Mountain View, California — Google is currently testing a revolutionary redesign feature in its search results pages that enables users to view full-page previews of the pages generated by its algorithms., a very interesting addition to its search page that slots in nicely with Google Instant, Blogstorm reports.

Sunnyvale, California — Just at the start of this week made headlines for its executive exodus, Yahoo seeking to maintain its hold and capitalize on the display advertising market, Tuesday disclosed on its corporate blog that it has acquired the San Francisco-based Dapper, a startup that focuses on fancy contextual display ads, i.e. ads that […]

Redmond, Washington — US software monopolist Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it has acquired AVIcode, Inc., a Maryland-based private firm that delivers performance monitoring for applications and services on Microsoft’s .NET Framework, the companies announced Wednesday.

Mountain View, California — Reinventing the way people watch TV and browse the Web has never been this exciting — at least for now. Search engine giant Google on Monday announced a passel of partnerships for its Google TV service with outfits involved in video, music, and other more: CNBC, HBO, Turner, the NBA, Pandora, […]

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft is heading for a mobile race. Barely a week from today, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer along with AT&T Mobility & Consumer Markets CEO Ralph de la Vega will be appearing at a New York City press conference on October 11, to unveil the widely anticipated “Windows Phone 7” smartphones, where the […]

San Francisco — Google Inc., committed to keeping its promise of buying one company a month and now having more than 20 acquisitions this year, has once again in a low-profile move acquired a new startup. This time, the lucky company is San Francisco, California-based BlindType — the creators of an application based around touchscreen […]

Mountain View, California — Internet search engine giant Google in its relentless efforts to make the Web faster, the company over the weekend announced that it is trimming down the size of image files, which make up about 65% of the bytes on the Web, and released a developer preview of a new open-source image […]

Sunnyvale, California — Web portal Yahoo, which recently lost some of its key officials, and CEO Carol Bartz is encountering what may be the toughest challenge during her tenure since she took charge of Yahoo almost two years ago. The struggling search engine company late last week confirmed the departure of three senior-most executives, including […]

Mountain View, California — In an age of compactness with 140-character communication and mobile devices, URL shorteners are a godsend gift. Search engine leader Google’s URL shortener, which, until now, has been closely tied to its existing products, is now debuting as a stand-alone service. The company’s Goo.gl URL shortening service is now open to […]

San Francisco — Social networking colossus Facebook, on Thursday announced some significant upgrades to its photo-sharing product: the ability to share high-resolution photos, “tag” people in bulk, and browse photos in a more streamlined fashion that does not load individual pages each time a new photo is viewed.