As Microsoft and Yahoo! continue to entertain us with what is becoming great high theatre, we’ve been hearing a couple of themes repeated over and over by the bloggers and journalists.  First, that this acquisition is some kind of desperate …

When we wrote about Omar Shahine’s hijacked email account last night, we showed it around a little and heard of some problems regarding password reset emails.  Apparently some users are receiving emails informing them that there has been a request …

Hoo boy another press release (via BetaNews)! This time it’s Yahoo! announcing an exclusive deal with T-Mobile in Europe to use Yahoo! oneSearch as its exclusive search provider.  While of course this fits into the realm of Windows Live …

Wow don’t really know what to say about this.  Omar Shahine, a Lead Program Manager for Hotmail, who we’ve interviewed and had numerous conversations with about Hotmail, has apparently had his email account hijacked. Omar posted this tonight:

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Microsoft has just announced its version 2 of Office Live Small Business (and no, Henry Blodget, its not an online version of Office), the website management suite of tools for building and managing a small business online presence.  According …

Quite a bit of Microsoft news coming out of the Mobile World Congress 2008, held in Barcelona, Spain.  The most recent news is a free Technology Preview of MSN Direct, the technology behind Spot watches and MSN Direct radios …

The latest search market share numbers for January show a slight decline for MSN/Live Search, a nosedive for Yahoo!, and more steady increases for Google, according to an entry in the Compete.com blog.

We compared Compete, Nielsen, and …

Gatineau, the code name for the web analytics beta run as a tab in Microsoft adCenter, will soon be available outside the US, in the UK, France, and Canada.

The service features fancy graphics, integrated demographics data for web …

Michael Arrington at TechCrunch is reporting that Yahoo! is holding a special board of directors meeting "to determine, effectively, the fate of the company". No one has stepped up to save Yahoo! from Microsoft, according to Arrington, with SoftBank bowing …

Microsoft continues to invest in Virtual Earth, especially in the area of 3D, announcing yesterday it has acquired Caligari, makers of trueSpace, a 3D modeling program.  Last December, Microsoft also acquired MultiMap, a London based mapping service, and in …