EBay Buys Search Service
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The Web auction leader has acquired StumbleUpon, a Web browsing recommendation site, for $75 million in cash.
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NEW YORK It's been six months since eBay and Google each launched online systems to buy and sell TV ads. So far the results have been markedly different: Google is off to a promising start while eBay last week admitted it is "disappointed" by the early response.
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In a deal between two of the Internet's most prominent properties, Google Inc. will begin selling advertising on Web auction leader eBay and help buyers quickly ring an online merchant to do business.
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Yahoo Inc.  and Web auctioneer  eBay  on Thursday announced a partnership designed to  boost their position against Microsoft Corp.  and Web  search leader Google Inc. , underscoring recent  speculation the two companies could eventually merge.
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"Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people find, use and share critical business information quickly"  Microsoft Corp. bid $1.2 billion for the Norwegian search engine company Fast Search &amp; Transfer ASA on Tuesday as it seeks to help companies trawl for information on the Internet.The offer of $2.97 per share, or 19 kroner, was 42 percent premium to the Norwegian company's recent average share price, and caused the stock to soar by nearly the same amount in early trading on the Oslo stock exchange. Fast's board unanimously recommended that shareholders accept the offer, a news release said. Read more
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Yahoo Inc., one of the largest online based companies said, it has bought out privately held e-mail search firm - Stata Labs. This is Yahoo&#39;s move to compete against Microsoft and Google with their e-mail search functionalities.
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Online auctioneer eBay Inc. will plug a recently purchased China site into its global network on Friday, creating new opportunities for a nascent but fast-growing operation, its chief executive said.
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InfoWorld - Microsoft has offered to buy enterprise search software company Fast Search And Transfer for 6.6 billion Norwegian kroner ($1.2 billion), it said Tuesday.
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Microsoft has offered to buy enterprise search software company Fast Search And Transfer for 6.6 billion Norwegian kroner ($1.2 billion), it said Tuesday.The acquisition will bring Microsoft powerful high-end search technologies to complement its enterprise infrastructure offering, the company said.Microsoft&#39;s recent efforts in the enterprise search market have been aimed at the other end of the market. In November, It introduced two new low-end enterprise search products,&#160;Search Server 2008 and Search Server Express 2008, both based on its SharePoint Server 2007 business productivity platform. It is pitching&#160;Search Server 2008&#160;as a cheap entry into enterprise search, while the Express version is free for single installations.By integrating Fast Search&#39;s products with SharePoint, and drawing on its worldwide network of partners, Microsoft hopes to bring Fast Search&#39;s products to a wider audience, it said Tuesday.It is also counting on Fast Search&#39;s Norwegian research team to bolster its research efforts in Europe. Microsoft has laboratories in Cambridge, England, and in Copenhagen, Denmark.The directors of Fast Search, based in Oslo, have recommended that shareholders accept the offer, which represents a premium of 42 percent over Fast Search&#39;s share price at close of business on Friday. The companies expect the deal to close in the second quarter, subject to customary closing conditions, including the approval of the holders of at least 90 percent of Fast Search&#39;s shares.Fast Search&#39;s rivals in the market for specialized enterprise search tools include Google, with its Search Appliance; French search company Exalead, and Autonomy, which recently acquired Meridio and Zantaz.Representatives of Fast Search could not immediately be reached for comment.&#160;
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EBay Inc., the world&#39;s largest Web auctioneer, agreed to buy privately held Rent.com for $415 million in cash and stock as it expands into classified listings.
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EBay plans to buy the apartment and home rental service Rent.com for $415 million, adding to its already exhaustive breadth of offerings.
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The incoming C.E.O. of eBay says he is planning a new search engine to show users the best offers from the best sellers with low prices, fast shipping and high quality.
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EBay Inc. EBAY.O has added a  new "Want it Now" feature for people to request exactly what  they want on the online marketplace, a spokesman said on  Friday.
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Online auctioneer eBay Inc. has  pulled its advertising from search company Google Inc.&#39;s  AdWords network in the United States, an eBay spokesman said on  Wednesday.
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EBay, the world&#39;s largest Internet auction house, is making a purchase of its own, increasing its stake in South Korean affiliate Internet Auction.
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Google Inc. said yesterday that it has formed a multiyear deal with eBay Inc. to provide text ads for the online auction giant outside the United States. The firms also agreed to enhance "click to call" functions on each other's Web sites, which would allow customers to use the Internet to instantly...
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Microsoft Corp. has offered to buy struggling internet search provider Yahoo for $44.6 billion, a merger that would combine two of the technology world's most well-known names into a potentially potent competitor for Google in the lucrative Web search and advertising market.