into the daylight in all the finery it deserves?
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Google's plans for greener datacentres are being promoted with great fervour, but its calls for greater environmental accountability have some definite limitations.
Google stitched up some gaping holes in its desktop search software recently but the nature of the tool's design means that the contents of users' hard drives will remain under constant threat of exposure.
Is the world going to collapse if we own up to the fact that some Internet-based applications are a huge pain? I doubt it, but not everyone seems to agree.
On Saturday, Microsoft formally withdrew its offer to acquire the search pioneer, at least for now. So what happens next for Yahoo? A deal with Google looks likely.
A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory
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When it comes to Web search, Microsoft is the undisputed underdog, a position it doesn't usually find itself in. Satya Nadella, corporate vice president of search and advertising at Microsoft, explains how the company plans to improve its market share and improve search for the long haul.
In an interview with ZDNet.com.au, Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield shares his thoughts with us about the web, Google, Microsoft and Flickr's acquisition by Yahoo, as well as his recent departure from the US search giant.
Google's approach to privacy is a decade behind Microsoft, according to the Redmond software giant's chief privacy strategist Peter Cullen.
In this episode of Club Builder: a new Firefox plug-in makes browsing more powerful, computer viruses enter orbit, and Microsoft gets a three-way serve of soapboxing.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates says farewell to company employees at a town hall meeting Friday in Redmond, Washington. Gates is stepping down from full-time work to focus on his philanthropic efforts.
ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber talks about Microsoft's $44.6 billion cash-and-stock bid to acquire Yahoo. He analyses Microsoft's strategy in search, the potential impact on chief rival Google, and what it would mean, overall, in the competitive online-search market.
In Silicon Valley, everyone is talking about Microsoft's US$44.6 billion offer for Yahoo.
All Lenovo computers worldwide will soon come bundled with Microsoft's Windows Live software, the companies announced Wednesday.
Google has repackaged and enhanced its business-oriented software offerings into a paid-subscription suite known as Google Apps Premier Edition.
Microsoft's Hyper-V is a solid virtualisation platform that's compatible with a wide range of modern server hardware.
Google is diving further into the Web-based productivity-applications market by offering a new product that combines its online word-processing and spreadsheet programs.
Office 2008 for Mac may be the best pick for business users, but most people can get by with less expensive alternatives.
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