CIO Insight Staff

Time Warner’s AOL landed one of its biggest advertising deals since the division’s restructuring as the sole representative of telephone company Verizon’s online advertising inventory. The timing of the announcement expected on Monday is ironic as Verizon sued Time Warner Cable last week accusing the majority-owned cable TV operator of false advertising related to Verizon’s […]

Microsoft plans on Thursday to unveil a Web-based service for driving directions that uses sophisticated software to help its users avoid traffic jams, the New York Times reported. The software technology system, called Clearflow, will provide drivers with alternative information for routes that takes into account prevailing traffic patterns, according to the Times. The Clearflow […]

Yahoo, which was widely believed to be running out of alternatives to accepting Microsoft’s takeover offer, has become a target of two warring camps of technology giants and their media allies, sources said on Wednesday. News Corp is considering joining Microsoft in a bid for Yahoo which would bring in News Corp’s MySpace online social […]

Yahoo may have played its top two cards by pulling out possible deals with AOL and Google, but it does not seem to have changed Wall Street’s view that Microsoft will eventually win the takeover battle.   Yahoo announced on Wednesday a test to outsource Web search advertising to Google. Sources say the test is part […]

A major Yahoo shareholder, Legg Mason, is ready to back Yahoo’s effort to stay independent if Microsoft lowers its buyout offer, the Wall Street Journal said, citing an interview with portfolio manager Bill Miller.   "The problem is Microsoft blundered with the letter this weekend," Miller told the Journal, referring to Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer’s […]

Denmark is better placed than any other country to benefit economically from new information and communications technology, according to a survey published on Wednesday by the World Economic Forum.   In its annual global information technology report, the Switzerland-based organization ranked Denmark top of 127 countries it surveyed for a second year in a row. The […]

Google on Monday defended a policy of retaining data on Web users for up to 18 months as necessary to improve search results, responding to an EU report that saw no need for search services to keep personal data beyond six months. A group of data protection commissioners from across the European Union found that […]

Robots could fill the jobs of 3.5 million people in graying Japan by 2025, a think tank says, helping to avert worker shortages as the country’s population shrinks. Japan faces a 16 percent slide in the size of its workforce by 2030 while the number of elderly will mushroom, the government estimates, raising worries about […]

Yahoo is not opposed to Microsoft’s bid for the Web media company, as long as it is at the right price, Yahoo’s board said on Monday in a letter to Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer.   "We have continued to make clear that we are not opposed to a transaction with Microsoft if it is in the […]

Chinese authorities appeared to have lifted a block on the English-language version of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, but politically sensitive topics such as Tibet and Tiananmen Square are still off limits. Internet users in Beijing and Shanghai confirmed on Saturday that they could access the English-language version of one of the world’s most popular websites, but […]

Yahoo has three weeks to accept Microsoft’s $31-a-share cash-and-stock offer or Microsoft may lower its bid and take its offer to Yahoo investors, Microsoft said on Saturday. Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said in a letter dated April 5 and addressed to Yahoo’s board of directors that "now is the time" to negotiate final terms […]