As Internet Explorer Wanes, MSN Tries iPad Route For Its Content
MSN UK wants to be a self-contained content brand, and it’s not afraid to use Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) rivals’ devices to do it.
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Microsoft On Target In Fourth Quarter But Windows Sales Still Sliding
Microsoft’s fourth-quarter earnings came in about where Wall Street had expected, but the decline of its Windows business continued during a…
Does a MicroHoo deal make sense now?
Three-and-a-half years after Microsoft proposed a $44 billion takeover of Yahoo, the software giant will take another look at Yahoo’s financials. Since then, Yahoo’s stock price has been cut in half. But does a cheaper Yahoo mean a better value for Microsoft?
Industry Moves: MSN UK, BBC.com, HuffPo Staff Up On Content; And More
— MSN UK: Former BBC News interactive head Pete Clifton, who is now MSN UK’s exec producer, is hiring BBC Wales’ social media editor Darren…
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MSN Ties With RenRen In China – Whither Facebook?
MSN China and RenRen, the Facebook-like Chinese social network, have signed a wide-ranging strategic cooperation pact that will enhance the…
Industry Moves: MSN.co.uk, Guardian, Abu Dhabi Media Company, CISAC
— MSN.co.uk: The portal’s new channels head is Virgin Media’s online product director Dominic Eames, responsible for a team of 30 writers,…
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As If The Switch From AOL News To HuffPo Isn’t Confusing Enough
*AOL* News, consistently among the top news sites, is making way for The Huffington Post, a victim of the $315 million acquisition of the y…
Macquarie: AOL’s Display Business Has Put The Worst Behind It
AOL’s consistent double-digit display declines over the past year have surely tried its investors’ patience, but a report from Macquarie Cap…
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BBC News’ Clifton Replacing Bale As MSN UK Head
One of the BBC News website’s veteran editors Pete Clifton is joining MSN UK as executive producer, the role formerly occupied by CNN Intern…
IAB Attempts To Bring Some Order To Choice Of Large Display Formats
The Interactive Advertising Bureau’s “rising stars” award isn’t meant as solely as a pat on the back to high profile members at its annual c…
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Microsoft’s Results Easily Beat Expectations
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) posted a 5 percent increase in sales during the most recent quarter, countering predictions that its revenue would st…
Macquarie: Larger Homepage Ads Gained Momentum In Q4
If it felt like there were a lot more of those large, homepage takeover display ads in the latter half of Q4, that’s because major sites lik…
Updated: MSN UK Ditching Music Downloads Service For Zune Marketplace Links
As we expected, MSN UK is killing off its short-lived MSN Music pay-for music replacement, in favour of Zune Marketplace, which is becoming…
Microsoft Hires Former AOL CTO Cahall To Oversee MSN
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is shuffling the top management of its MSN portal, six months after rolling out a major redesign of the site. The com…
MSN Adds Localized Deals From Gannett’s ShopLocal
Microsoft’s MSN, which introduced new ‘Local Edition’ pages as part of its big homepage overhaul earlier this year, is now adding localized…
Microsoft Beats Expectations; Online Losses Up Again
Embattled CEO Steve Ballmer might* have some cause for cheer: Robust demand for PCs helped drive up sales of Microsoft’s software over the l…
MSN Ups Bale To Lead International Content, Bing Links
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is moving its MSN UK executive producer Peter Bale to a new position of international programming director, responsib…
MSN Partners With GrindNetworks To Launch A Comedy Channel
MSN’s latest content partnership: A deal with GrindNetworks to launch a new “comedy channel” called theBubble. The video-heavy site, which l…
MSN UK Homepage To Integrate Facebook And Twitter
By Mark Sweney: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is to unveil a new-look MSN UK homepage later today that includes tie-ups with Facebook and Twitter a…
Industry Moves: Criteo, MSN, Rubicon, Steak, Ascent Media
— Criteo: Former AOL (NYSE: AOL) UK MD Michael Steckler is joining French PPC retargeting network Criteo, which lets e-commerce operations…
MSN Now Properly Pitching UK TV, Video Site To Advertisers
Ashley Highfield is getting to reboot his online video ambitions after all, after concluding MSN UK’s catch-up TV pilot presents a rich enou…
New MSN Homepage Begins Full Roll-Out — With Customized Headlines, More Local
After a month-long delay, Microsoft’s overhaul of the MSN homepage is going live to the site’s 100 million users over the next two weeks. Pe…
Both NBCOlympics.com And Yahoo Claim Gold In Olympics Traffic
It apparently can’t be an Olympics without dueling claims from both Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and NBC on whose Olympics website is tops. The headli…
Microsoft Reportedly In Talks To Buy Social Games Maker CrowdStar
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) seems intent on making a big entry into the social games space. The company announced a week ago that it would bring…
Microsoft, Partners Launch Social Finance Site Bundle.com; Incubated Out of Citigroup
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), Morningstar and Citigroup are backing Bundle.com, a new social finance site, which the three companies are pitching…
New MSN Home Page Still Set To Launch ‘Early This Year’ — But Some ‘Tweaks’ Coming
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) says it is making some “tweaks” to its overhaul of the MSN home page before it rolls it out more broadly. In its
Microsoft’s Bing To Be Default Search Engine On HP PCs Worldwide
That rumored Apple-rival slate isn’t being unveiled, but Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer is announcing some minor pieces of news du…
