Overture Extends MSN Relationship
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Pasadena-based Overture Services, the subsidiary of Yahoo Inc. which provides keyword-based search advertising, announced that it has extended its sponsored search distribution relationship with Microsoft.
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The popular IM consolidation service adds audio and video chat.
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MSN, Microsoft Corp.'s Web portal,  said on Tuesday it will make a big push to stream live concerts  to its users after signing an exclusive global partnership with  Control Room, the company behind the web broadcast of last  year's Live 8 event.
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By Kim Hart, Washington Post Staff Writer  Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. joined forces yesterday on the instant messaging front, allowing users of their systems to communicate with each other and rivaling AOL's messaging system for the top spot.
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I got hold of the beta version of this much hyped up upgrade to the very popular instant messaging client MSN Messenger 7. I installed it on a test machine to see what new things it has to offer me.
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Microsoft Corp., the world's largest  software maker, has expanded its flagship MSN Hotmail internet  email service to include European and Japanese domain names, it  said on Friday.
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GoogleÂs introduction this week of communications applications for enterprises has extended the software battle that has been brewing with Microsoft. And, according to analysts, it will likely prompt an aggressive response from Redmond.
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Overture - So Much More Than Pay Per Click  Overture is known for being the Leader in "Per Per Click" (PPC).Owned by Yahoo, Overture advertisers can reach over 80% of Internet users. If you take  a closer look and pop the hood, you'll find a whole suite of useful tools for ...
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InfoWorld - A Microsoft partner has become the first to offer Microsoft's new unified communications software as a hosted service.
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Beta application is available as part of the new MSN Toolbar Suite.
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Microsoft and Yahoo agreed to a one-year extension of MSN&#39;s deal to show Overture Services&#39; paid listings on its Web sites.
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Yahoo&#39;s Overture Services division has extended its deal to provide ad placement technology to Microsoft Web portal MSN.com, the companies said Thursday.
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Yahoo, disconcertingly unable to&#160;develop a popular social networking site, will try to accentuate the social networking capabilities of Yahoo Messenger when it releases on Tuesday a beta upgrade of this widely used instant messaging service.Among its new features, Yahoo Messenger 9.0 will allow people to invite friends to watch videos or flip through photo albums in real time, sharing those activities as if they were sitting side by side in one&#39;s living room.Made possible by what Yahoo calls an &quot;in-line media player,&quot; this feature is one of several new ones designed to boost interactions among Messenger users.Another such feature is a redesigned &quot;friends&quot; list that provides more space for each contact entry and makes it easier to establish an IM, voice or SMS link with another user.Now the question is whether Yahoo plans to leverage the more than 94 million people who use Messenger and build a social network around that base, giving the company, finally, an answer to MySpace and Facebook.While she wouldn&#39;t provide a direct answer to this question, Sabrina Ellis, vice president of Yahoo Messenger, acknowledged that the service has an inherent social networking component.&quot;In some ways, if you look at it, Yahoo Messenger is a social network in that people have actually defined who their friends are and these are people they communicate with,&quot; Ellis said.The new features, such as the ability to share and watch videos virtually together, will let people deepen their interactions on Yahoo Messenger beyond what has been possible so far, she said.&quot;These elements will really help people develop relationships and expand some of their friendships,&quot; Ellis said.According to comScore, last month Yahoo Messenger had 94.3 million unique users, up almost 30 percent from September 2006 and second worldwide to Microsoft&#39;s Windows Live Messenger with almost 227 million.Still, Yahoo hasn&#39;t been able to find its groove in social networking. It recently announced it will phase out its social networking site Yahoo 360 and migrate its features and content to a &quot;universal profile system&quot; that will more closely tie Yahoo&#39;s various online services together.Asked how Yahoo Messenger will fit within this integrated, centralized platform, Ellis said the IM service will be part of that effort, along with Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Answers and other services.&quot;We&#39;re committed to making sure that all of our users can benefit from all different Yahoo services,&quot; she said.Other new features in the beta version of Yahoo Messenger 9.0 include the following:-- Localized versions for the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India (in Hindi), and Vietnam-- The ability to transfer files of any size, lifting a 1GB limit-- Call forwarding, to send calls from Yahoo Messenger to a mobile phone or landline as a voicemail-- The ability to share photo sets from Yahoo&#39;s Flickr service in real time
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NEW YORK - Yahoo Inc. has agreed to extend its deal to place advertisements on Microsoft Corp.&#39;s MSN sites in the United States and overseas by one year through June 2006, Yahoo said Thursday.
