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Blog Posts Tagged 'acquisitions'*Yahoo! - Microsoft search deal approved and imminentPosted on 19th February 2010 at 5:14 pm by Simon Howland
The Yahoo! - Microsoft deal has now been passed by the European Commission, paving the way for it to be implemented within the "next few days" according to an official press release. Are we losing two of the top four search engines?Posted on 30th July 2009 at 9:06 am by Ian Macfarlane
Bing and Yahoo! have agreed a deal which will essentially kill off the Yahoo! search engine and merge its technology with Bing's. At the same time, we have discovered that Ask Jeeves has been serving Google-crawled pages. Are we going to lose half of the top four search engines? Microsoft and Yahoo Deal OfficialPosted on 29th July 2009 at 4:13 pm by Rik Stewart
Microsoft and Yahoo! have announced a deal that changes the search landscape considerably. Will Google buy Valve?Posted on 17th September 2008 at 3:44 pm by Ian Macfarlane
Rumours are going round that Google might buy Valve, and through it acquire the leading games distribution platform, Steam. What would this mean for the industry? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's bid for Yahoo!Posted on 5th February 2008 at 2:57 pm by Ian Macfarlane
Microsoft have made an audacious hostile bid to buy Yahoo! - will they succeed, what will the combined company look like and what does this mean for the future of the search industry? Big News for NetrankPosted on 28th January 2008 at 10:04 am by Manley
This blog has been somewhat quiet of late, but we have been very busy, and are pleased to announce that Netrank is now part of LBi. Are Google the irresistible force and the immovable object?Posted on 26th November 2007 at 4:24 pm by Chris Dugdale
Google seem utterly unassailable as king of the search hill, but equally their tide of acquisitions seems equally unstoppable. What are they up to and where can it lead? Search engine sideshows; product placement or data mines?Posted on 17th November 2007 at 2:42 pm by Manley
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