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The bad news just doesn't seem to end for Yahoo. As the Internet portal prepares to fend off a proxy fight by billionaire investor Carl Icahn, new research from comScore concludes that for the first time, Google has overtaken Yahoo as the most-visited Web site in the US.

Google's chief legal officer has fired the first shot of what will likely be an antitrust salvo at Microsoft over its unsolicited US$44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. Within two hours, Microsoft had countered.

Earlier this week, Google confirmed that it is buying YouTube for US$1.65 billion in a stock transaction slated to close by the end of the year.

User-uploaded video might be making all the waves on the Internet right now but the future lies in professional content, according to the head of one video portal.

Using a self-propagating worm that exploits a scripting vulnerability common to most dynamic Web sites, a Los Angeles teenager made himself the most popular member of community Web site MySpace.com earlier this month. While the attack caused little damage, the technique could be used to destroy Web site data or steal private information -- even from enterprise users behind protected networks, according to an Internet security firm.

New financing options and highly publicized price promotions are helping automobile manufacturers drive more traffic to their Web sites, according to comScore Media Metrix.

EBay has continued its acquisition spree by agreeing to buy comparison shopping site Shopping.com for about US$620 million (AU$820.139 million) in cash, the companies said Wednesday.

Media conglomerate IAC/InterActiveCorp agreed Monday to buy search and portal Web site operator Ask Jeeves in a stock-swap deal the companies valued at around US$1.85 billion.

Traffic to VeriSign's Web site increased 541 percent in September, mainly because of the launch of its controversial Site Finder service, which redirected mistyped URLs to its site, according to results released Tuesday by comScore Media Metrix.

Cerulean Studios is readying patches for Trillian to thwart moves by Microsoft and Yahoo to lock the popular instant messaging (IM) client out of their IM networks.

Yahoo seems to have taken a hint from Microsoft and is planning changes to its instant messaging (IM) service that could lock out users of third-party IM clients.