Facing Free Software, Microsoft Looks to Yahoo
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Internet-centered programs that compete with the core products of Microsoft are a driver of its bid for Yahoo.
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Redmond's desktop software dominance faces an uprising of alternatives from the likes of IBM, Google and Yahoo.
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In an attempt to retain its free e-mail account users and keep its competitors, Google and Microsoft on their feet Yahoo will be increasing the storage size for free e-mail accounts to 250 MB.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. is adding a tool to search computer hard drives as it scrambles to catch up with Google Inc. and stay a step ahead of Microsoft Corp.
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Most of Yahoo Inc's top institutional shareholders may be more interested in making sure Microsoft Corp does not overpay for the Web pioneer, because they have more money invested in the bigger software maker, a research report said on Friday.
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SUNNYVALE, California  - Yahoo Inc. is set to allow outsiders to create new services using the world's most popular consumer e-mail program, in the broadest move the Web has yet seen to enlist independent programmers to build a company's products for it.
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A combination of Microsoft and Yahoo could reshape the Internet landscape for millions of Web users: Would the two companies join their online portals? Could they rethink the desktop computer to integrate Web content more directly?
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The competition between two leading Internet search engines is heating up anew as Yahoo Inc. plans to announce today that it soon will offer a free, high-speed way to search for information
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Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it may  offer a free, advertising-supported version of its basic word  processing and spreadsheet software, in an apparent bid to fend  off a nascent challenge from Google Inc. in the business  software market.
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Business software units of Yahoo  Inc and Google Inc are introducing beefed-up versions of their  Web-based software that compete with Microsoft Outlook,  offering yet another clue why Microsoft Corp made a $45 billion  unsolicited bid for Yahoo.
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By BRIAN BERGSTEIN  IBM Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are teaming up to offer a free data-search tool for businesses, a quirky move challenging Google Inc. and other corporate-search specialists in a blossoming market.
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Yahoo and IBM jointly introduced free software that businesses could use to find information stored in their own computers or on the Internet.
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Microsoft bid may be catalyst for needed change at Yahoo, but Yang and company are expected to fight it, insiders say.
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Yahoo! and Microsoft need each other -- to populate the world with Googlephobes.
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InfoWorld - Yahoo will upgrade its free software suite for mobile phones, improving such capabilities as search, mapping, e-mail, and photo management, the&#160;company announced on Tuesday.
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Now that Microsoft has said it wonât raise its bid for Yahoo and is moving to take the matter to shareholders, it is time for Yahoo to say what it plans to do next.
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Yahoo Inc. said on Thursday it  will begin testing a free desktop search service in early  January, following rivals hoping to extend the reach of wildly  profitable search-related advertising.