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Today’s the first day of SMX Advanced 2008 in Seattle, and the President of Microsoft’s Platform & Services Division, Kevin Johnson, announced the release of adCenter Desktop Beta only moments ago. Traditionally, the only means for managing adCenter campaigns was through a web browser, which could be quite tedious and inefficient for large or [...]

Last week, Hitwise announced the latest figures of March’s U.S. search engine searches based on a sample of 10 million U.S. Internet users. Google achieved an all-time high, while the other G.Y.M. members (Yahoo and Microsoft) sunk to all-time lows. The results are summarized below.
Percentage of U.S. Searches Among Leading Search Engines

March 2008

February 2008

March 2007

Google

67.25%

66.44%

64.13%

Yahoo

20.29%

20.59%

21.26%

MSN [...]

Today, the press and blogosphere learned that Microsoft’s CEO had sent a public letter to Yahoo’s Board of Directors last Friday, with a three week time-frame for them to come to a buyout agreement. The letter essentially attempts to justify the initial offer of $44.6 billion , and threatens to take the offer directly [...]

After over a year of acquiring JotSpot, a software company that specialized in enterprise social software, Google has finally launched Google Sites - a renaissance of JotSpot with Google branding.
Google Sites screenshot:

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It’s official. Microsoft’s $44.6 billion offer (in both cash and stock) for Yahoo has been rejected. This bid has caused a great stir in the search community as well as the larger business world in general.
Google tried to derail the possible Yahoo takeover by citing anti-trust concerns. Okay, Microsoft is well known for its anti-trust [...]