Mountain View, California — In a bid to gain a foothold in an ultra-competitive mobile advertising market, Google on Monday took aim at the mobile display ad market when it announced that it has agreed to acquire mobile-ad technology provider AdMob for $750 million in stock deal. Although, Google has made little progress in offering […]

San Francisco — Despite all the benefits reaped by other companies, this will surely come as a surprise to some. Industry tracker comScore, Inc., last week released a study showing that, in terms of time spent on sites, the Redmond-based Microsoft sites ranked as the most engaging global property in September, followed by Google, Yahoo, […]

Redmond, Washington — Striving to strengthen its medical pedigree, software behemoth Microsoft Corp. is ready to debut an online video series, “Health Tech Today,” describing the developments in the health care technology field, beginning tomorrow Nov. 10. The forthcoming show will concentrate on how health and information technology run across. Microsoft’s cloud-based storage facility for […]

Los Angeles — Global search leader has a new mobile partner — Leading electronics retailer Best Buy is cozying up to Google in a new partnership that will have the company offering to help customers install Google Mobile App on all new smartphones they sell. Under the new initiative, Google considers the partnership plan with […]

San Francisco — Just in time with the availability of the Motorola Droid and the HTC Eris at Verizon Wireless stores today, Adobe Systems on Friday launched a new Photoshop app for Android users that enables them to edit photos from their phone, as well as access their online photo collection on Photoshop.com and Slacker […]

Mountain View, California — Traveling by subway may be an expensive headache especially during weekends, but thanks to Google Maps that continue to keeps getting better. Last year Google made an alliance with the MTA with the launch of transit directions inside of Google Maps. And today, the Google Maps team has announced the launch […]

Sunnyvale, California — It is quite apparent that music searches comprise a large number of searches on the web today. To overcome this cumbersome tasks, Google Inc., last week unveiled the Music Onebox — a special new music search product that allows users stream songs in their entirety for free. But Yahoo has long been […]

Mountain View, California — Global search leader Google has made its latest move just in the nick of time for the holiday shopping season. Google on Thursday rolled out a new search engine service dubbed as “Google Commerce Search” specifically designed for large e-commerce sites, which online retailers may find incredibly useful for improving the […]

San Francisco — Search engine titan Google Inc. yesterday announced that it is currently experimenting with a better and sleeker interface of its AdSense account management. The new interface offers solutions to the top three suggestions provided by AdSense account holders that will make the task of managing AdSense accounts easier and less discouraging. The […]

Redmond, Washington — Mass downsizing at Microsoft continues, as the Redmond, Wash.-based software behemoth on Wednesday said that it is notifying approximately 800 workers that their jobs are being eliminated in addition to 5,000 layoffs it announced earlier this year. “Earlier this year, Microsoft said we that in order to reduce costs, increase efficiency and […]