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Friday February 28, 2008

Microsoft Launches ‘Big Snap’ For Live Search Users

Microsoft which lags behind Google and Yahoo in its number of search users according to recent data from Web traffic analysis firm comScore, has teamed up with Virgin to launch a prize campaign called ‘Big Snap’ to attract users to Microsoft Live Search. Every time a user searches two cards are displayed, if the cards match, the user can win one of many prizes such as massages, golf lessons, vouchers for Virgin Atlantic flights or a grand prize trip to Richard Branson’s private island in the British Virgin Islands.

http://www.nma.co.uk/Articles/36991/Microsoft%20runs%20prize%20campaign%20for%20Live%20Search%20users.html
http://try.bigsnapsearch.com/

Yahoo Newspaper Consortium Expands

Yahoo has added four publishers, including Shaw Newspapers, The Buffalo News, the Times Publishing Company, and the Columbia Publishing Company to its newspaper network which now numbers 634 partners. Yahoo began building its partnerships with newspapers in 2006, and it now includes 30 percent of U.S. daily newspapers and 37 percent of all U.S. Sunday circulation.

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/02/21/ap4683040.html
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/02/22/yahoo-newspaper-consortium-expands
http://www.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2008/02/18/daily59.html

EMC Launches Cloud Computing Focused Unit With Ex Microsoft Exec

EMC, which makes corporate storage computing gear will hire former Microsoft Executive Paul Maritz to lead as General Manager of a division that will focus on both “cloud computing” and software and services for managing personal data online. EMC acquired Pi, founded by Maritz, which stands for personal information, for its technology that helps businesses and consumers control who has access to information stored in cloud computing centers. Its believed that cloud computing is the next big storage breakthrough, an area where Internet companies such as Google and Yahoo have pioneered by making products accessible via the Web.

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN2149779720080222
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/02/22/EMC-buys-Pi-to-round-out-cloud-computing-unit_1.html

[edited by: Vanessa_Zamora at 11:52 pm (utc) on Feb. 22, 2008]