Redmond, Washington — Barely a day after beautifying Bing with various enhancements, including the beta version of an improved mapping service, Microsoft had to apologize for a widespread outage that kept the search engine offline for about 30 minutes late last week, a sign that Microsoft’s effort to challenge Google’s search supremacy remains vital. During […]

San Francisco — Google seems to be hurrying to get its holiday shopping done, having just acquired its fourth company in less than a month. In order to boost its recently invited Wave product, Google on Friday said it is buying the San Francisco based online collaboration startup “AppJet,” which makes the EtherPad real-time workgroup […]

Mountain View, California — Search engine giant Google recently unfolded two new feature, an automated search feature dubbed as: Translated Search aimed at passing over the language barrier across web search results, that allows the users to quickly find search results written in languages other than English. Also the Mountain View, Calif., company has quietly […]

New York — Following in the footsteps of Yahoo’s recent integration with Facebook to its content network, and today search giant announced that it will rolled out a twitter integration feature on its Friend Connect platform which will allow any one with a Twitter or Google account to log-in into a website if it supports […]

San Francisco — Global search engine leader Google has recently been playing around with various homepage designs has formally introduced a brand new version of the search engine’s redesigned iconic homepage that clears out all the on screen clutter that has moved in over the past few years and features a sleek fade-in effect that […]

San Francisco — The Redmond, Wash., software giant Microsoft, taking aim at one of Google’s most popular services, Google Maps, continues to fine-tune its fledgling Bing search engine — on Wednesday enhanced its own online mapping service with several new capabilities, including a street-level view that takes users inside public buildings, like the Metropolitan Museum […]

Sunnyvale, California — Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. on Wednesday said that it is weaving tighter integration with Facebook that will further open its Internet properties to users of its email, photo-sharing and other online products link their content and activities directly into Facebook, the world’s largest social networking service. The move tightens an alliance recently […]

Redmond, Washington — After quietly releasing the Office 2010 public beta, software maker Microsoft is reportedly prepping the next major release of its productivity applications suite — Office 2010 — right on time, in June of its namesake year. The Microsoft Office 2010, and its related products, is planned to be released in June, and […]

Mountain View, California — Google, facing the wrath from media tycoon Rupert Murdoch and some other newspaper owners over the way it offers free access to newspaper articles, said it will allow publishers to set a new parameter on the number of articles people can read for free through its search engine, the company has […]

Sunnyvale, California — As part of Sunnyvale-based Yahoo’s strategy to recast the Right Media, the ad exchange that Yahoo acquired in 2007 for a reported $680 million in cash and stock, but on Tuesday the company announced that it will shut down the Direct Media Exchange (DMX) advertising platform, since its founder Michael Walrath recently […]