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Yahoo! is likely to buy its way into social networking, and it accepts that Google has won the search game.
Ari Balogh, Yahoo's chief technology officer, told Reuters Global Technology Summit: "I can guarantee you there will be some acquisitions, and we will do some stuff in-house." He said now was a good time to buy because valuations are low.
He said that Google had won the search contest: “Search the way we know it, with 10 blue links, Google has clearly won that game. Saying anything other than that is just not stating the fact."
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Good Technology Buys Intercasting
May 19th, 2009 - InformationWeek
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Mobile Browser Skyfire Hits 1.0
May 19th, 2009 - InformationWeek
Startup Skyfire has completed the release version of its mobile browser, and the company said it brings a desktop browsing experience to users.The Skyfire browser uses...
Therese Poletti's Tech Tales
May 19th, 2009 - MarketWatch
CARLSBAD, Calif. (MarketWatch) - The two co-founders of the San Francisco start-up Twitter managed to evade most questions at the All Things Digital conference about how the micro-blogging company will generate revenue...
Iran lifts ban on Facebook
May 19th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Beirut -- Iran unblocked Facebook just days after the popular social networking website was banned, an Iranian news agency reported Tuesday. The Iranian Labor News Agency...
Facebook IPO "years away," CEO says
May 19th, 2009 - USA Today
Don't hold your breath for a Facebook IPO. Mark Zuckerberg, the social-networking giant's 25-year-old CEO, told Reuters today that an initial public offering is a few years away. Zuckerberg says he is open to investments and partnerships...




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