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Search engines Bing, Google and Yahoo have partnered over a search optimization initiative in a project to support a common set of schemas for structured data markup on web pages, reports WebProNews.

“Over the past two years, Bing has worked to improve the search experience to better reflect both the evolving Web and changing consumer habits,” said Bing representative.

”While this effort has a major ‘geek factor,’ it serves as quite a significant advancement for both the search industry and consumers,” he added.

Elevation Partners, a private equity company, has acquired a $120 million stake in Facebook from private shareholders valuing the company at $23 billion, as reported by the sources with the knowledge of the matter.

It is the second round of Elevation’s investment in shares of the social networking company through the secondary markets which gives the equity firm a 1.5% stake in Facebook.

As Webroot Software has found, about 20% of all online threats come from web sites, not email. Moreover, these web threats are increasingly sophisticated - and increasingly used not only for fun, but for financial gain.

Therefore, the company claims that over the last 18 months the volume of malware attacks has increased dramatically.

Still don’t know what to present for New Year? And it’s just a couple of hours or even a few minutes left! Or you probably want to gladden your foreign partner or colleague? Or you’ve already become annoyed with all these traditional New Year gifts like snow globes, Christmas ornaments, etc? So, you just want to gift your beloved with something very special and original? Actually that’s not a problem! We’ll help you to find some of the most original digital gifts at large of the Web. 

The American Association of Advertising Agencies’ 2009 Mendelsohn Affluent Survey says 61% of Americans in households that earn more than $100,000 have visited an online retail site in the past 30 days. That percentage jumps to 63% for those in households that earn more than $250,000.
In fact, online retail sites are the second-most visited web site category among those wealthy consumers, behind only search web sites (70%), and ahead of categories such as social networks (58%), general news (56%) and entertainment sites (45%).

 Using the scientific calculation the researchers at Cnet.uk have figured out the weight of the Internet. Basing on the actual figures on the number of PCs as well as other hardware the researchers compiled a report that allows us to learn how many kilos in total does Internet takes in fact.

Halliburton Investor Relations (Halliburton IR), a full-service investor relations firm serving clients in the U.S. and abroad, today announced the launch of its newly redesigned Web site. With this launch, Halliburton IR expands its service offerings and showcases its innovative investor relations strategies, built on strong Wall Street relationships and responsive client service.