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How To Re-Brand Yahoo Jul. 8, 2009, 1:40 PM On the job for about six months now, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz's strategy for turning around the company seems to be two-fold. She's cutting costs by getting Yahoo out of businesses in which does not belong.

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Google 's been accused of many things but having slight ambitions isn't one of them.From the company's stated mission, to its search efforts, from book search to Android , the company always aims high.

Kim Philby, the notorious British spy who betrayed his country to the Russians, defined espionage as the collection of "secret information ... by illegal means." This handy definition would apply to espionage in cyberspace as well.

Yahoo is touting a data centre design which it says is based on 'chicken coops'. But data centre operator e-shelter, while welcoming the concept, has queried whether the design would be suitable for the corporate sector.

Looks like fireworks weren't the only thing set off on July 4. The Associated Press learned that a widespread computer attack was launched on Independence Day - and that it knocked out the Web sites of several government agencies - including those charged with fighting cyber crime.

Well, here's a provocative idea on the search market. Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney wrote a research note Tuesday on the search engine business which included a summary of a conference call he held for clients with Danny Sullivan , the editor-in-chief of the wen site Search Engine Land , along with Nick Gould , the CEO of the research firm ...

Searchers conducting research on complex issues, such as major purchases or medical treatment options, have had to devise their own systems for taking notes and keeping records -- that is, until now.

British telecommunications provider BT PLC is indefinitely shelving plans to target online advertising to individual customers by using Web monitoring techniques that have drawn privacy complaints.

Yahoo Inc. and the NFL Players Association have reached a settlement over use of players' statistics, photos and other data in Yahoo's popular online fantasy football game.

Breaking the news of Michael Jackson's death boosted weekly traffic at TMZ.com, putting it ahead of all other celebrity news sites for the first time since it posted an exclusive police photo of a bruised Rihanna in February.

The world's biggest software company said the changes to MSN search, which currently uses technology from Yahoo Inc, represents a $100 million investment including the value of foregone ad revenue, research and development and marketing.

The global recession, shrinking advertising sales and fears that the Internet could render big media empires obsolete provide an ominous backdrop for executives at this week's Sun Valley conference.

Microsoft Corp., seeking an edge over Mountain View-based Google Inc. and Sunnyvale-based Yahoo Inc., will include updates from Twitter Inc.

Think of the most popular brands in celebrity news, and you'll probably come up with a small list that includes Entertainment Tonight, US Weekly and People.

Not your typical targets for a music copyright infringement lawsuit: The big companies that run paid online music subscription services.

Microsoft Corp. is making early gains on Internet search leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.

The digital ad industry will announce today sweeping new self-policing guidelines aimed at providing consumers with options for how they want to interact with online ad businesses that gather data about them.