2010 Forecasts: Layoffs May Supress The Recovery
What will happen in our industries next year? This holiday season, we’re asking industry figures to peer in to their crystal ball; here’s th…
Major Brands Dominate The Most-Visited Mobile Web Sites
There’s really no major surprises when it comes to the big players on the mobile web, according to two reports released today. In fact, all…
Microsoft’s MSN Partners With IGN For New Video Game Site
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has reached yet another content partnership for its MSN portal, which it is in the process of relaunching. The compan…
The Big Portals’ Battle For Local
The local space is heating up, with the number of hyperlocal news startups growing by the month and the big-three portals also doubling down…
Microsoft Launches A Twitter-Like Service In China
At least for now, Twitter has pretty much locked up the microblogging market in the U.S., but a couple of big players seem to think they can…
MSN Ready To Acquire ‘The Long Tail Of TV’
When MSN UK announced its ambitions to be a TV catch-up portal this spring, it just looked like Microsoft’s new consumer-and-online Ashley H…
Microsoft Combines MSN Video And Bing Video Search
In announcing an overhaul of MSN.com last week, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) said it would increasingly play up its Bing search engine on the port…
MSN Carefully Relaunching UK Music Service With Downloads, Streams
MSN UK is relaunching its music downloads offering on an in-house platform, seven months after it was knocked offline by Nokia’s decision to…
MSN Home-Page Overhaul Includes Big Push On Local
On the heels of big redesigns at rival portals Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and AOL (NYSE: TWX), Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is unveiling what it is callin…
Updated: MySpace Music May Be Coming To MSN
MSN is in talks with MySpace to bring its MySpace Music service to MSN, Kara Swisher reports. Swisher describes the talks as being “early,”…
Microsoft Brings HealthVault To MSN
Since the launch of its HealthVault consumer health platform two years ago, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has mostly been pushing the service by pa…
MSN Launches Digital Newspaper Aggregator With PressDisplay.com
MSN UK is tapping Vancouver-based NewspaperDirect’s PressDisplay.com to launch an aggregator for digital newspaper editions.
PressDisplay.c…
MSN Ends Deal With Bell Canada; Both Will Launch Separate Portals
MSN’s five year old deal for a joint venture Canadian online portal with Bell Canada has come to and end, and both will launch separate port…
Broadband Content Bits: Utarget.fox Ads; Karoo's U-Turn; BBC HTML5; MSN Video
— Utarget.fox-InSkin: News Corp-own video ad network Utarget.fox is partnering with InSkin in Germany, Spain and France to offer Flash-base…
MSN UK To Stream Peep Show, Young Ones And Other Programmes
By Jack Schofield: Microsoft’s MSN Video site is extending the length of some of the programmes it streams in the UK, having agreed content…
Microsoft’s MSN To Shut Down YouTube-Rival Soapbox
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), which said last month it was rethinking the strategy around its user-generated video uploading service Soapbox, has…
MSN UK Rebooting Music Service With Streaming And Downloads
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) wants to reintroduce actual music to its UK MSN Music site, filling the gap created in April by the demise of its whi…
Microsoft’s MSN Will Overhaul Home Page; Getting Rid Of Link Clutter
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is preparing to launch a redesign of its MSN portal this fall that will more tightly integrate the site with the comp…
Perez Hilton Wants To Cosy Up To Advertisers!
When you think of Perez Hilton, the phrase “advertiser friendly” doesn’t jump to mind. But the shock blogger is planning a new site that pro…
Vid-Biz: Obama, GSA, VoloMedia
Obama Holds Video Town Hall; in yet another online first, Obama streams comments on the economy, answering public questions including some submitted…
MSN, Fox Sports Renew, Expand Exclusive Partnership
Fox Sports keeps its spot as the exclusive sports provider on MSN in a multi-year renewal and expansion of the original 2005 deal when FoxSp…
Why Microsoft Fails to Win Online
Microsoft’s battle to conquer the web has a certain Moby-Dick-like quality. Me-too products, muddled branding strategy and constantly playing catchup with competitors…
Yuuguu Inside: Screensharing Comes to AIM, ICQ, MSN & Yahoo
It’s been a busy few weeks for the team at online meeting service Yuuguu, with the announcement of Linux and Flash clients…
Will You Vote Republicrat?
In this time of political polarity, new media management and production studio Generate is hoping to bring the country together with its…
T-Series Issues Notice To Guruji.com Amongst Others
Sure enough, the days without incident were indeed numbered. T-series has issued a notice to Guruji.com amongst other websites including MSN…
@AGI: Xbox Break Even Year In India – 2011; Halo III Sales; Age Of Empires Asian Dynasty
During the panel on gaming in India, the last of day one of the NASSCOM Animation & Gaming India conference in Mumbai, Mohit Anand, Country…
Hutch Brings Click-To-Call Service Via MSN Search To Delhi Users
Hutch, which last year partnered with Microsoft to provide search, messenger and mail to Hutch users in India, has launched a click to call…
WorldSpace And MSN India Launch Online Radio Service
WorldsSpace and MSN India have tied up to launch an online radio service featuring five WorldSpace station – Farishta (Hindi film classics),…
New Motion Tablet PC rumors in Alaska
We heard from a jkOnTheRun reader in Alaska that Motion Computing is going to release a new Tablet PC soon. According to…
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Addicted to RSS? Litefeeds will send everything to any wireless device – Blackberry, Pocket PC, Palm, Java Phone.. you need to download…
