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Microsoft shares fall after earnings news, analysts react

Microsoft's continued series of dubious acquisitions, sloppy pursuit of google and failed technical execution may finally be catching up to the company. Stock down to $25.00 a share. The stock has failed to show growth from its heights in 99 and 00 (like many other tech boom stocks).

Yahoo's Build Your Own Search Service

Yahoo opens up their search technology for entrepreneurs to take on Google. Why start from scratch? I wonder if this is the sort of thing Microsoft might consider unprofitable when they purchase the company - and kill this innovative platform.

New Google Friend Connect Tool Helps Sites Be More Friendly

Google is introducing a Web site tool called Friend Connect today that promises to extend the reach of social networks such as Facebook to any site that wants to use the tool.

Google's Shareholders Vote to Continue Censorship in China

Google [has been] coming under fire for operating a version of its search engine that complies with China's censorship rules. Google argues that it's better for it to have a presence in the country and to offer people some information, rather than for it not to be active in China at all... [S]hareholders and rights groups including Amnesty International... continue to push Google to improve its policies in countries known for human rights abuses and limits on freedom of speech... Sergey Brin, cofounder and president of technology for Google, abstained from voting on either of the proposals. 'I agreed with the spirit of these proposals,' Brin said. But he said he didn't fully support them as they were written, and so did not want to vote for them.

Congress Gets Their Own Piece of YouTube to Host Videos

YouTube has promised a commercial-free zone in the near future to help Congress deal with the problem of hosting campaign videos that were technically breaking the rule of not redirecting constituents to a commercial site.

Flickr Flicks at Video

What's the big deal? Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo, is hardly about to slay the Goliath that is Google's YouTube. But while this may not sound like an online revolution, it does significantly enhance the Flickr experience for its 42 million monthly visitors. Kakul Srivastava, the company's director of product management, calls these short videos 'long photos' moving snapshots that people can take with their point-and-shoot digital cameras.

Google Previews App Engine

Google launches hosted app engine framework. Like Amazon S3 but more integrated into Google's services. Like the Windows API, but for the 21st century. I think Microsoft just lost the battle for the Web platform.

Inteligentaindigena Indigenismo : CIA enlists Google's help for spy work - Times Online

Google has been recruited by US intelligence agencies to help them better process and share information they gather about suspects.

Newspaper Ad Network Shuns Google, Yahoo, MS

The New York Times, and the Tribune, Gannett, Hearst companies have launched their own ad network, called QuadrantOne. It will let advertisers place ads on media sites in 27 major markets, and let them target readers by content type, demographic information, and online behavior. Notably absent from the deal: Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.

Google criticizes Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo!, calling it 'tr

But Google is painting a starkly different picture, asserting that Microsoft will be able to stifle innovation and leverage its dominating Windows operating system to set up personal computers so consumers are automatically steered to online services, such as e-mail and instant messaging, controlled by the world's largest software maker.

Google reshapes philanthropy

Google is reshaping philanthropy by treating it as an exercise in venture capitalism. But by investing in companies it raises questions about competition.

Google Confirms Intent To Bid for 700MHz Spectrum

'We believe it's important to put our money where our principles are,' Eric Schmidt, Google's chairman and CEO, said in a statement. 'Consumers deserve more competition and innovation than they have in today's wireless world. No matter which bidder ultimately prevails, the real winners of this auction are American consumers who likely will see more choices than ever before in how they access the Internet.'"

Google Has Even Bigger Plans for Mobile Phones

The company is gearing up to make a serious run at buying wireless spectrum, a chunk of the airwaves that can be used to provide mobile phone and Internet services, in a Federal Communications Commission auction in January. Google is prepared to bid on its own without any partners, say people familiar with the matter. It is working out a plan to finance its bid, which could run $4.6 billion or higher, that would rely on its own cash and possibly some borrowed money.

Will Success, or That Google Money, Spoil Firefox?

In trying to build on this success, the Mozilla Foundation has come to resemble an investor-backed Silicon Valley start-up more than a scrappy collaborative underdog. Siobhan O Mahony, an assistant professor at the School of Management of the University of California, Davis, calls Mozilla the first corporate open-source project.

Details Revealed: Google OpenSocial To Launch Thursday

OpenSocial is a set of three common APIs, defined by Google with input from partners, that allow developers to access core functions and information at social networks: 1) Profile Information (user data) 2) Friends Information (social graph) and 3) Activities (things that happen, News Feed type stuff)