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For 2010, Google’s lobbying expenses topped the summed amount spent by fellow technology giants Apple, Yahoo and Facebook, US government filings show.
According to the US Lobbying Disclosure Act Database, Google spent a total of $5.16 million in 2010 on lobbyists in 2010, a 28 percent increase from its $4.03 million expense on lobbyist for the previous year.
The same database shows that in 2010, Apple spent $1.61 million on lobbyists, Yahoo spent …

Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, the web site which lets internet surfers share content, said this week on his Diggnation show that Yahoo has talked with him about taking over its Delicious bookmarking website. The discussion took place in late November/December, before Yahoo announced layoffs.

Yahoo and Digg, Rose explained, talked about how much it would cost to maintain the Delicious website, Yahoo did not try to sell it to Digg.  After news broke that Yahoo was going to sell Delicious and …

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LinkedIn, the world’s largest social networking site for professionals, named venture capitalist Michael Moritz as its new addition to the board of directors last Tuesday.
In over 25 years, Moritz served as a managing member of Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm that privately held LinkedIn’s first external investor, backed large companies, including Apple, Cisco and YouTube, to name a few, and served on the boards of several technological companies, such as …

Google, in collaboration with major sites and Internet firms, joins the Internet Society in announcing World IPv6 Day, a day of testing the next Internet Protocol generation on June 8 of this year.
During a 30-year span, the Internet has been using 32-bit addresses, which is rapidly running out of space, and IPv6 solely holds the long-term answer; sadly, this new Internet Protocol has not been widely implemented, as only 0.2% of users own a built-in IPv6 connectivity.
Early 2008, Google started …

Monthly data from industry researcher comScore Inc. showed that Google continued to widen its lead over number 2 ranked Yahoo in the market share of U.S. internet searches. Yahoo, which gained some ground earlier this year, saw its share of the search market fall .4 of a point to 16% while Google’s share increased .4 of a percentage point to 66.6% of all U.S. search queries.

ComScore said that if other websites “powered by” Google are included, the search engine giant’s share of the …

Yahoo Sports, which boasts an audience of 50 million, launched an online sports magazine on Tuesday night, ThePostGame.com. Yahoo is partnering with the social networking and blogging website SportsFanLive.com to produce the magazine, which will feature news on sports technology, betting lines, fitness, and athlete style, along with 140 word rants and longer articles.

David Katz said print magazines are quickly becoming anachronistic, and the print world faces many challenges. Katz, chief …

Yahoo!Inc and Walt Disney Co. are in discussions about using the internet media company’s TV software to show videos from its television networks, according to sources familiar with the talks.

Under terms of the agreement, Disney would provide Yahoo widgets for its Disney, ABC, and ESPN networks that would bring in video content from over the internet into Yahoo connected TV sets.
If Yahoo closes the deal with Walt Disney it will bring them squarely into the battle between Cisco Systems, …

Yahoo has partnered with CBS Corp. and HSN Inc, to provide interactive features to live programs on sets using Yahoo’s Connected TV software. Set-top boxes provide internet connections and the market for interactive advertizing is expected to increase greatly.  CBS Corp. owns the most viewed U.S. broadcast network, and HSN Inc. is a home shopping retailer.

Director of product marketing for the Connected TV Group said the key features of Broadcast Interactivity “is to sense what you’re …

As if Yahoo hasn’t suffered enough flack lately, from job cuts to extreme streamlining, they’ve now been linked to the bad news in  theVeteran Affairs Department’s monthly report to Congress this month.  In the report, doctors had been violating patient security rights by listing personal information on one of Yahoo’s applications, Yahoo Calendar.
Reportedly, doctors were storing 878 patients’ medical information on the application, such as types of surgery, full names, dates of …

Carol Bartz, President and CEO of Yahoo, had every intention of streamlining and focusing on increasing Yahoo’s operating margins, and she’s been very successful at the streamlining venture.  Bartz has effectively lopped off approximately $4.8 billion worth of mergers and acquisition work from Yahoo’s lifetime.
Even though most of that comes from the amount paid for Geocities, approximately $3.6 billion, she’s also totally massacred $1.2 billion worth of other M&A.  Some of the …