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Google prepares free analytics tools
News Though in theory people who are using Google Analytics and competitive services to monitor their ad campaigns could be exposing information to Google on how those rival services work, Muret said Google would not get any competitive advantage from...
[November 14, 2005, 8:05]
Welcome to 'Google on your phone'
News Google is preset as the homepage on the phones. Google has massive brand recognition and a horde of regular users, many of whom have Google as their Internet homepage. Google on your phone' is a service proposition that is easy to understand and...
[October 18, 2005, 18:30]
Yahoo makes Overture worth £1bn
News But Overture had been fighting back against Google, making acquisitions designed to help it offer a broader array of search services. It's a market where search rival Google has been making inroads. Yahoo has also been getting more competitive...
[July 14, 2003, 14:29]
Could "Fremium" social media evolve into a pay once unlimited access model?
Blog I read with interest an article on TechCrunch revealing that the free Google Apps that everyone was so excited about a couple of years back have now been hidden to new users, who are now channeled towards the paid for version of the same if they...
[July 7, 2009, 14:18]
Google clocks up advertiser milestone
News Google's advertiser milestone eclipses the latest number from archrival Overture Services, which Yahoo plans to acquire for $1.7bn (£1.03bn). Google has amassed 150,000 advertisers worldwide, thanks to an aggressive international growth strategy in...
[September 25, 2003, 11:55]
IBM takes on Google with LotusLive iNotes
News The service is priced at $36 (£23) a year per user, while rival software Google Apps Premier costs $50 per user a year. These things matter a lot to the customer," said Poulley, who described Google's Gmail as a "consumer-grade service".
[October 5, 2009, 14:24]
Google's new hire hits back
News The lawsuit reflects how heated the battle for search engine dominance has become, as Microsoft struggles to gain a stronghold in a burgeoning market led by Google and tries to fend off Google's attempts to expand into additional Internet services.
[August 22, 2005, 9:35]
Yahoo ups free email storage limit
News The announcement comes a month after search rival Google said it would launch a free email service called Gmail that offers 1GB of storage, considerably more space than free versions of Yahoo Mail and Microsoft's Hotmail.
[May 14, 2004, 9:35]
Ballmer defends investment plans
News Internet services that compete with Google and others. As for the competition with Google, Ballmer said that one of the keys is having better technology to serve up advertising. The company will also need to bulk up on both development talent and...
[May 2, 2006, 10:00]
Rivals take aim at Microsoft Office
News It approached consulting firm Capgemini to create support and installation services for Google Apps Premier Edition, which costs $50 per user per year. Meanwhile, Google on Monday introduced Google Presentations, an online version of Microsoft's...
[September 19, 2007, 8:21]
Why MSN and Yahoo joined forces against Google
News In my opinion, however, the biggest external driver for this announcement must be MSN's and Yahoo's mutual need to defend themselves in the long term against Google. Google is a relatively recent insurgent into messaging, but it is clearly...
[October 20, 2005, 20:05]
With Google at gates, Yahoo! arms itself
News More recently, Google has added further services that are sure to siphon traffic away from Yahoo! They haven't even figured out how a Google relationship works with their business, knowing that Google is working on beefing up their services and...
[December 24, 2002, 10:23]
Keeping Microsoft live and kicking
News On the services side, meanwhile, Johnson is faced with trying to overhaul MSN yet again, this time transforming it into an ad-funded effort that can compete with the myriad online offerings from Google, Yahoo and others.
[May 19, 2006, 13:00]
Google Talk gets upgrade for first birthday
News As part of a $1bn Google investment for a 5 percent stake in AOL, Google and AOL will make their chat services interoperate. Google is already interoperable with services that use the open XMPP, or "Jabber", chat standard, he said.
[August 16, 2006, 9:55]
Microsoft throws its weight behind the cloud
News Google may have won the search war, but Microsoft isn't about to cede the global cloud to the search engine giant. Google is building a competing ecosystem from the ground up with similar characteristics and a desire to attract millions of developers.
[November 4, 2008, 10:37]
Trend Micro joins the crowd in the cloud
News Trend Micro joins the current vendor movement towards offering or acquiring for online security services, which includes McAfee, Symantec, Microsoft and Google, according to Buss. McAfee has been reselling Postini services for a number of years...
[July 31, 2007, 13:21]
MSN gets on search bandwagon
News In partnership with pay-for-performance ad companies such as Overture Services, LookSmart and Google, major Web portals make money when people click on sponsored listings within search results, a model that has shown to be lucrative for all...
[February 12, 2003, 8:14]
Yahoo! launches advice site
News s move comes as Google, which is steadily moving beyond its search services, has branched into the advices market. Earlier this month Google launched a beta site called Google Answers. Google users pay to list a question on Google Answers, then pay...
[April 30, 2002, 9:03]
Web search for cash brings results
News Overture's services now match those of Google, which is the darling of Web search and has itself quickly achieved parity with Overture's commercial search offers. Ryan outlined his vision for coming improvements to paid search listings, a market...
[March 6, 2003, 10:00]
BT: Google is our biggest threat
News However, while conceding that he did not know the endgame, Ramji claimed that BT "can do anything Google can do" if it moves beyond its traditional role as a supplier of telecommunications services. Google has made some moves into the telecoms...
[June 8, 2006, 13:15]
