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Potentially toughening the competitive landscape for its own Silverlight rich Internet application platform, Microsoft will expand support for the HTML5 specification in its Internet Explorer 9 browser, under a plan revealed Tuesday.

In an announcement at the Mix10 conference in Las Vegas, Microsoft...

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Twitter has sealed a content-sharing deal with Yahoo, the world’s third largest website and second largest search engine, according to The Los Angeles Times.
The deal is different than the Twitter-Google and Microsoft-Twitter search partnerships. It’s a wider-ranging content-sharing deal...

Microsoft and Yahoo announced today that they have received clearance for their search agreement, without restrictions, from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission, and will now turn their attention to beginning the process of implementing the deal.
The exact implementation...

Google will soon launch a music service, we’ve heard from multiple sources, and the company has spent the last several weeks securing content for the launch of the service from the major music labels. One source has referred to the new service as Google Audio.
We’re still gathering details,...

Moments ago Microsoft launched WebsiteSpark, a new program to provide web developers and designers free copies of Microsoft development tools, applications and server licenses for a period of three years. The program is the third and latest launch as part of the ’spark’ series of outreach...

Microsoft's mobile gadget strategy is a mess.

This is a serious problem that will prevent the company from becoming a leader in the current mobile platform era.

Let's start with Microsoft's newest gadget, the Zune HD. Early reviews are positive: The big screen looks nice, and the software is snappy....

Twitter will raise around $50 million at a $1 billion valuation, TechCrunch's Michael Arrington reports, citing "multiple sources." Twitter CEO Evan Williams reportedly disclosed the round at a recent employee meeting.

Twitter raised $35 million earlier this year, led by Benchmark Capital and Institutional...

Adobe said on Tuesday that it has reached a deal to acquire Web analytics firm Omniture for $1.8 billion, or $21.50 per share.

That represents a 45 percent premium to Omniture's average closing price for the last 30 days, Adobe noted in its press release. Omniture, which was started in 1996, has about...