Sunnyvale, California — Yes, Yahoo still has a search engine, the Internet company on its Search Blog announced that it has enhanced its Yahoo Search Assist tool (the search suggestions that pops-up as you start entering a query), now displays real-time search suggestions when you start typing in search queries in either the Web or […]

Washington — The vast empire of Amazon.com continues to expand, and has just added another interesting acquisition to its arsenal after last year’s Zappos. Woot, the whimsical online store which sells only one product a day, has been acquired by Web retail giant Amazon, the company announced Wednesday.

New York — The world’s largest PC maker, Hewlett-Packard on Thursday disclosed that it has wrapped up its US$1.2 billion acquisition of Palm and confirmed it will use the company’s WebOS in future tablets and netbooks.

Mountain View, California — In its biggest acquisition deal of the year, Google Inc. is fully geared to rock up the online travel market with its $700 million acquisition of ITA Software Inc., whose airline reservation search tools power leading Web-based travel agencies like Chicago-based Orbitz Worldwide Inc., empowering the Internet’s search engine behemoth an […]

Sunnyvale, California — Striving to keep pace with it rivals, Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc., on Thursday unleashed two free new Android apps — Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger, in addition to a Yahoo! Search Widget for Google’s mobile operating system. The company also stated that it had beefed up its Mail and News sites for […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo Wednesday said it has teamed up with IBM to deliver world-class customer care services in  Spanish, German, French, Italian, Turkish, Polish, Romanian, and Russian — as well as for future Arabic-language versions of its products — will be delivered for Yahoo by IBM from a new center in Cairo. IBM to […]

Mountain View, California — Looking for current news about the World Affairs, Social Events and Technology Inventions? Internet search engine behemoth Google Inc.’s long-rumored makeover of Google News is finally a reality. The company on Wednesday afternoon rolled out changes to its News page that give users more ways to customize the kinds of headlines […]

San Francisco — In an engaging turn of events, according to the Wall Street Journal, Google owned video sharing website YouTube recently announced that it plans to launch “skippable” ads later this year, senior product manager Baljeet Singh said Tuesday at a Google press conference. If you are producing or using online video ads then […]

Los Angeles — MapQuest Inc., a popular online mapping website in the US, owned by AOL — striving to recapture its status as most-visited mapping website from Google Maps — has just unfurled a revamped interface and several new features, with the aim of boosting the site’s capabilities to not only display maps but also […]

Beijing, China — In a bid to maintain its presence in mainland China, Internet search engine behemoth Google Inc., changed tack in China to address government objection about its attempts to evade censorship by redirecting users to an uncensored site in Hong Kong, as it vied to get its business license renewed in the world’s […]