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CES: Yahoo set to battle Microsoft, Google

AT CES this week, Yahoo head Marissa Meyer stepped up the ailing search company’s battle plans as it prepares to take on Microsoft and Google.

Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer. (AFP)

US spying: Yahoo! chief fears jail for going against NSA demands

Yahoo! chief Marissa Mayer said she feared winding up in prison for treason if she refused to comply with US spy demands for data.

Scarcity of female geeks questioned

Why is it that although women make up 49% of the UK’s labour force, they account for just 17% of IT and telecommunications professionals?

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New chief must revive Yahoo’s yodel

Marissa Mayer is taking her talent for revenue enhancement from Google to the competition. Josh Halliday & Charles Arthur report.

Google releases Google Health for medical records

Google on Monday unveiled Google Health, a long-anticipated United States health information service that combines the leading web company’s classic search services with a user’s…

Google aims to store patients’ health records

Google will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that is likely to raise more concerns about the volume of…

iPhone tops list of 2007 Google searches

Technology and entertainment topped Google’s searches in 2007, with the iPhone grabbing the number one slot on a list of the fastest-rising search terms in the United States.…