Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Yahoo! Inc." produced 30 items.
| 1. Divisions over how to set the standard | February 17, 2011 |
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To create growth and jobs, the EU needs to define standards for information technology. The debate in the European Union about information and communication technology... |
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| 2. Lost in (automatic) translation | January 27, 2011 |
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Translation between the EU's 23 official languages, always a costly affair, has just become more expensive. One of the defining features of the European Union is that it was... |
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| 3. Web giants in breach of data privacy laws | May 26, 2010 |
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Google, Yahoo and Microsoft accused of failing to take steps to make users' data anonymous. The EU's data protection authorities said yesterday (26 May) that Google, Yahoo... | |
| 4. Outwitting Iran's cyber censors | May 12, 2010 |
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The EU can play a more active role in levelling out the information ‘playing field' inside Iran. When I visited Brussels recently, many EU officials wanted to discuss... |
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| 5. The hidden dangers of socialising | May 6, 2010 |
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Are giving too much information away on social networking sites? With the explosive development of social networking sites and internet search engines, Europeans are putting... |
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| 6. Microsoft-Yahoo deal gets Commission backing | February 18, 2010 |
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Computing giants hope to challenge Google's internet search dominance. The European Commission today (18 February) gave its approval to a ten-year tie-up between Microsoft... |
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| 7. Movers & Shakers | November 19, 2009 |
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| 8. Google's books deal under scrutiny | September 3, 2009 |
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Commission to investigate US copyright settlement. A European Commission hearing on 7 September will investigate whether a US legal settlement concerning Google... |
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| 9. Business in brief | September 18, 2008 |
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| 10. Google-Yahoo ad deal under scrutiny | September 16, 2008 |
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EU regulators are looking into a deal that would boost advertising revenues of the world's largest search engines. The European Commission has confirmed that it is... | |
| 11. Google deal tests e-frontiers | August 28, 2008 |
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The next big transatlantic skirmish for the European Commission seems likely to be with the giant internet search-engine Google, a prospect which will surely raise a smile at... |
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| 12. The EU needs a budget to fight internet censorship | April 3, 2008 |
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Brussels should follow Washington's example and set aside funds to counter censorship. The internet is a world of opportunities and information, but unfortunately many... | |
| 13. Cash-rich Microsoft seeks Yahoo approval | February 7, 2008 |
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Competition regulators on both sides of the Atlantic are readying themselves to examine Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6 billion (€30bn) offer for Yahoo, announced on... | |
| 14. Google faces EU charges over DoubleClick deal | January 10, 2008 |
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The European Commission is planning to issue a statement of objections at the end of this month over the proposed €2.2 billion Google-DoubleClick merger, according to a... | |
| 15. Google takes a hit over data privacy | October 18, 2007 |
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Privacy regulators are concerned about the web giant's activities. Lorraine Mallinder reports. The world's favourite search engine has taken on a slightly more sinister aura... | |
| 16. A Belgian ‘cache 22' after court ruling | March 15, 2007 |
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A courtroom victory by an obscure Belgian copyright society has potentially serious international implications for the whole internet industry. In many countries the... | |
| 17. Toll-charges ahead on internet freeway | July 6, 2006 |
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Normally Americans offer ideas critical of government, emphasising free-market policies as an alternative to Europe's state-centred, socialistic tendencies. But in years to... | |
| 18. The disturbing signs of our times | February 23, 2006 |
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If the EU has opened up once cosily protected markets, digital communications are now playing havoc with cultural boundaries. It took only some canny mullahs with access to... | |
| 19. Iron Frau shows her mettle with Putin | January 19, 2006 |
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New German Chancellor Angela Merkel continues to win praise for her international diplomacy after visits to Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President George W. Bush... | |
| 20. Digital download giants facing the music | November 3, 2005 |
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Smaller digital music providers have the most to gain from the European Commission's recent recommendation (12 October) for a single EU-wide music licence, which would make... | |
