After all the excitement and press releases about the search deal between Microsoft and Yahoo, the serious market analysis is now beginning. US regulators have decided to scrutinize the deal, to understand if the reduction of the number of major search providers, from three to two, will hurt competition in the search market. Regulators will […]

+       After months and months of merger and acquisition talks with Microsoft and Google, Yahoo has finally reached a deal to merge their search and search advertising functions with someone – Microsoft! The deal will last 10 years, and “Microsoft will now power Yahoo search while Yahoo will become the exclusive worldwide […]

Mobile applications have been receiving increasing business interest recently, as their functionality and capabilities have quickly increased. The early platform leader in mobile applications has been Apple. This is partially due to the fact that they were the first mover and created the first highly usable online application store. The success of this store became […]

Right before Microsoft’s Bing was announced, another new search-related website was getting the spotlight, WolframAlpha.com. Wolfram Alpha was created by Stephen Wolfram, who is also the creator of the highly respected research focused application, Mathematica. While this new website has received quite a bit of attention recently, many people still seem to be somewhat confused […]