Yahoo search to run on all PCs of Taiwan's Acer
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Yahoo Inc. YHOO.O has signed a   multiyear distribution deal to feature its Internet search   services on all personal computers from Taiwan's Acer Inc.   2353.TW, the world's No. 4-ranked computer notebook maker,   the companies said on Wednesday.
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Yahoo has announced that it will introduce a downloadable desktop search. It will use technology licensed from a California-based three-year startup firm, X1 Technologies.
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SAN FRANCISCO  - Internet media company Yahoo Inc.  on Wednesday launched its Web search service aimed at mobile phone users in the United States, opening a new front in its rivalry with Internet search leader Google Inc.
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Taiwanese PC vendor Acer predicts its PC shipments will grow as much as 35 percent this year led by a strong notebook PC market, a pace of growth that could see the company challenge U.S. rivals by the end of this year.Acer&#39;s revenue grew 25 percent last year to NT$461.7 billion (US$14.42 billion) and the company made inroads to the world&#39;s largest PC market, the U.S., by acquiring Gateway. The revenue figure is preliminary and only includes Gateway&#39;s last two and a half months of the year because the merger process took place late in the year.Acer bought Gateway&#160;for US$710 million last year.But the figures and PC shipments had a tremendous impact on Acer&#39;s global PC rankings in the final three months of 2007.The company took a solid third place in global PC shipments last year,&#160;topping Chinese rival Lenovo and gaining ground on Dell. Acer&#39;s global PC shipment market share during the fourth quarter of 2007 reached 9.6 percent in the fourth quarter, up 60 percent over the same time a year earlier, according to IDC, the industry researcher.Lenovo, which had been jockeying for third place with Acer all year, fell to fourth with a 7.5 percent share of the global market. HP retained its first place ranking with 19 percent market share, while Dell remained firmly in second place at 14.6 percent.&quot;Combined Acer/Gateway growth continued to be the fastest among the top vendors and is a very solid performance for the first quarter of merged operations,&quot; IDC said in a statement. &quot;Acer also clearly established itself as the third largest vendor, overtaking Lenovo, and seems to be handling the Gateway integration quickly,&quot; the statement says.This year, Acer forecast its PC shipments overall will rise between 30 percent and 35 percent, led by 40 percent shipment growth in notebook PCs. Such strong growth could help the company challenge Dell, which saw its PC shipments grow only 1.7 percent in 2007, according to figures from Gartner. The market researcher put Acer&#39;s shipment growth last year at 32.9 percent for the year.Acer&#39;s chairman, J.T. Wang, predicted last October that Acer could take up to a 12 percent share of the global PC market, putting it in the position to challenge Dell.Acer&#39;s net profit was NT$12.9 billion in 2007, up from NT$10.2 billion a year earlier. The company&#39;s 2007 figures are all preliminary, Acer said. Final results will be published later.&#160;
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(InfoWorld) - YahooÂ reached a deal for prime real estate on all Acer PCs shipped globally, with a co-branded toolbar, homepage, and search engine, the companies said Wednesday. In a deal that extends the battle for the PC among Internet companies, Acer laptops and desktops shipped from Oct. 1 will direct users to an Acer-Yahoo homepage when they click on a Web browser, complete with Yahoo portal content such as the Yahoo search engine, news, music, sports and the Yahoo Personal Assistant. The pact mirrors anÂ agreement between Dell and GoogleÂ earlier this year, and ups the ante with MicrosoftÂ and other companies battling to drive PC users to their Internet-based services. The PC desktop has become a battleground for companies fighting to increase their brand awareness and Internet ad revenue. The comingÂ launch of Windows VistaÂ highlights the issue because Microsoft is moving toward putting more and more Internet capabilities, such as search, on its OS, which would make it the first item users see when they boot up their computer. In May, Dell agreed to install Google homepage and search tools on all desktops and notebooks shipped to consumers and small and medium-size businesses worldwide, effectively kicking Microsoft out of a position it has occupied for years. The Yahoo, Acer deal does essentially the same thing, and while Acer isn't nearly the size of Dell, it is the fastest growing PC vendor among the top 10, and is based in Asia, the fastest growing PC market in the world, according to market researcher IDC. Yahoo and Acer referred to the agreement as a multi-year deal, but did not specify how many years, nor whether it would involve any kind of revenue sharing. Acer will factory-install the co-branded toolbars and homepages on all of its desktops and laptops, the companies said. Once Microsoft launches Internet Explorer 7, Acer will set Yahoo as the default search engine for IE7 on all of its computers. Neither Yahoo nor Acer representatives were immediately available for comment.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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(InfoWorld) - Lenovo Group reclaimed the number three spot among PC vendors during the second quarter, pushing rival Acer back into fourth place. But Acer's exceptionally fast growth means the company isÂ likely to overtake LenovoÂ as number three for the entire year, if current trends continue. Acer has been on a roll in recent quarters, grabbing market share and putting pressure on Lenovo. During the first quarter of 2007, Acer tied Lenovo for third place, with both companies reporting shipments of nearly 4 million PCs, giving each company 6.7 percent of the market, according to IDC. Acer, which has made taking the number three spot from Lenovo aÂ principal goal for the year, was able to match Lenovo during the first quarter because of seasonal buying trends in China. Lenovo depends heavily on China, where it has long dominated PC sales. The company's first-quarter sales were slowed by the Chinese New Year holiday, a time when PC sales dive in China. Lenovo saw its first-quarter shipments increase 17.4 percent over the previous year, while Acer's shipments rose 41.4 percent, IDC said. Acer's first quarter sales weren't hit during by Chinese New Year because the company remains a relatively minor player in China, despite having roots in Taiwan, which shares a common language and culture. Acer's presence is much stronger in Taiwan, which also celebrates Chinese New Year. But Taiwan's relatively small population means the holiday had a minor impact on Acer's overall sales during that period. During the second quarter, Lenovo was able to reclaim the number three spot, with a 22.3 percent increase in unit shipments, to almost 4.9 million units, IDC said.Â Acer fell to the number four spot, but showed strong growth during the period. The company's shipments rose 55.4 percent over the same period last year, to almost 4.3 million units -- just 600,000 units fewer than Lenovo. That relatively narrow gap puts Acer within striking distance of Lenovo, assuming current growth trends continue through the rest of the year. Acer did well around the world during the second quarter, with the company posting unit shipment growth of 30 percent or more in every region. The company did particularly well in the Americas, IDC said. "New retail and dealer partner agreements are quickly expanding the company's access to the market, contributing to volume gains," it said. Â
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TAIPEI, Taiwan - Taiwanese high-tech giant Acer Inc. on Wednesday announced a leadership reshuffle and the retirement of Stan Shih _ the company&#39;s founder and a major figure in Taiwan&#39;s bid to dominate the personal computer industry.
