Investor’s Business Daily - A Google exit from China clearly opens the door for rivals such as Baidu and Microsoft while leaving the search leader with few near-term options for capitalizing on the fastest-growing Internet market in the world, analysts say.
PC World - Microsoft plans to start a small-scale pilot of a microblogging service aimed at business users that it has been experimenting with in Office Labs.
PC World - Earlier this week Microsoft unveiled a preview of the engine behind its next-generation Web browser, Internet Explorer (IE) 9. Microsoft is still diligently working to convince many customers to make the switch from the archaic IE6 to the current IE8, but the march of development never stops so Microsoft is already hard at work on the next version as well.
AP - Google looks likely to win a European high court battle over how it uses keywords in advertising — but legal experts say the issue is likely to keep rattling the search giant.
AFP - Internet giant Google is adding two native Central American languages — Maya and Nahuatl — to its universal search service, a company official said Thursday.
NewsFactor - In the wake of the browser choice screen in Europe, Opera Software is reporting a dramatic uptick in browser downloads. The company said more than half the European downloads of Opera 10.50 have come directly from Microsoft’s choice screen since early March.
PC World - Startup Viridity Software is releasing a new tool on Monday to help companies keep track of the power being used by each piece of IT equipment in their data centers, with a view to improving energy efficiency.
PC World - This week on the podcast, Wired’s Dylan Tweney and Brian X. Chen visit the PCWorld podcast studio for some verbal jousting over Google’s Android operating system and Apple’s iPad.
AFP - President Barack Obama Saturday subtly shifted US rhetoric on Iran, pledging to ensure Iranians could access the Internet without fear of censorship, and blaming Tehran for isolating itself.
Reuters - Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and an inspirational Web site on Friday gave $30,000 toward the college education of a teenage lesbian whose high school prom was canceled when she asked to attend with a girl.
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