Microsoft Nets Ad Deal With Discovery Channel

Microsoft is running its first ad campaign that simultaneously combines Internet, mobile and video game ads to promote the Discovery Channel's fifth season of the fishing documentary "Deadliest Catch." Microsoft says the one-day campaign with the Discovery Channel has enabled it to sell 90 percent of its advertising inventory. The advertising campaign will be on MSN, MSN Mobile, Windows Live Hotmail, Microsoft Live Search and…

Google Isn’t Dominating the News Market

In case you’ve missed the kerfluffle recently, the AP is rather dissatisfied with their relationship with the Internet, and Google in particular. Google is everyone’s favorite villain these days.

Microsoft Employees Demonstrate Fondness For Google

There once when a time when it was a very bad idea for American autoworkers to own foreign vehicles.  A lone Toyota in the employee parking lot might, according to some stories, get mysteriously overturned.  Fanatical Microsoft employees shouldn't even think about enforcing a similar rule set, though, because almost half of the corporation's workers use Google. 

Facebook Use Impacts Students Grades

College students who frequently use Facebook spend less time studying and have lower grade point averages than students who are not members of Facebook, according to a new study from Ohio State University. More than three- quarters of Facebook users said their use of the social networking site did not interfere with their studies.