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McAfee strikes Yahoo search deal
News The deal will see Yahoo using McAfee's SiteAdvisor technology to label a variety of potentially dangerous websites with red warning text and links to McAfee information about what risks the site poses.
[May 7, 2008, 11:04]
Yahoo agrees search-ad deal with Google
News Under the deal, Yahoo will select the search terms for which Google will supply ads, the companies said. Google and Yahoo declared a limited two-week search-ad deal in April a success, but even the limited partnership raised antitrust hackles at...
[June 13, 2008, 8:35]
Microsoft and Yahoo agree search deal
News Providing a viable alternative to advertisers, this deal will combine Yahoo and Microsoft search marketplaces so that advertisers no longer have to rely on one company that dominates more than 70 percent of all search," the companies said in a...
[July 29, 2009, 14:04]
Microsoft edges closer to Verizon search deal
News Microsoft is getting closer to a deal to become the default search provider for Verizon Wireless, according to a report on Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal that cited people close to negotiations. Microsoft would share ad revenue with Verizon...
[November 12, 2008, 7:50]
Does Microsoft & RIM search deal herald better usability?
Blog It was about six pm last night when I was sat in the reception of Microsoft’s London HQ twiddling on a BlackBerry that I got news of a new search deal between RIM and Microsoft themselves. Although the news speaks for itself and is arguably a step...
[September 12, 2008, 8:55]
Microsoft, RIM expected to announce search deal
News As part of the deal, BlackBerry users will have the option to use Microsoft Live Search as their search engine of choice within the device's browser. Microsoft announced a deal with RIM back in May to get its Windows Live Messenger and Windows Live...
[September 11, 2008, 8:10]
Yahoo CEO: Microsoft search-deal talks ongoing
News Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz said on Wednesday that her company continues to have talks with Microsoft on a search deal and indicated a willingness to sell. However, a deal does not appear imminent.
[May 28, 2009, 12:33]
Google pulls plug on Yahoo search-ad deal
News When Yahoo and Google announced the search-ad deal in June, Yahoo said the agreement would generate $800m in revenue, and $250m to $450m in incremental operating cash flow in the first 12 months of operation.
[November 5, 2008, 15:23]
Microsoft, Yahoo in talks with EC about search deal
News Representatives from Microsoft and Yahoo have filed paperwork for regulatory clearance in the US for their proposed search deal, but it remains unclear how to proceed in Europe, a Microsoft spokesman said on Wednesday.
[September 17, 2009, 9:51]
Microsoft in Yahoo search-deal talks, says report
News According to a report, Yahoo and Microsoft may once again be working on a search deal. Since Microsoft made its last offer for Yahoo, Yahoo and Google have announced and abandoned a search deal, Yahoo's shares have plummeted to single digits, and...
[December 1, 2008, 9:28]
Yahoo has escape clause in Microsoft search deal
News If Microsoft falters as the exclusive provider for search on Yahoo's network of websites — when benchmarked against Google — Yahoo can back out of the deal. Yahoo has the right to terminate the deal signed last Wednesday "if the trailing 12-month...
[August 5, 2009, 8:54]
Yahoo, Google revise search-ad deal
News The search-advertising deal calls for Yahoo to place Google's ads on its own relevant search pages. Regulators have been concerned that a Yahoo-Google agreement would lead to higher advertising prices and Yahoo exiting the search-advertising...
[November 4, 2008, 6:55]
US was hours from filing Google-Yahoo antitrust suit
News Google is widely known to have pulled the plug on the search-advertising deal with Yahoo only because it appeared that the deal would face a regulatory challenge. Sandy Litvack, the lawyer hired by the Department of Justice to look into the search...
[December 4, 2008, 10:02]
Microsoft, Yahoo prepare for integration challenges
News Microsoft's search deal with Yahoo is the culmination of months of well-documented negotiations, although in many ways, it is just the beginning of the long road ahead. In the coming months, Microsoft and Yahoo will not only have to win regulatory...
[July 30, 2009, 10:09]
Ballmer: Yahoo search pact 'makes great sense'
News Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Friday said a search deal with Yahoo would be better if done sooner than later, but noted that any potential deal wasn't a factor in the hiring of former Yahoo search executive Qi Lu, according to a...
[December 8, 2008, 7:06]
Google forms Twitter search alliance
News Google is to begin indexing real-time Twitter messages in search results in a deal announced just hours after Microsoft debuted integration of 'tweets' into its own Bing search engine. See Google strikes a Twitter search deal, too on CNET News for...
[October 22, 2009, 11:48]
Yahoo-Google deal sparks fresh concerns
News A consumer group, legislators and Wall Street weighed in this week on Yahoo's proposed search-advertising deal with Google. JPMorgan analyst Imran Khan issued a research note on Wednesday that re-examines the potential of Yahoo reviving a search...
[October 30, 2008, 7:41]
Antitrust scrutiny holds up Yahoo-Google deal
News Yahoo and Google are delaying implementation of their search-ad deal to give US Justice Department antitrust investigators more time to look into the deal, according to published reports. Under the Yahoo search-ad deal with Google, which had been...
[October 6, 2008, 9:18]
Google buys YouTube for $1.65bn
News But YouTube later cut a deal with NBC to allow YouTube users to post content from NBC programmes, and it has followed up that deal with others involving companies such as Warner Music and, on Monday, Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music...
[October 10, 2006, 8:35]
Yahoo, Microsoft finalise search agreement
News For more on this story, see Yahoo, Microsoft finalize search deal on CNET News. The deal, first reached in July, still needs to be approved by the US government before it becomes final. But the companies said in October that they needed more time...
[December 7, 2009, 7:50]
