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The global recession, shrinking advertising sales and fears that the Internet could render big media empires obsolete provide an ominous backdrop for executives at this week's Sun Valley conference.

Microsoft Corp., seeking an edge over Mountain View-based Google Inc. and Sunnyvale-based Yahoo Inc., will include updates from Twitter Inc.

Think of the most popular brands in celebrity news, and you'll probably come up with a small list that includes Entertainment Tonight, US Weekly and People.

Not your typical targets for a music copyright infringement lawsuit: The big companies that run paid online music subscription services.

Microsoft Corp. is making early gains on Internet search leaders Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.

The digital ad industry will announce today sweeping new self-policing guidelines aimed at providing consumers with options for how they want to interact with online ad businesses that gather data about them.

LOS ANGELES, US: The New York Power Authority agreed on Tuesday to sell low-cost power to Yahoo Inc to build a data canter and to Sunworks Solar LLC to build a solar panel manufacturing plant.

Mark Farner, of the 1970s band Grand Funk Railroad, is one of numerous plaintiffs alleging the online on-demand music-streaming services of Microsoft Corp., RealNetworks Inc.

And, yesterday, Baldwin became an official Yahoo exec, as SVP of global integrated marketing and brand management.

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Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday it has named Penny Baldwin as senior vice president of global integrated marketing and brand management, a new position.

Internet giant Yahoo Inc. plans to open a data center in western New York. Gov. David Paterson says that the center in Lockport north of Buffalo is expected to begin operating in January 2011 and will create about 125 jobs.

This story was written by Alex Ferreyra. Michael Kolowich , the President and Founder of ZDNet, has started Channel One Marketing , a video marketing firm.

Jun. 29, 2009, 8:26 AM Microsoft lobbyists mopped the floor with Google last summer and fall, convincing anyone who mattered that Google's plan to sell ads against Yahoo search results was the plot of a dangerous monopolist.

At the beginning of last year, Yahoo made a fairly large acquisition with the purchase of online video distribution and advertising platform provider Maven Networks .

David Ebersman, a former executive at biotech firm Genentech, was named Monday as Facebook's chief financial officer.

After six months of grooming, LinkedIn Corp. founder Reid Hoffman has decided former Yahoo Inc.

Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is not widely known for subtlety, and that characteristic was on display at her first shareholder meeting since taking the company's wheel.

Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. said the number of visitors to their Web sites surged after Michael Jackson a s death this week, as people hunted for the latest news on the King of Pop.

In the midst of a weak economy that has cut into the market for job listings, Yahoo HotJobs is turning to a variation of the pay-per-click advertising model.