Sunnyvale, California — Attempting to spread out its original content offerings, Yahoo has entered into a partnership with former NBC Entertainment Co-Chairman Ben Silverman’s Electus production house to develop and produce multiple originally branded content for the Web portal and its advertising associates in a deal that will likely be announced sometime later this week, […]

Beijing, China — Search engine giant Google Inc., at the weekend said its communication with Chinese Writers Association (CWA) was “not good enough” after it published sections of their work in its online library Google Books without their consent, hence wish to apologize and is ready to work out a settlement to allay copyright concerns, […]

Mountain View, California — Back in September last year, Google brought out a new service called Fast Flip to its Labs section. Despite some of its blemishes, Google is giving its experimental news reading application — which offers a way for people to easily skim through news content online in a way that is supposed […]

Las Vegas — South Korean electronics giant Samsung is going head-to-head with Amazon and Sony in the burgeoning e-reader market took the wraps off two wireless e-readers at the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the “E6” with a six-inch (15.2-centimeter) screen and the “E101” with a 10-inch (25.4-centimeter) display. Samsung touted its […]

Las Vegas — Today, Yahoo has announced several new partnerships involved with its Connected TV, a wide release of the Widget Developer Kit, and other device manufacturers and content providers as the web company attempts to deliver Internet services to the coming generation of network-connected TVs, on such devices as home media boxes, Blu-ray players, […]

Mountain View, California — Squeaky wheels may get a little grease, following Mountain View, Calif., search giant Google’s acquisition offer to video bandwidth reducer On2 in August, has been with an extra $26.5 million for their trouble. The Mountain View search giant said it raised the offer for the online video compression company to around $132 […]

Redmond, Washington — While it is striving arduously at creating the next iteration of Internet Explorer, the Redmond software maker, Microsoft has jumped on to join a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Scalable Vector Graphics bandwagon, IE senior program manager Patrick Dengler has blogged. Essentially, the Redmond company wishes to be intimately involved in the […]

Mountain View, California — Google generates a lot of money from advertising, and now it is waging an all out war with Apple to be the most innovative in the mobile space, especially in the advertising arena. The search giant’s latest maneuver in its mobile push: The company recently sent AdWords advertisers a message this […]

Los Angeles— High-tech video-conferencing is not just for only large-scale enterprise users anymore. Skype Technologies SA, the Web-based telephone company sold last year by eBay Inc., has announced support for 720p high-resolution video phone calls on TVs and computers in association from Panasonic of Japan and South Korea’s LG will feature Skype voice and video […]

San Francisco — Apple, Inc. moved on Google’s turf on Tuesday with its acquisition of Quattro Wireless, a mobile-ad competitor to AdMob, which Google just acquired. The deal is the latest sign that the mobile phone is the next battlefield for technology companies, especially for Apple and Google, which are increasingly in competition. Quattro provides […]