San Francisco — Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube on Wednesday unleashed a major makeover, more streamlined YouTube homepage, aimed at moving out visual noise and capturing the attention of viewers, in an effort to lengthen the time users stay on the site.

  Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo on Wednesday notified members of its Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) that it will soon be shutting down its contextual-advertising network by the end of the April, ceding the market to already-dominant Google, as it retools to focus on premium display. The Yahoo Publisher Network Beta, a contextual advertising platform — […]

Mountain View, California — Everything in today’s most engaged environment occurs in real time, even ad management. To ease task Google has just rolled out its AdWords for Mobile applications allowing advertisers and agencies the option of managing their accounts on the go from the iPhone, Android and Palm Pre devices.

New York — Twitter has just unveiled a completely revamped homepage, intending to give first-time visitors a glimpse of what the micro-blogging and social-networking site offers and the real-time benefits it can provide, beyond being just a repository of status updates, including adding something called “Twitter 101.” Nevertheless, Twitter’s popularity has skyrocketed in the past […]

San Francisco — Forget Apple! Despite being barred from Apple’s iPhone and soon-to-be-released iPad, Adobe and Google on Tuesday confirmed rumors that future versions of its Chrome browser will be bundled with Adobe’s Flash Player right out of the gate, eliminating the need for users to separately install and update the popular but often troublesome […]

Los Angeles — Finland-based Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phones maker announced on Friday that it has agreed to acquire the privately-held, Chicago-based Novarra, makers of the Vision mobile browser and server platform, enabling it to introduce a new service by employing the company’s Internet services technology in smartphones. The acquisition turns Nokia into the […]

Sunnyvale, California — Last December, Internet search pioneer Yahoo promised that it would make tighter integration with Facebook Connect across its properties worldwide, now the Sunnyvale, Calif., company continues to expand that relationship with the latest implementation enabling users to update their Facebook status from within Yahoo Mail. Yahoo began to extend the capability from […]

Mountain View, California — Ever since shutting its Internet search engine in China, Google Inc., on Sunday updated a page that has been monitoring the status of many of its services, reported that a number of unspecified services, including its mobile phone services, are being partially-blocked in mainland China, but it was unknown whether the […]

Sunnyvale, California — Last week, Internet search pioneer Yahoo has unveiled two new search applications for the iPhone at the C.T.I.A. conference in Las Vegas, which allow users to speak or doodle their search terms rather than type them. One of the applications called “Sketch-a-Search” app, does what the name implies, letting your fingertip inscribe […]

Mountain View, California — Personalization makes search more convenient and fun too, and Bookmarks are not something a new concept for Google, but the search leader promises to deliver enriched information sharing between friends and groups of your top sites most surely is. Google last week unveiled a new experimental service called Bookmarks. The new […]