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China’s fast-growing electronic commerce site that is partly owned by Yahoo, Alibaba.com, said Monday that its chief executive and chief operating officer had each resigned after an internal investigation into fraud at the company. In a statement released late Monday, Alibaba said its longtime chief executive, David Wei, and the chief operating officer, Elvis Lee, [...]

Any doubts about Microsoft’s sincerity in its online efforts should have been dispelled this week, after the company lashed back at Google’s accusations that Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, copies its Web-search results. The tussle began Feb. 1, when the blog Search Engine Land published details of what it called Google’s “sting operation” against Bing. Google [...]

Facebook is already challenging big Web businesses such as Google (GOOG.O) and Yahoo (YHOO.O) for users’ time online and for advertising dollars, thanks to its audience of more than 500 million users and the information they share. Facebook, recently valued at $50 billion, sees opportunities to extend its advertising business beyond the gaming sector, a [...]

Nearly everyone of us rely on e-mail as one of our primary communication tools. And given the number of messages we send and receive, we do it with remarkable success. However as with anything, the more e-mails we send, the more likely we are to screw one up. And simple e-mail mistakes can be disastrous. [...]

As the struggling Internet media company strives to increase revenue and boost margins, Inc. (YHOO) said Tuesday it was cutting about 600 jobs, or about 4% of its work force. Kim Rubey, Yahoo spokeswoman, said the cuts were largely aimed at the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company’s products group, which builds advertising products, Web properties like the [...]

According to published reports, Google Inc. had offered more than $5 billion to acquire local-coupon site Groupon, has apparently failed for now. Groupon, who has ties to local merchants and some 35 million global subscribers, has decided to stay independent for now, according to reports by the Chicago Tribune, The Wall Street Journal and The [...]

As Google is rumored to be closing a deal to acquire wildly popular Groupon, it’s also delaying the launch of its social networking feature. Dubbed “Google Me” by the media, talk about the Facebook rival first grabbed attention in July, when a Wall Street Journal report broke the news that the search engine giant was [...]

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz announced on Tuesday that Yahoo is developing technology to help publishers personalize their websites, in much the same way that it helps them to populate their sites with ads. “We’re looking at helping people manage their content,” Bartz said at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, during a keynote appearance [...]