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Wall Street Journal signs up with Microsoft for Contextual and Paid Search advertising

Microsoft will become the exclusive third-party ad provider for the Wall Street Journal network of sites, including The Wall Street Journal Online, Barrons.com, MarketWatch.com, AllThingsD.com and others.  From the press release:

“This deal is a significant win for Microsoft

New Windows Live Community in China

Our good friend PicturePan2 has been working hard on a new project, a new Windows Live Community in China.  I asked him to write up a post on it, in English:

Hello everyone, I am Picturepan2 from LiveSino, also the

Horizon & Windows Live Core – Microsoft registers domains for dogfood

Its been almost a year since we first mentioned Windows Live Core, the project lead by Ray Ozzie to establish Microsoft’s software as a service platform and not much has been said since then. Microsoft hasn’t acknowledged its existance, despite the …

Microsoft reports 30% growth in revenue – Online Services with $1.1bn of costs in Q2

Microsoft just announced its financial results for the last quarter, with record figures being given for the company as a whole. Overall its 30% revenue growth that’s the big gain, giving record second quarter results and this coming straight …

Anonymous MSBob reveals more on Windows 7 and Windows Live – Long Zheng

Our friend Long Zheng, at istartedsomething, received an interesting and long comment on his Windows 7 post yesterday.  While of course we can’t confirm that MSBob actually is an insider, what he says from what we can tell is …

Microsoft to join DataPortability.org

Word is filtering out this morning that Microsoft, along with recent additions Google, Facebook, and Plaxo, will be joining the DataPortability.Org working group, represented by Windows Live Platform Corporate Vice President David Treadwell.  DataPortability.Org seeks to allow data sharing …

Windows 7 details emerge – look Software + Services

Right now everyone is getting excited over the apparent distribution of early Windows 7 builds to external Microsoft partners. One poster over at Neowin is claiming to have installed the build and while unsurprisingly its difficult to verify this, judging …

Comparing Search numbers

Nielsen/Netratings just released its search share numbers for December 07, completing a year’s worth of search numbers from each of the three companies that report them; Compete, Nielsen/Netratings, and Hitwise.  So what can we learn from all …

Microsoft to buy Limelight? asks Blodget

According to Henry Blodget at Silicon Alley Insider, he’s hearing more rumors that Microsoft is poised to buy Limelight Networks, a CDN (content delivery network) from which Microsoft recently licensed technology, apparently to build their own …

Mix08 on the radar

You can tell how close a conference is getting by how frequent the talk about “swag” is. CES and Gizmodogate – done. Some other trade show happening this week that nobody everybody is talking about – done. Next up on our …