Yahoo Checks Out PayPal For Payments

Yahoo and eBay announced the Yahoo PayPal Checkout Program, which users of Yahoo Search will encounter as little blue shopping cart icons in the search results.

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Yahoo Search Drops, As Does Its Stock

Yahoo gave away 0.6 percent of US search engine market share in March 2007, with Google and Microsoft gaining at Yahoo's expense by comScore's numbers. Higher expenses in the first quarter led to shares of YHOO sinking after hours.

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Google Drinks Tonic, Readies Presentations

Google added another piece to their Frankenstein-ish productivity suite by acquiring Tonic Systems for its technology, which will allow Google to add a PowerPoint competitor to its Docs & Spreadsheets product.

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Ask.com Says It Knows Where Jesus Is

I have a sense of humor. But a lot of people don't, not when it comes to Jesus. With that in mind, I think I'd be hesitant (nay, 10-foot-pole distanced) to launch an ad campaign with a Jesus joke in it. Ask.com, it would seem, is just brave enough to try. Billboards and posters have begun appearing in major metropolitan areas (like New York and…

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UK Telecom Comes Down Against Traffic Shaping

It’s often considered lazy writing to start a piece with a quote, but I think that, in this case, it might be necessary.  Wikipedia calls traffic shaping “an attempt to control computer network traffic in order to optimize or guarantee performance, low latency, and/or bandwidth.”  And now that you know that, know this: a major British telecom does not favor traffic shaping.

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