San Francisco — Search engine giant Google Inc.’s popular video sharing site YouTube has joined Google and Facebook in the latest bid to improve the way they spread across the web by launching its own URL shortener — Youtu.be. The move apparently comes as the world starts to cut down its URLs to use in […]

Redond, Washington — Software behemoth Microsoft Corp., lost its appeal of a lawsuit involving a Canadian company called i4i in May, after a jury ruled that the Redmond, Wash., software maker infringed one of i4i’s patents with a custom XML feature found in Word, is preparing to modify its popular Word software to avoid an […]

Los Angeles — In a relentless race for market share, Mozilla’s Firefox 3.5 has managed to overtake Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 as the most popular single version web browser, at least according to one statistical snapshot of which browser versions Web surfers use. Earlier, there was only few like Netscape and its Navigator. Then came […]

Sunnyvale, California — Internet search pioneer Yahoo Inc., in a cost-cutting move, is closing down its offices worldwide from Christmas through New Year’s Day, except for “essential functions,” its first ever, as the Internet company searching new avenues to cut costs during the recession, reports WSJ. This is the first time Yahoo has ordered most […]

San Francisco — Yelp has rejected Google’s acquisition offer, estimated at about $550 million. TechCrunch, which last week citing anonymous sources said a progressive discussion between Google Inc. to acquire Yelp, the popular review site Yelp was “very likely to close,” now says the deal is off– and that Yelp CEO and co-founder Jeremy Stoppelman […]

San Francisco — Privacy advocates are grousing about Facebook’s recent privacy changes effected since the second week of December has had scores of users of the world’s biggest online social network up in arms now calling on the US Federal Trade Commission to make Facebook undo the changes in an official complaint. The subject of […]

Redmond, Washington — Bing, the much-touted search engine from Microsoft, is feeling the heat of a trademark conflict, as a small Missouri company called Bing! Information Designs, having the word “Bing” in its name has sued Microsoft for branding its search engine with the same word, alleging trademark violation and unfair competition by the software […]

Paris — A French court last week imposed an astounding amount of fine €300,000 ($430,000), against Google Inc., owner of the most popular Internet-search engine, for copyright infringement and ordered the search giant to pull all the scanned books off its site, a Paris court ruled today. The Paris Civil Court stated that Google breached […]

Redmond, Washington — Even though Microsoft’s Windows Mobile business competes with iPhone maker Apple, the Redmond, Wash., software maker’s new Bing app is pushing its Bing search engine pretty hard into the mobile space. The application made its debute in the iPhone Apps Store yesterday and can be downloaded directly to the iPhone if users […]

Mountain View, California — According to various media reports suggesting that Google Inc., world’s most popular Internet search engine, is making a bid to acquire the popular San Francisco do-it-yourself review site Yelp Inc., the site that allows users to review restaurants, bars, shops and more, potentially providing the search giant an opportunity to reach […]