AP - A group representing big-spending national advertisers said Sunday it sent a letter to the Justice Department asserting an online ad partnership between Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. will stifle competition and likely raise prices.
AP - When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world.
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Review Logitech's latest cordless mobile mouse offers a neat solution to the problem of where you put the thing when it's not being used: this one you clip onto your laptop.?
MySQL co-founder Micheal "Monty" Widenius may quit Sun Microsystems, less than seven months after Sun paid $1bn for his free database outfit.?
Microsoft has debuted the first commercial starring its $10m Vista pitchman, Jerry Seinfeld.?
Biometric identity scanners are attracting more attention as safe way to handle user authentication and security. But a team of Japanese researchers claim current methods are bunk if approached by a sufficiently sophisticated intruder.?
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News: Ad trade group opposes Yahoo-Google search deal — Update at 3:03 p.m. PDT, with comments from the Attorney General from the state of Connecticut, which is one of the lead states in the multi-state antitrust review of the Yahoo-Google deal. — The Association of National Advertisers announced Sunday …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Google Chrome Receives Heavy Criticism in Germany — It doesn't get any more “official” than this here. Yesterday, Saturday at around 20:07, Germany's oldest and perhaps biggest prime time news Tagesschau announced the following under the headline “Warning against internet browser"*:
Daniel Lyons / Newsweek: One Bad Apple — Apple is looking like what Microsoft was 10 years ago—a Bigfoot that squeezes smaller competitors. — From the magazine issue dated Sep 15, 2008 — A former lieutenant of Steve Jobs's once told me something surprising about his ex-boss. “Steve is a monopolist at heart,” he said.
Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog: Marissa Mayer talks about Google at 10 — and 20 — She is not nearly as famous as celebrity founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. But, in many ways, Marissa Mayer has become the public face of Google, which was incorporated 10 years ago today. — The Internet giant's first female engineer …
Om Malik / GigaOM: Google at 10: Larry, Sergey & Me — It is not clear how old Google is - some argue that world's largest search engine operator is 13 - after all it operated in stealth for about 3 years before launching in September 1998. Many major news organizations are going with September 2008 as the tenth anniversary so I am going to play along.
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