San Francisco — Watch out Google! A band of smaller Internet rivals are forging alliance in hopes of jump-starting online local ad sales in the face of global search engine leader Google Inc.’s growing clout in the market, the Wall Street Journal reports.

Los Angeles — The end-of-year backslapping continues today following latest statistics from Experian Hitwise which revealed that 2010 has witnessed social networking phenomenon Facebook officially usurp search engine behemoth Google as the most-visited Web site in the United States between January to November 2010, sucking up 8.93 percent of all Web traffic during that time, […]

San Francisco — In the latest turn of events in a long-running possible class-action lawsuit about Google’s parked domain program, a federal judge has ordained the search engine giant to reveal the identities of four AdWords advertisers who were clients of Internet marketing agency Wpromote.

New York — Billionaire, Microsoft Corp co-founder “Paul Allen” yesterday refiled a last-minute revision of a patent infringement lawsuit against 11 popular tech companies namely: Apple Inc., Google Inc., Facebook, Netflix, Yahoo and others, which includes specific allegations of patent violation.

New York — It seems that the once innocent and well-meant start-up that is now known as Google is once again chomping its way through the internet is making waves as it pushes into new arenas. The Mountain-View, California-based search engine titan Google acquired the company that made it easy for travelers to compare airfares, […]

Mountain View, California — As the market for educational apps and software is rapidly escalating, search engine behemoth Google Inc. is reportedly in talks with educational software companies to help build a marketplace for online learning programs, and plans to sell their programs through its App Marketplace, an industry whose value may approach $5 billion […]

San Francisco — Giant online retailer Amazon.com has never disclosed sales figures for its e-reader, the Kindle. It still has not, but the company on Monday trumpeted that the latest version of its popular Kindle e-reader, the Wi-Fi and third-generation Kindle, have surpassed its previous all-time bestseller, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the company […]

London — According to a report released by Experian Hitwise, indicates that for the first time ever Facebook trounced its biggest rival Google to become Britain’s most visited web page on Christmas Day, accounting for 10.50% of all UK Internet visits on that day.

New York — Popular internet telephony service Skype has not had a very good week, which has been dealing with some serious downtime issues, but it looks like there is good news on the horizon. Skype is all set to knock FaceTime off its high chair, Skype is finally going to enter the market of […]

San Francisco — Popular retailer site Amazon over the weekend said that sales of Microsoft’s three-license Windows 7 Family Pack will end next week, according to Amazon, or once they have run out of stock or on December 31st, whichever occurs soonest.