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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is still signaling an interest in a deal to buy part of Yahoo. Ballmer said Thursday that a deal would help improve Microsoft’s Web search business by expanding the base of users. More people using the search engine means more advertisers — and, Ballmer says, a larger pool of advertisers will allow for more tailored ads next to search queries.
With the costs of home-schooling a special-needs child, Arlene Dawes of Raleigh, N.C., says dial-up Internet is more attuned to her budget than broadband. Chuck Hester says the high-speed Internet options available in his rural neighborhood near Little Rock, Ark., are too pricey. Lightning speed Internet is the wave of the future — but in a recession, good old dial-up service might get a longer look.
AOL, struggling to remake itself as an advertising-based company, has named former Yahoo executive Gregory Coleman as head of its online advertising unit, making him the third person in that role in 17 months. Coleman, Yahoo’s former executive vice president for global sales, replaces Lynda Clarizio, who took the position last March.