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Dissident Yahoo investor Eric Jackson on Monday urged fellow shareholders to vote for a board comprising five existing directors and four nominees from billionaire investor Carl Icahn’s slate. Jackson, who leads a group of 146 investors holding 3.2 million Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) shares, said that while he supported Icahn fully, he recognized that major shareholders […]

LONDON — Should you reject a friend on MySpace? How do you ward off an old lover on Facebook? Have no fear. Britain’s etiquette bible has come to the rescue for social networkers who are at a loss about how to behave with online decorum. Debrett’s have helped to compile a new set of “golden […]

NEW YORK — Injured athletes may find themselves playing Nintendo’s Wii Fit as part of their rehabilitation. This and other fitness-oriented video games have “great potential” for core strengthening and rehabilitation and may boost compliance with rehabilitation exercises, Sue Stanley-Green, a professor of athletic training at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, told Reuters Health. “We […]

Source: Reuters News Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) MySpace plans a global redesign next week in an attempt to widen its demographics and boost user engagement on the site, the social networking site said on Friday. In what it said would be the largest scale relaunch of a Web site of its size, MySpace will change its […]

Microsoft’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) plan to establish a strong footing in online advertising suffered a big blow on Thursday as merger talks with Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) finally, formally failed and Yahoo said it would let Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) sell search ads on its site. “Google has made an enormous gain strategically,” Sanford Bernstein analyst Jeffrey Lindsay […]

Palm (NASDAQ: PALM) on Thursday said it is on its way to 2 million units shipped of its Centro smartphone, a low-end device whose popularity may be challenged by Apple’s (NASDAQ: AAPL) new, lower-priced iPhone. Centro, 1 million units of which shipped through the end of March, will be sold through Verizon Wireless from Friday, […]

Source: Reuters Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) and archrival Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) said on Thursday they had entered a nonexclusive partnership on search advertising expected to add as much as $800 million in annual revenue. Under the agreement, Yahoo can run ads supplied by Google alongside its own search results and on some of its Web sites […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) are close to reaching a search advertising deal, and talks between Yahoo and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) about a similar deal have fallen through, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. Talks between Microsoft and Yahoo concluded after Yahoo decided to pursue a deal with […]

NEW YORK — The New York Stock Exchange, a unit of NYSE Euronext, has asked the U.S. Securities Exchanges Commission for permission to start selling real-time market data to media and Internet organizations starting in July, seeking to join NASDAQ OMX and BATS Trading, which recently announced similar projects. NYSE plans to launch the new […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Chief Executive Eric Schmidt detailed his theory of competition in the Web industry while saying Google’s famous mantra of “Don’t be evil” is often misunderstood. In an on-stage interview with writer Ken Auletta of the New Yorker magazine yesterday, Schmidt said “Don’t be evil” is meant to provoke internal […]

NEW YORK — Verizon, Sprint and Time Warner Cable have agreed to block Internet bulletin boards and Web sites nationwide that disseminate child pornography, New York’s attorney general announced on Tuesday. The ISPs also agreed with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to contribute more than $1.1 million to help the state combat the spread […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Number-crunchers can rejoice. Google is offering deeper access to the underlying figures for users’ Web searches, giving some insight into trends based on the relative popularity of various words. The Internet search leader is expanding its existing Google Trends service to allow users to see underlying numerical data on the popularity of […]