Stories about: Go.com

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Billy we hardly knew ye 01 July, 2008 11:56

It feels strange writing this, I won't have Bill Gates to kick around anymore. (Or, given that he still plans to visit the Redmond campus once a week, I'll only have 20 percent of him to kick around.) Of all the tech targets I've pummeled over the years, the world's third richest man easily commands the pole position.
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Dear Microsoft, thanks for the help, Linux 27 June, 2008 10:28

You gotta love it. Microsoft has decided that it will ho ahead and kill off easy access to XP on June 30th. On behalf of desktop Linux users everywhere, and our first cousins, the Mac fans, thanks. You've given us the best shot we'll ever have of taking the desktop.
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Five reasons to fire Ballmer 02 June, 2008 10:22

On July 1st, Bill Gates will retire. He'll still spend about 20 per cent of his time on Microsoft projects. If Microsoft is to retain 20 per cent of its economic clout in five years time, the company's board should start working on firing CEO Steve Ballmer now.
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Craigslist tops US mobile browsing 23 May, 2008 12:29

Mobile Web surfers in the US spend more time on classified-ad site Craigslist than on any other Web site, and they spent nearly twice as much time browsing as their British counterparts in March.
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The top network inventors of all time 03 July, 2007 15:17

Although boxing legend George Foreman, a judge on the second-year CBS reality show American Inventor, has yet to invent a network device, his Lean Mean Grilling Fat-Reducing Machine has been used by countless techies to quickly cook sandwiches and hamburgers after a long day in the data center.
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Google shareholders shoot down anticensorship proposal 11 May, 2007 13:37

A majority of Google shareholders Thursday voted against an anticensorship proposal that took aim at the way the search giant conducts its business in China and other countries that engage in active censorship.
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Jupiter: News sites flourish after attacks 16 October, 2001 08:05

Reflecting the public's insatiable hunger for news following the Sept. 11 attacks in the U.S., the most-visited sites on the Web last month were news sites, according to a report released Monday by Jupiter Media Metrix Inc.
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Ask Jeeves launches key-word search ad network 09 April, 2001 14:01

Question-and-answer search engine developer Ask Jeeves Inc. launched its DirectHit Network Monday, an advertising service that blends search with paid placement.
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AltaVista Cuts Jobs, Drops Media Business 18 September, 2000 12:01

In an effort to move into the black, Web portal AltaVista slashed 25 per cent or 225 people from its workforce of 900 employees.
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IBM heads Olympic hit list 18 September, 2000 12:01

Despite the attraction of live TV Olympic coverage, the internet is still grabbing Australian viewers' attention in a big way, with the IBM-hosted official site, olympics.com, quadrupling its monthly traffic over the previous four months from 36,000 to 180,000 unique visitors.
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AltaVista Pruning Workers, Refocusing 16 September, 2000 12:01

AltaVista Co. announced Friday that it will cut 25 percent of its workforce and consolidate its four California offices into its Palo Alto headquarters.