San Francisco — Google is once again confronting a new round of scrutiny from antitrust regulators, announcing late yesterday that the European Commission has launched an investigation for possible anti-competitive behavior by the Mountain View search giant, following complaints from three European search sites filed against it, Google revealed in a blog post Tuesday.

Sunnyvale, California — In an attempt to lure back Web surfers who are spending more time on social networking sites, Internet portal Yahoo Inc. has inked a deal with Twitter to integrate Twitter’s real-time content updates across both properties, as the company seeks to enhance the appeal of its online properties with popular social networking features. […]

San Francisco — Xerox Corporation last week filed a patent infringement lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Delaware, accusing Google, Yahoo, owners of the two biggest U.S. search engines, and Google subsidiary YouTube of violating two Xerox patents associated with automatically-generated search queries and data integration. One patent was granted in 2001 and another in […]

Redmond, Washington — It appears like the Redmond Vole has achieved a significant victory in its ongoing campaign to exert its claims over some of the key intellectual property in the Linux open source operating system. Late on Monday, Microsoft announced that it has entered into a patent cross-licensing agreement with Amazon.com Inc. that gives […]

Mountain View, California — Google just yesterday released a revamped version of its ad-serving platform DoubleClick for Publishers, with a revived interface, more statistics, improved ad-delivery algorithms and a new API for developers, which the company claims should demonstrate its commitment to ad management products and to display advertising in general, the company said Monday.

New York — The Internet is growing exponentially and what is called the virtual world is becoming dynamic for addressing everyday life and it is time for Ghanaian businesses to get online and do business. Google has announced the launch of Google Maps in Ghana and 29 other African countries where it was not previously […]

San Francisco — Global search leader Google, has finally finalized its acquisition of video compression technology vendor On2 Technologies in a $120m deal which will expand the web giant’s online video capabilities.

Redmond, Washington — It took eight months of exhaustive consideration since the search alliance that Microsoft and Yahoo settled on after years of flirting is about to get started. The U.S. Department of Justice and European Union last week bestowed their blessings on Microsoft’s search alliance with Yahoo, something they have been waiting for since […]

San Francisco — Enjoy it or ency it, Google Buzz has dominated tech headlines since its launch last week. A Florida woman on Wednesday filed a class-action lawsuit against Google’s latest real-time social network tool, “Google Buzz,” accusing that the new Buzz violates the privacy rights of Gmail.

Mountain View, California — After delivering traffic since its launch in December, Google is bestowing new life to “Living Stories,” the news research project that it began experimenting with the New York Times and the Washington Post will now be publicly available to provide a deeper user engagement.