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Yahoo began testing a new travel search engine Tuesday night that can be used to book flights, hotels and cars from more than 50 travel sites.
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(InfoWorld) - YahooÂ is schmoozing mobile phone operators atÂ the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona in the hopes of enlisting partners for its new mobile search services. With mobile phones soon expected to push PCs aside as the most popular tool to access the Internet, the company has given mobility a top priority and is taking steps to establish its mobile search engine as the technology of choice for mobile operators Marco Boerries, senior vice president of Yahoo Connected Life, said Tuesday at a news conference at the mobile phone show in sunny Spain. A gamma version of the company's new Java-based search application, Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0, is now available afterÂ a beta version was released in January at the International Consumer Electronics ShowÂ in Las Vegas, according to Boerries. The application is designed to help users easily navigate a selection of personal channels for such areasÂ as news, sports, entertainment, and maps. "Mobile search so far hasn't worked because it's been an adaption of PC search," Boerries said. "Mobile users want instant answers" that are intelligently selected for small devices. A key feature of Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0 is oneSearch, a new search engine designed specifically for mobile devices. Instead of returning a list of Web sites, the search engine provides facts related to the query term, according to Boerries. More than 400,000 users have downloaded the beta application to about 100 different devices. Yahoo is particularly keen to have mobile phone operators and vendors preinstall the application. On Monday,Â the company reached a deal with LG ElectronicsÂ that will bring its brand to the screens of tens of millions of LG cell phone handsets shipped later this year. Under the deal, LG will preload Yahoo services, including Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0, Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo Messenger on phones sold worldwide. Clearly set on establishing an ad-funded search service on mobile phones similar to its service for PCs, Yahoo said Monday it will start showing mobile display ads on its Yahoo Mobile Web service in 19 countries across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Major advertisers include Intel, Pepsi, and Proctor & Gamble. The use of ad-funded search services will help mobile phone operators generate revenue that they may want to return to customers in the way of free services, Boerries said. "You can only give something away if you make something," he said. "Mobile advertising will enable this." Â
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SAN FRANCISCO Dec 10, 2004 - Yahoo Inc. is adding a tool to search computer hard drives as it scrambles to catch up with Google Inc.
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December 10, 2004. Making clear its intention to stay a player in the search wars, Yahoo! announced plans this morning to introduce a free, high-speed desktop search tool after the first of the year.
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Microsoft, Yahoo and Ask Jeeves are all set to jump into the desktop search space, two months after internet search leader Google offered a test version
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Yahoo has signed an agreement with HP to place a co-branded Internet toolbar on the company's computers in North America and Europe. In addition, Yahoo would be the default search portal when HP computers start shipping with IE7 later this year.
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TAIPEI/SHANGHAI  - Taiwan's Acer  will buy Gateway  for $710 million, creating the world's No. 3 PC maker and doubling its U.S. presence while dealing a blow to arch-foe Lenovo's  efforts to grow in Europe.
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(InfoWorld) - Taiwan's First International Computer (FIC) will unveil an ultraportable PC at the Computex show this week in Taipei. The CE260 is based on a 1.2GHzÂ C7-M processor from Via Technologies, has a 7-inch touchscreen display with 800 pixels by 480 pixels resolution, and boasts a five-hour battery life, the company said in a statement. Weighing in at just under 1 kilogram, the machine packs 802.11b/g wireless networking, a wired LAN port, and a 4-in-1 card reader slot. FIC is a contract PC maker and doesn't sell machines under its own brand. The CE260 will be on show at Computex in front of buyers from the world's PC vendors and available to them to customize and market under their own brand. Possible additions to the base specification include a detachable clock/calendar, Skype phone, DVB-T digital TV Tuner or GPS (global positioning system) module. Taiwan is a major manufacturer of PC and consumer electronics goods and Computex, which takes place annually in Taipei, brings the island's IT manufacturers together with buyers from big-name electronics brands and retailers from around the world. Ever since Intel unveiled its ultramobile PC platform at Cebit 2006 and Samsung Electronics took the wraps off the first machine based on that platform,Â the Q1,Â there has been increased interest in the market for sub-notebook-size laptops. Machines matching the form factorÂ are expected to be a big theme of Computex 2007.
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Taiwan-based Acer Inc, the world&#039;s fourth largest branded personal computer vendor, has said it is set to more than triple its sales in China this year through its own retail network.
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Yahoo is preparing to stake its claim to a key part of the burgeoning search engine business with a desktop search tool that makes it easier to find information on the hard drives of personal computers.