Redmond, Washington — According to sources close to the situation, one of Microsoft’s most distinguished executives announced today that he is leaving the company. “Alex Gounares,” who until today was Microsoft’s corporate vice president for Advertising Research and Development, has been appointed as the chief technology officer of New York-based AOL and will be moving […]

Los Angeles — Exactly one year after releasing the beta of one of the Web’s hottest realtime search engines, OneRiot has officially exits out of beta today, and while doing so has also launched a richer alternative to Twitter’s trending topics with a new engine that analyzes hot keywords suddenly emerging among thousands of status […]

Mountain View, California — Google has long been making efforts to crack the TV ad market, but the search giant Google has finally spread-out its wings into the TV business by buying a stake in a startup called Invidi Technologies that helps advertisers target cable and satellite viewers with “addressable” ads.

Mountain View, California — Late last year, Google rolled out a very cool mobile product called Google Goggles. The Mountain View, Calif., search engine leader Google on Thursday released an enhanced version of its Goggles application to read and translate English, French, Italian, German, or Spanish after pictures of words are taken with cameras built […]

Sunnyvale, California — On the heels of a disappointing $100 million ad campaign, which Yahoo unveiled late last year, is having another go at revitalizing its brand with a second big-budget advertising campaign, hoping to gain traffic to its home page and win back share in the Internet-search market with a new ad blitz that […]

London — For the past five years, British e-mail users with Google accounts have been deprived access to @gmail.com email address. But on Tuesday, the search engine company has settled a long-running trademark dispute with a British research firm, and now, finally ditching the two-word moniker are now able to change the end of their […]

San Francisco — If you hold an AdWords account then you know the levels of data that are created can sometimes becomes unmanageable and, moreover, you can start to ask questions such as “At what point during the day am I seeing a surge in sales?” without an easy way to find those answers. Responding […]

Mountain View, California — Google did not invent search, but it is one of the most valuable terminus a quo for more than 1 billion Google searches a day, is getting its most substantial renovation in years. The Mountain View, Calif., search engine leader is rolling out a major redesign for its search results on […]

Redmond, Washington — Software behemoth Microsoft on Tuesday, took the wraps off of a new tool called Spindex, an experimental online service that pools “social” content from various and sundry online sources, including Facebook, Twitter, RSS feeds, and Redmond’s own Bing search engine. The project was initiated by Microsoft’s Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs, — […]

Mountain View, California — In an attempt to compete with the likes of Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other sellers of downloadable, digital books, search giant Google on Tuesday said it plans to begin selling e-books that people can read on any Internet-connected device including Apple’s hot-selling iPad tablet computers, earliest by this summer.