San Francisco — Google is finally stepping into location-based extensions ad format with the introduction of mobile banner add that show users nearby services with map attributes. Mountain View-based search engine leader Google today announced on its Google Mobile Ads Blog the introduction of its new Location Extension Ad Format for mobile devices, that it […]

Mountain View, California — Striving to keep its cash-cow in the limelight search and advertising titan Google has just disclosed some upcoming changes to its policies for its AdWords third party partners, making it a requirement for them to share certain basic information about their performance on campaigns with their clients. As reported by Jason Shafton of the […]

Russia — A court in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia has blocked access to YouTube after the website was accused of hosting “Russia for Russians,” which was judged to be an extremist propaganda. Along with YouTube, four other web sites for “immoderate” content in a judgment that promises to raise new worries about free speech. Russia’s anti-extremism laws […]

Las Vegas — At the Black Hat security conference on Wednesday, Adobe Systems Inc., announced that they will soon be adopting Microsoft Corp.’s pattern of sharing information about vulnerabilities in its software with security vendors before the companies release security updates, in order to better protect users against electronic threats. Entering into this association with […]

Redmond, Washington — Leaving privacy issues aside, it is hard to grumble too much about products like Bing Streetside and Google Street View, considering such products has long wowed users with its option to view the road inside a 360-degree panorama. But of late, the geniuses over at Microsoft Research have taken the street-view idea […]

In the modern age where global warming is an alarming issue, it’s good to see businesses that go green.Green Revolution is such an organization that sells Green Consulting services. They also have a wide range of energy and water saving products. Jonathan Friedman, the owner of Green Revolution, is a graduate in Arts in Economics […]

New York — Facebook is the undisputed mogul of social networking at the moment, but search engine titan Google Inc. has held discussions with various online gaming companies as it attempts to develop a new service to compete with social networking website Facebook, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the […]

Mountain View, California — Google on Monday unveiled its updated Maps for Android (version 4.4), an upgrade that includes easier access to places of attraction nearby for Android phones, making its Place Pages business listings more usable. The new application adds a dedicated tool for seeking out local points of interest.

San Francisco — Jeeves may have vanished into thin air, but according to Ask.com, he is anything but forgotten. Ask.com, which has experimented with minimal success to transform itself into a search engine on par with those of Google and Microsoft, is making a shift into new direction and attempting to reinvent its search strategy […]

Tokyo, Japan — In what appears be a surprising blow to the massive search alliance between Microsoft and Yahoo — Japan’s top Internet portal Yahoo Japan and search engine giant Google Inc., is working on a deal to grab the algorithmic search business for Yahoo Japan, the apparent deal that would dominate the Japanese market […]