From a financial perspective, Microsoft’s new search partnership with Yahoo doesn’t even come close to the $45 billion acquisition bid made by the Redmond company last year. Microsoft expects to spend somewhere between "a couple hundred" and "several hundred" million dollars to integrate the technologies over the next couple years, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said [...]

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In an email to Microsoft employees this morning, CEO Steve Ballmer explained the company’s planned search advertising partnership with Yahoo and sought to reassure workers whose current jobs could be cut as a result of Yahoo taking over premium search advertising sales for both companies.
"Given the huge opportunities in search and online advertising, we plan to [...]

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The good folks over at Xconomy and the Washington Technology Industry Association will be hosting their summer celebration and Battle of the Tech Bands this Thursday night at the Pyramid Alehouse in Seattle. We’re looking forward to checking out the scene and hearing which Seattle geeks can truly rock out.
There’s certainly some musical talent in [...]

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MySpace co-founder and University of Washington grad Chris DeWolfe is contemplating a new online venture that could pull in as much as $100 million in financing, reports TechCrunch.
TechCrunch declined to report on the specific industry segment that DeWolfe is attacking, but they did say that there’s strong interest in the Internet executive’s next move. Apparently, [...]

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Consolidation in the mobile-phone industry may not be over as smaller carriers look for ways to contend with leaders AT&T and Verizon Wireless, more  and IBM Deal Could Spark M&A  Big Blue’s pricey purchase of software maker SPSS augurs more mergers and acquisitions—at higher valuations—as recession fears ebb, more 
and Obesity: Now 9% of All Health Spending  A [...]

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In a long-awaited pairing aimed at taking on Google, Yahoo will handle ad sales while Microsoft gets the real prize: data on who’s doing what online, more  and Energy-Use Software to Rival Google’s?  Efficiency 2.0 keeps a low profile as it develops elaborate algorithms—its "secret sauce"—to curb energy use and rival the big guys, more 
and What’s [...]

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Give Bill Gates and Microsoft credit for seeing the potential of Tablet PCs long ago. Microsoft launched its inaugural Windows XP Tablet PC Edition back in 2002. But despite the Microsoft chairman’s interest in the technology, the Redmond company was never able to expand the tablet computing beyond "niche" markets, in the words of Ray [...]

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For all the chatter on Twitter, the social networking tool is still very much driven by short written messages. But imagine if you could add your own voice to your Tweets?
That’s the idea behind Chir.ps, a new service that launched today from Seattle-based Entertonement. In addition to broadcasting audio messages via Twitter, the sounds also [...]

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The British government has told civil servants: Go forth and tweet. The government published guidelines Tuesday for its departments on using the microblogging service Twitter., more  and Twitter tiff: Moldy ‘tweet’ ticks off Chicago firm  A Chicago company ticked off over a former tenant’s moldy ‘tweet’ is positioning itself for what could be a $50,000 Twitter [...]

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