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President Masahiro Inoue said Friday that if Yahoo Inc. of the United States sells its Yahoo Japan shareholdings, Softbank Corp.

REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer on Thursday defended the company's need to make steep investments in its Internet business in order to compete with Google Inc and said such moves could boost its value in time.

Speaking to Wall Street analysts at the company's annual analyst meeting at its Redmond headquarters, Ballmer said its online businesses could eventually generate a majority of the economic value created by the world's largest software maker.

Proxy advisory service Proxy Governance has just released its report on Yahoo and is recommending that shareholders vote against three board members: Chairman Roy Bostock and directors Ron Burkle and Arthur ...

Alas. It looks like maybe, finally, Microsoft has thrown in the Yahoo towel. The last straw in the months long we-love-you, we-love-you-not dealings may have been this week's announcement that proxy-battler ...

AOL is shutting three data-storage services, including one of the Internet's earliest photo-sharing sites, as it seeks to cut costs and focus resources on its advertising opportunities.

Two new Facebook programs are designed to change the functions and versatility of the social networking platform.

Yahoo, Inc. is out with numbers and it appears that while there is a bit of growth, it's nothing to write home about.

Baidu continues to have no trouble finding growth in China. China's Web's search leader on Wednesday beat analyst profit and sales estimates in posting record earnings for the second quarter.

If you wondered where Amy Iorio is in the latest Yahoo Media mix, well, not at Yahoo .

Yahoo President Sue Decker has taken the high road. In a CNBC interview that aired Wednesday, she said she looks forward to meeting investor activist Carl Icahn when he joins the company's board and would "love ...

Dismiss Posted at 12:00 AM PT on July 24, 2008 Oh, BoomTown loves a delicious irony.

Yahoo is expanding its popular e-mail service to the desktop in a bid to help consumers manage their e-mail accounts when they aren't online.

Turbo Screen Sharing Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional offers users the ability to have a more productive and engaging web conferencing experience while providing the IT department with a program that ...

Wachovia Corp. lost a staggering $8.9 billion in the second quarter, leading the nation's fourth-largest bank to cut its dividend and slash more than 6,000 jobs in response to mortgage-related losses.

San Jose-based Cisco Systems, the world's biggest maker of computer-networking equipment, agreed to buy Pure Networks for about $120 million to make its home- networking system more user-friendly. Pure ...

Yahoo suffered a 19 percent drop in quarterly profit and net revenue, failing to meet Wall Street expectations of $1.37 billion.

The latest thinking in the Silicon Valley scene regarding the Microsoft-Yahoo-Carl Icahn Saga, which is not going away, might be about some sort of killer patent owned by Yahoo.

Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference kicked off Monday night with sharp-tongued bloggers ripping into each other and the companies they cover.

Penton Media , a business-to-business media company, has announced the appointment of Jim L'Heureux to the position of senior Vice President, eMedia.

The online hangout MySpace took another step Tuesday in cooperating with rival Internet services, joining a coalition that allows people to use the same accounts and passwords across the Web.