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SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz put a “for sale” sign on HotJobs on Tuesday, saying Yahoo was open to selling the non-core unit for the right price even though an improving economy could help its prospects. Rates for Yahoo’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) premium online display ads were continuing to pick up after being pressured […]

GEISPOLSHEIM, France — French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday he would not let his country’s literary heritage be taken away by a “friendly” large American company, in a thinly veiled challenge to Google. France is anxious to avoid French-language literature being swallowed by major international digitization projects and is looking to create its own […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union and Microsoft are likely to end a decade-long dispute next week when EU antitrust regulators will accept the U.S. software company’s amended offer on allowing consumer choice on Internet browsers, sources said. Three people familiar with the situation said the European Commission was expected to approve on Tuesday Microsoft’s […]

Apple has acquired digital music service Lala, as the dominant online music retailer explores new models for selling songs. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed by Apple (NASDAQ: APPL), which confirmed the purchase on Friday. ITunes is the leading music service in the United States with more than 70 percent of all digital music sales […]

The world’s top cell phone maker Nokia will drastically cut back on the number of different smartphone models it rolls out next year as the Finnish firm tries to shrug off new rivals Apple and Research In Motion. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) continues to sell more smartphones than any of its rivals, but has lost ground […]

Yahoo expects “exponential” growth in mobile advertising even as the overall market is only starting to emerge from its deep downturn, a top executive of the Internet media company said on Thursday. Yahoo’s mobile advertising business, while small, has seen substantial growth, and the company is focused on boosting the number of mobile users as […]

Friendster, one of the world’s earliest social networking sites, will be sold to an Asian buyer by the end of December for at least $100 million, a source familiar with the matter said. Friendster, which predates Facebook and MySpace in the social networking space was founded in 2002. But it quickly lost ground to other […]

Yahoo will let users of its e-mail, photo-sharing and other online products link their content and activities directly into Facebook, the world’s No. 1 Internet social network. Yahoo’s support of the Facebook Connect service, which it said it expects to begin in the first half of 2010, represents an important move in Yahoo’s efforts to […]

Michael Jackson’s death thrust the singer to the top of yahoo.com Internet searches in 2009, putting an end to Britney Spears’ four-year reign and helping bump the President Barack Obama from the top 10 list. Although the year was dominated by recession, the most clicks still went to what distracts Web surfers. NASCAR, actress Megan […]

Nokia plans to install Linux software on just one new smartphone next year, a source told Reuters on Monday, dampening prospects of a quick makeover of the Finnish group’s struggling product line-up. But a spokesman said the world’s biggest handset maker had no plans to sell its manufacturing plants, clarifying earlier comments by an executive […]

Before deciding where to buy a laptop for his daughter on Black Friday, Nate Bryan was scouring the web for deals. But he was not just looking at retailers’ Web sites. “I use Twitter and Facebook a lot for Black Friday,” he said, referring to the day after Thanksgiving when retailers open their doors early […]

LinkedIn, the world’s biggest professional social network, will probably pursue an initial public offering some time but not in the near future, co-founder and executive chairman Reid Hoffman told Reuters. “Probably at some point a balance will occur when that’s the right thing. That will not occur in the near term,” Hoffman said at a […]