Flickr Rebellion Brews at Specter of MS Acquisition
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A small but vocal minority on Flickr are already staging cyber-protests at the prospect of a Microsoft takeover of Flickr's owner, Yahoo. Flickr is one of several popular Web 2.0 sites owned by Yahoo that loyal users fear will suffer under Microsoft ownership.
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LONDON - MSN is upping the stakes in the battle for online and desktop domination with the launch of a new set of communication services to include blogging and picture sharing.
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The social networking site now allows its members to upload 'professional photographs,' which it had previously nixed in favor of emphasizing its strictly-business aims.
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The Library of Congress Wednesday launched a pilot project with photo-sharing site Flickr to publish some 3,000 photos.
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&quot;The PIC is being sold to consumers through service providers, like VSNL, which is a different approach for computing devices,&quot; said Shane Rau of IDC.
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Following a deal last August in which Microsoft agreed to handle all ad sales for popular social networking site Facebook, the Redmond company has signed a similar agreement with social news site Digg. Microsoft is working hard to establish itself in the ad industry, but faces stiff competition from Google.
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Wall Street Journal reports  Microsoft may take a stake of up to $500 million in social network, which could push valuation toward the $10 billion mark.
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Microsoft Corp is talking to Facebook about buying a minority stake in the fast-growing online social network that could value the company at $10 billion or more, the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Monday.
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A pilot project aims to share Library of Congress photos on Flickr and enlist the collective wisdom of Web site visitors to endow them with descriptive tags.
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Like watching your dad dance at the prom The Wall Street Journal says Microsoft is looking to acquire a stake in famed Web 2.0 social networking operation Facebook. Referencing unnamed sources "familiar with the matter", the finance writers suggested Redmond might take five per cent of Facebook for "roughly $300m to $500m".â¦
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Yahoo! gets into the game with its latest acquisition.
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Microsoft Corp is talking to Facebook  about buying a minority stake in the fast-growing online social  network that could value the company at $10 billion or more,  the Wall Street Journal reported on its Web site on Monday.
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BREAKING NEWS - This afternoon, Microsoft won the apparent battle for an equity stake in social networking applications provider Facebook, making a $240 million equity investment in the company. In exchange, Microsoft will become the exclusive third-party supplier of Facebook's advertising platform.
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The latest rumor to sweep the world of high tech claims that Microsoft has its eyes on eBay for a possible buyout. Last week, a report in the New York Post said that Microsoft has engaged in preliminary talks with eBay about acquiring the online auction company and merging it with MSN.
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Tagging is catching on as people realize the convenience of categorizing sites and files online, and as large Internet players like Google and Yahoo, which owns Flickr and del.icio.us, offer tagging features in their services.
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Microsoft is apparently looking to purchase a five percent stake in social networking site Facebook, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Blog: The arrival of the Yahoo Photos horde has disrupted the statistical-popularity contests on display at the Flickr camera finder site.