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Microsoft’s Cashback Offers Over Live Search–Effective?
Microsoft has announced their new innovation over the online advertising competition–a cashback program at the Advance08 Conference in Redmond, Washington. The idea is Microsoft will pay a portion of a purchase price (from 2 percent to more than 30 percent) to individuals who use its Live Search engine to find products online and buy them […]
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Xbox Manager Slams Sony for Every PlayStation 3 Misstep
by Marcus Yam - DailyTech.com
Microsoft pulls no punches in pointing out PS3 mistakes.
Console wars are the sweet fuel to all fanboy discussions, and whenever a representative of a particular games company says something particularly scathing about the competition, explosions are sure to follow.
Xbox product manager Aaron Greenberg recently spoke out in an interview with Destructoid […]
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Microsoft Contests $1.4bn EU Fine
by BBC News
Microsoft has appealed against a 899m euros ($1.4bn; £680.9m) fine given for defying sanctions imposed on it for anti-competitive behaviour.
The penalty - the largest ever from the European Commission - came after it failed to comply with a 2004 ruling that it abused its market position.
The ruling said that Microsoft […]
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Alarm at Google Yahoo Partnering
by Maggie Shiels - BBC News
Regulators in the US are being urged to investigate any potential online advertising and search partnership between Google and Yahoo.
The call by a coalition of 16 American civil rights and rural advocacy bodies comes despite the fact no firm deal has actually been announced.
“We all suffer in such […]
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Sales of Blu-ray Disc Not Enough to Stop Home Video Slump
by Marcus Yam - DailyTech
Blu-ray Disc sales growing, but home video revenues are still down .
The future of home video is thought to be set now with Blu-ray Disc emerging as the victor in the high-definition format war, but things aren’t quite so rosy in the present market.
Blu-ray Disc sales have jumped considerably in 2008, […]
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Ten Reasons to Like U.S. Equities: BlackRock
by Jeremy Gaunt - BNet.com
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LONDON (Reuters) - BlackRock, the giant U.S. investment fund with some $1.36 trillion in assets under management, reckons the banking crisis is not over and companies are delaying expansion plans and in some case cutting spending.
But in a note, Bob Doll, […]
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