Speculation is swirling that the Redmond, Wash., software titan could be considering acquiring big Internet properties, such as Time Warner's AOL unit and News Corp.'s MySpace social network, to gain a stronger foothold in search advertising and become a bigger threat to industry leader Google.
Google doesn't have much to lose here because it's never had a foothold in travel search, but its purchase of ITA is very strategic as a way of reversing that.
Google is seeking to establish a foothold in air travel search.
Its search share foothold isn't going anywhere anytime soon, and in many ways search is still the portal to the Internet.
Microsoft, seeking a foothold in the Internet search business, approached Google within the last two months to discuss a partnership or even a merger, The New York Times said on Friday.
After all, while Google may not have had a strong foothold in the Chinese search market from an overall perspective, indications are that they did have a very solid hold of the better educated, young elite class in China.
So impressive was their tempo that they actually forced Spain to change systems midway through the first period, swapping to a back four, in search of a foothold.
The move will give Google a large foothold in the online travel search market, and control over a critical data source used by many of its competitors, including Kayak.com, Orbitz.com and Microsoft's Bing.
With the Democrats in desperate search of a foothold in red America, the percentage of religious nones growing and evangelicals not backing down anytime soon, that result may even be a matter of civil and political necessity.
The new streaming service DAZN will continue its search for a foothold in the U.S. market by hawking Joshua's June 1 U.S. debut against barely known Jarrell "Big Baby" Miller at Madison Square Garden.
