San Francisco — If a French court has its way, online auction giant eBay Inc. will soon have to pay dearly around $2.6 million for marketing a French Perfume. The fine stems from a ban on the sale (or purchase) of LVMH goods, by the Commercial Court in Paris for failing to meet the terms […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yet another management shuffle at Yahoo. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company has given “David Ko,” formerly senior vice president for Yahoo Mobile, has been awarded to the Internet giant’s vast media properties in the U.S. to his portfolio, is now senior vice president of audience division, in a sign that the search provider […]

Beijing, China — The ever growing high-tech industry have agreed that the mobile market is key in China. Baidu, which is trying to fend off a challenge from Google, which is playing greater role in introducing its web experience into phones in the Chinese mobile search market, is rolling out a new mobile service application […]

Australia — Responding to criticism over the lack of the Windows 7 Family Pack during last month’s introduction of the new OS, Microsoft Australia has finally yielded to pressure from customers and retailers and unleashed a local version of the bundle — which includes three licenses for Windows 7 Home Premium — for $249. Just […]

New York — For those of you courageous, there are few things more terrifying than the idea of going anywhere near a shopping establishment on Black Friday. Nevertheless, if you have been to Times Square in New York City over the past couple weeks, you might have observed that Google Search by voice is powering […]

Paris, France — Google Inc.’s recently revised settlement might have satisfied some objections by authors and publishers, but the controversy may be far from over. Last week European Union ministers have gathered to counter plans by web giant Google to build a joint project on the digitization of books, French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand said. […]

San Francisco — Google is currently testing a new appearance for its iconic search page, featuring cleaner, bolder graphics and a default side bar with bigger search buttons, brighter colors — bold white typeface on bright blue — with a slightly different logo, one without the shadows. The new aspect is being discovered by a […]

Mountain View, California — Adding attachments at times to Gmail can be quite annoying when the Internet connection is slow or intermittent. Google just this week began promoting its offline strategy with the announcement of the ability to include attachments in composed emails when offline. “Starting today, attachments work just the way you would expect […]

Germany — Search engine behemoth Google once again stomped in to strict privacy fracas in Germany. Data protection officials in Germany are warning website owners that the use of Google Analytics, the free commodity that enables website owners to derive aggregated statistics about their visitors, is once again facing a potential ban in Germany after […]

New Delhi, India — Much has been written about the young generation joining Facebook. And undoubtedly, today it is the fastest growing social networking site online. But a unique social networking website for older Indians is becoming popular among baby boomers. Verdurez.com caters to senior internet savvy people to combat loneliness and make new friends […]