San Francisco — Real-time search engine OneRiot, which recently rolled out search ads, just announced that its new advertising network dubbed as “RiotWise,” the innovative search engine’s solution to help developers monetize their Web applications, is now open to all developers. OneRiot has just released RiotWise, the real-time search engine’s solution for developers to monetize […]

San Francisco — Despite competition from Microsoft’s Bing, which may be putting its best to knock Google Search down a peg or two, but so far it has not attained much success. According to Nielsen’s December U.S. Search Rankings, released on Wednesday, Web users queried search engines more than 9.9 billion times in December. And, […]

Sunnyvale, California — To help things run smoothly for new advertisers, next week Yahoo is ready to release two Sponsored Search product with two new features, which the company says will provide advertisers with more transparency into and control over their accounts. This time the company is releasing Network Distribution, and Import Campaigns. The new […]

Redmond, Washington — Building on a lengthy partnership, Microsoft Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co., two of the world’s biggest tech vendors, announced a new partnership on Wednesday said they will collectively spend $250 million to develop and more tightly integrate their software and hardware offerings for companies looking to move their applications and data online, popularly […]

Mountain View, California — In an attempt to safeguard Chinese human-rights activists and other Gmail users around the world from hackers looking into their mail accounts, Google on Wednesday announced that it has shifted its Gmail to a more secure protocol by default for all times, not just during sign-on, and make the process an […]

San Francisco — Have you missed that important file on your office computer again? Forgot an Excel spreadsheet you prepared for a promo presentation on your home laptop? You can now rejoice as Google is now floating a small virtual hard drive in the cloud that will let you upload any type of file along […]

Redmond, Washington — Today Microsoft has unveiled some new health search features to its health search capabilities running into its Bing search engines many health-related inquiries, according to a blog post on the Bing Community site. Users can instantly discover detailed and comprehensive explanation about illnesses, treatments, medical facilities, etc. when entering health-related queries. “We […]

Beijing, China — In a head-to-head confrontation with the Chinese government, internet search powerhouse Google Inc. late Tuesday said it might exit China after an investigation revealed that the company had adversely been hit with major cyber attacks on email accounts of human rights activists using Google’s Gmail service, which it believes originated from the […]

San Francisco — Beginning soon around mid-March, Yahoo Shopping will no more be a solo entity. Yahoo announced today that it is incorporating Yahoo Shopping with comparison shopping search engine PriceGrabber, to handle some of the technical details, and it will be able to make one more cutback thanks to the adjustment. A post on […]

New York — Since its recently announced voluntary layoff program that fell short of its goal late last year, US Internet company Aol Inc., on Monday said that it will begin the process of giving out pink slips to around 1,200 to 1,400 employees and said it would close some European offices, to meet a […]