Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, is to join the <i>Huffington Post</i> as the media firm adds big names to its roster following its takeover by AOL.
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/ 9 February 2011
Arianna Huffington must be smiling from ear to well groomed ear right now. You would be too if you’d just suckered a struggling internet giant.
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/ 7 February 2011
AOL has agreed to purchase the <em>Huffington Post</em> for $315-million, the United States internet company announced on Monday.
Time Warner and AOL are to go their separate ways by the end of the year, a decade after the pair came together in a disastrous deal.
Google on Monday unveiled Google Health, a long-anticipated United States health information service that combines the leading web company’s classic search services with a user’s personal health records online. The password-protected service stores a user’s basic medical history and gathers relevant information connected to their health conditions.
Yahoo! faced growing pressure on Sunday to find an alternative strategy to Microsoft’s ,5-billion takeover offer after the software maker walked away over a disagreement on price. Yahoo! shares could fall by more than 30% on Monday over the breakdown of talks.
Microsoft walked away from its bid to buy Yahoo! on Saturday after the internet company turned down its offer to raise the price by -billion to ,5-billion. Microsoft’s offer was for a share but Yahoo! would not lower its demand below , Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said.
He told his wife he’d gone fishing. But when a photograph of Dick Cheney, the United Vice-President, appeared on the White House website, the smile on his face and the reflection in his sunglasses left some questioning his catch. The reflection appears to show the double image of a naked woman cavorting before him.
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/ 28 February 2008
Google will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that is likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the internet search leader. The pilot project will involve 1 500 to 10 000 patients at the Cleveland Clinic in the United States.
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/ 14 February 2008
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (News Corp) is negotiating to rescue embattled internet company Yahoo! through an alliance that could set up a heavyweight business showdown between the Australian-born media mogul and Microsoft’s Bill Gates. News Corp has begun tentative talks about merging its online division with Yahoo!.
Yahoo! has introduced new features for its popular web-based email program, including software that allows computer users to type text messages on a keyboard and send them directly to someone’s cellphone. The enhancements make it easier to send email, instant messages or SMSs from a single website.