Microsoft, Yahoo CEOs Comment On Employees’ Fates

Personnel-related "efficiencies" can be good or bad, depending on one's perspective.  Companies want to save money, of course, and their shareholders also appreciate savings.  But employees like to keep their jobs.  So let's take a look at what sort of effect the Microsoft-Yahoo deal may have.

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What Happens to Yahoo’s Search-Related Developer Projects?

With the big Yahoo Microsoft deal announced, there are still a lot of questions out there, despite the significant amount of information the companies have shared thus far. We know that Bing will become the search engine used in Yahoo searches. We also know that Microsoft will acquire an exclusive 10-year license to Yahoo's core search technologies.

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More Americans Watching Online Video

Americans who watch online video continues to grow at a rapid pace across all demographics, far outpacing the adoption rates of many other Internet activities, according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. More than half (62%) of Internet users have watched content on video sharing sites, up from 33 percent in 2006. The majority (89%) of Internet users 18-29…

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Hulu Traffic Surpasses the Networks for First Time

Compete is pointing to some interesting data, and suggesting that Hulu's "evil plot to take over the world" might just be working. The popular video site has surpassed NBC, FOX and ABC's websites in traffic for the first time. And that was last month. "The networks’ traffic declined during the summer rerun season, but Hulu seems relatively unaffected," notes Compete's Seth Madison.

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What is Responsible Blogging to You?

The Federal Trade Commission has recently taken an interest in regulation of blogs when it comes to bloggers receiving products and writing about them. A lot of discussion has taken place about what it means to blog responsibly.

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