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Microsoft buys stake in CareerBuilder

Microsoft have announced that is has acquired a minority stake of 4% in job-listings partner CareerBuilder.com and will use that job-search engine on MSN sites overseas in a bid to capture more of the classified advertising money migrating to the Web. Microsoft has also agreed to extend a pre-existing partnership with CareerBuilder until 2013. The deal, in which Microsoft’s MSN

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Live Earth Australia Revealed

Organizers of Live Earth have now announced details of the Australian curtain-raising show for the 7-continent, 24-hour Live Earth concerts to be held on 7/7/07. The Australian concert will be staged at Aussie Stadium in Sydney. And tickets for the show go on sale in Australia Friday, May 18 at 9.00 a.m. AEST at: www.ticketek.com. The global concert will begin in Sydney

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Windows Live Hotmail Tour – Why update?

Windows Live Hotmail is the next generation of MSN Hotmail and now that its official launched there’s even more reasons for you to update. But are you still deciding whether or not to upgrade at this current point in time? Well if you haven’t decided whether or not to update your MSN Hotmail to Windows Live Hotmail yet, or if

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Microsoft Launches Windows Live Hotmail Worldwide

Microsoft Corp. today announced that Windows Live Hotmail, the successor to MSN Hotmail, is launching globally in 36 languages. The most significant upgrade for Hotmail since it pioneered the webmail industry in 1996, the new service has been built to be a vast improvement over the previous Hotmail offering, having incorporated input from more than 20 million beta testers. Windows

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Windows Live Hotmail Launches in US on Monday

I’ve mentioned before of a possible launch date of Windows Live Hotmail in the US sometime in the second week of May and well it looks like I could be right, as according to sources familiar with the company’s plans Windows Live Hotmail will be launching this Monday the 7th of May 2007. And though as of yet Microsoft have

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Flickr to Replace Yahoo Photos

Just got word from my friend Eric Cheung that Yahoo is to shut down Yahoo Photos, with Flickr replacing Yahoo Photos. Yahoo said that users of Yahoo Photos would be given an option of either shifting to Flickr or other photo sharing websites. Announcing the decision Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield said that users could move their pictures to other sites

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Microsoft and Yahoo once again in Discussions for Merger!

Both the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal are reporting that sources say Microsoft and Yahoo were are talking again about how they might merge or cooperate. To quote from the The New York Post it says: Recent talks between Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. over how to band together betray increasing unrest at Microsoft over how to compete

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Windows Live Spaces Roadtrip to Live Earth

Here’s your chance to score the ultimate summer job representing Microsoft! Windows Live Spaces has partnered up with MSN Live Earth the Concert for a Climate in Crisis, to sponsor an adventurous cross country road trip from Seattle to NYC over 5 weeks while meeting folks from across the nation (USA) and doing your part to make the earth a better

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Windows Live Hotmail Launches ‘Email Britain’ Campaign

  To celebrate the UK launch of the new Windows Live Hotmail, the UK’s no 1 email service has announced a unique collaboration with the British Library, to create the first ever archive of British emails today. The ‘Email Britain’ campaign, which will run throughout May, asks the British public to make email history by forwarding a memorable or significant

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Windows Live Hotmail Beta Signature Badges!

Got the following invitation message in one of my Windows Live Hotmail Beta account inboxes today inviting me to download some cool Windows Live Hotmail Beta Email Signature Badges as well as offering me some great Windows Vista Offers, though the Windows Vista offers are US Only it’s still cool to see the Windows Live Hotmail Beta Team at Microsoft sending