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Microsoft announced a major support upgrade, clearer road maps, and a new financing option for its Dynamics range of business applications on Wednesday.On the support side, Microsoft will offer five years of extended support beyond the five-year mainstream support period for its CRM (customer relationship management), ERP (enterprise resource planning), and retail management products.&quot;Ten years in this industry is quite a long time,&quot; said Kirill Tatarinov, a vice president in Microsoft&#39;s division that deals with business applications, who introduced the program during a keynote speech at Convergence 2007.The plan, called Business Ready Customer Care, means customers won&#39;t necessarily be forced to upgrade. The price of the support will vary according to what software the customer has.&quot;We don&#39;t want customers to upgrade on our timeline,&quot; said Barb Edson, senior marketing director for Microsoft&#39;s Dynamics products.Tatarinov said customers who still don&#39;t want to move to a new version of a Dynamics product can also buy custom support for older versions, which will extend support beyond 10 years.&quot;Should you choose to stay for whatever business or technical reason, we will support you,&quot; Tatarinov said.Microsoft has also extended its premier support service to Dynamics. The service includes 24-hour technical support and can accommodate on-site visits. Microsoft&#39;s Dynamics line includes the ERP programs AX, GP, NAV, and SL; its CRM application, and its Retail Management Solution products.In another announcement, Tatarinov said the company will release a new version of its Dynamics products every two years, with a feature or service pack every year or so. He also said Microsoft will publish documents that give a clear road map of its forthcoming products up to 18 months in advance.&quot;We are committing to effectively give you a statement of direction for every product we will be delivering,&quot; Tatarinov said.Microsoft hasn&#39;t hit the original deadlines it set for at least two software products in its Dynamics line. The company said on Tuesday that&#160;Dynamics NAV 6.0, one of its ERP applications for mid-size companies, won&#39;t be released until the middle of next year. Also,&#160;Dynamics CRM 4.0, code-named Titan, is now due by the end of the year but was originally scheduled for release in June or July.Tatarinov laid out Microsoft&#39;s roadmap for several Dynamics products. AX 5.0, which will include 500 new features such as VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) and instant messaging, will be released between April and June next year.Two other ERP products, SL 8.0 and GP 11, will be built on Microsoft&#39;s next release of its Office suite, called Office 14, Tatarinov said. Those products will ship within 90 days of Office 14, which is scheduled for release in 2009, he said. Roadmaps should be published soon for both of those products.NAV 6.0 and Entrepreneur 2008, an ERP application for small businesses, will come out in the second half of next year. Entrepreneur will be expanded globally for 2009, Tatarinov said.The newest version of C5, an ERP product used mostly in Denmark, will come out by the end of year.On the financing side, Microsoft is adding a new financing plan that lets customers make fixed, regular payments for software under its Total Solution Financing program. That program is now in 14 countries and will be expanded to others, Tatarinov said.Leasing terms range from 24 to 60 months, which should allow business more flexible money management, starting as low as &#8364;50 ($71) per month, Microsoft said.&#160;
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Within the next few weeks, Overture will make a major switch to matching terms on a broad basis, rather than the traditional exact match default it has followed since the company's launch.
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Company hopes that the rival to Apple's iTunes will make draw visitors to MSN website.