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Filed under: Internet , Google , Yahoo! , Technology Google just picked up another promising startup in its effort to gain some ground in the online visual advertising market.

Softbank Corp. is interested in buying stakes in Indian and Chinese companies. The company is eying companies engaged in mobile applications and technology.

Yahoo hopes deal will close in early 2010. Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday that Australian and Canadian regulators have given a thumbs up to the Internet giant's proposed search pact with Microsoft Corp.

Despite a rocky three years, Yahoo is moving forward with plans to build a new campus that would house as many as 12,000 workers in Santa Clara, potentially the largest single real estate development in the city's history.

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday said its chief financial officer is departing at the end of the year and will be replaced by the man now responsible for the books at the division that produces Microsoft Office and other business programs.

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Google has snapped up another start-up in its quest to sell more visual advertising on the Web.

Web search leader Google Inc said it is buying Silicon Valley display advertising technology startup Teracent, which expands its competition with display leader Yahoo Inc.

The Microsoft logo hangs from a window during the grand opening of a retail store in Arizona.

The Mountain View provider of large-scale, concentrated solar thermal steam systems for electricity generation and industrial processes named Thomas Caulfield president and chief operating officer.

The revised Google Book settlement scales back the countries the agreement covers and promises new protections for potential rights-holders and authors .

Struggling Internet search and marketing company AOL may lay off one-third of its total workforce related to its upcoming spinoff from parent Time Warner Inc., the company told regulators this week.

WAM Dubai, Nov 03rd, 2009 : Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, in the presence of Dubai Crown Prince Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, received here today Co-founder, Former CEO and Chief Yahoo! Inc.

A draft environmental impact report is available for public review that outlines the impacts of Yahoo Inc.

Google Inc. and other Internet companies have zeroed in on a resilient effort by a Republican lawmaker to pass legislation that could restrict their ability to take a nuanced approach to operating in "repressive" foreign countries, according to third-quarter lobbying reports.

In anticipation of its December spin-off from Time Warner, AOL may cut one-third of its employee roll.

A lawsuit in Wisconsin is bringing a fresh challenge to the practice of paying for keywords on Google and other search engines to boost one company's link over a rival's. The practice has occasionally prompted a rival to file legal challenges alleging trademark infringement.

Today: Dell and Intuit report earnings. Silicon Valley house prices rise year-over-year for the first time in nearly two years.

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