Kenneth Corbin

If Yahoo’s blockbuster agreement with Microsoft clears regulatory approval, it seems clear that the search market will undergo a major shakeup. But where that would leave a post-search Yahoo is perhaps a bit less clear. The deal, announced this morning, would see Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) abandon its search technology, outsourcing its operations to Microsoft on […]

AOL continues to feel the pain of the frigid advertising economy, with revenues for the second quarter falling 21 percent from the same period last year, corporate parent Time Warner said this morning. “We are not yet seeing signs of a recovery in demand in this division,” John Martin, Time Warner’s (NYSE: TWX) CFO, said […]

They finally got it done. After several years of on-again, off-again talks about various iterations of an alliance, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) this morning announced a partnership that will see the two team up on search and advertising sales. “This agreement has been a long time coming, and we are so delighted […]

How important is the success of President Obama’s open government initiative? Pretty darn important, according to a new study that applied the well-known American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) methodology to government Web sites. The ACSI, a 100-point scale developed at the University of Michigan, is a way of gauging how well businesses, Web sites, government […]

As it prepares to part company with Time Warner, Internet pioneer AOL is gearing up to once again become a publicly traded, independent company — even it it means having to rely heavily on the online world’s current heavyweight, Google. In a regulatory filing Monday, AOL detailed several aspects of its strategy going forward, which […]

IBM said this morning it has reached an agreement to acquire SPSS, a publicly traded firm based in Chicago that specializes in sophisticated business analytics, for $1.2 billion. The Armonk, N.Y.-based computing giant said the acquisition aims to shore up its Information on Demand (IOD) unit by moving further into an area it refers to […]

Could the worst be behind us? The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is set to deliver some hopeful news to the IT industry this week, when it plans to release a report highlighting some early signs of a recovery, according to the New York Times. The OECD, a multinational economic forum based in […]

The blogosphere isn’t going to like this one. In an effort to tighten the screws on how its content is used on the Web, the Associated Press is planning to develop what it’s calling a news registry that will track news articles to “ensure compliance with terms of use.” AP promises to bundle its news […]

The Senate today voted to confirm Democrat Mignon Clyburn and Meredith Attwell Baker, a Republican, to serve on the Federal Communications Commission, filling the last two open spots on the five-person panel. Both confirmations were expected. Clyburn and Baker join the FCC at a time when the agency is headed for what many critics hope […]

For the last several months, a tsunami of media hype has washed over Twitter. And yet, for all that saturation, many folks are left scratching their heads, wondering what, exactly, Twitter is. Well, it seems that Twitter’s senior management has realized that disconnect, and is planning to take the wraps of a redesigned main home […]