Neowin News Feed for: Stakes

Google beats Microsoft, Coke in brand stakes

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:27:07 +0000

Google has knocked Microsoft off the top spot and been named the most powerful global brand of 2007 in a recently published ranking by market researcher Millward Brown Optimor. Factoring in financial performance and consumer... Read more...

MSN Stakes Local-Search Claim on Virtual Earth

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 16:05:31 +0000

Microsoft plans to announce its initial push into local search on Monday as it takes a step closer to launching a competitor to Google's online aerial maps. The company's Internet division is expected to release... Read more...

Patents raise stakes in search wars

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 09:41:58 +0000

Web companies are quietly amassing arsenals of search patents, as they prepare for a high-stakes war over the profitable technology that could one day control how most people get information. The battle lines were drawn... Read more...

Patent owner stakes claim in Net ad suit

Wed, 07 Jan 2004 23:21:22 +0000

Just as the online advertising market seems back on track, a patent enforcer with broad rights to Web ad methods wants a cut of the profits. InternetAd Systems, a recently formed company... Read more...

Saudi Prince buys AOL and Priceline stakes

Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:23:34 +0000

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed has bought more than $1 billion worth of shares in Citigroup, AOL Time Warner and Priceline.com over the past six months, his company said on Monday. The prince,... Read more...