Los Angeles — A U.S. District Court in San Jose, California, on Thursday awarded Facebook $711 million in civil damages against Sanford Wallace, the infamous self proclaimed “spam king” who is also famed by the disrespectful nickname “Spamford.” The court found Wallace guilty of violating the CAN-SPAM act, and he could face time in prison […]

Mountain View, California — Another day, another enhancements to Google Maps that increases time spent on the site. In a move that promises to heighten competitive pressure, Google, back in July, began fetching real estate listings directly on Google Maps. Google on Thursday said that it had enhanced Google Maps to make it easier to […]

Los Angeles — Facebook head of communications Elliot Schrage posted a company blog entry on Thursday requesting users to examine the proposed revision to its privacy policy, and asked for feedback from the social network’s more than 300 million users until November 5, 2009, these changes that were made, in part, are to appease Canadian […]

Mountain View, California — The latest thing to emerge from Google’s barrage of launches this week. Google has now officially debuted a fresh form of advertising called “AdWords Comparison Ads,” a special kind of ad that delivers an instant mortgage quote service that connects lenders to buyers in real time, and provides useful tools for […]

San Jose, California — Last month, desktop-publishing and graphic software maker Adobe Systems Inc. agreed to acquire web analytics specialist Omniture, for approximately $US1.8 billion in cash. Today the company declared the successful completion of the tender offer for all outstanding shares of common stock of Omniture, Inc. at a price of $21.50 per share, […]

San Francisco — On the heels of one fake Facebook pishing scam, a new computer virus gangs are bombarding Facebook members with targeted fake emails, using the popular social-networking websites brand to trick unsuspecting users into downloading potentially vicious malware hoping to get control of members’ Facebook and other accounts — a rising type of […]

Los Angeles — Google Inc. on Wednesday stepped onto the Internet music stage, unveiling a new music search feature making an alliance with those include Lala, Pandora, imeem, MySpace Music and Rhapsody, a subscription service from Real Networks, to give music fans an easier way to find, sample and buy songs on the Internet, expanding […]

Mountain View, California — Google’s Labs team has been busy applying together some great new search technology lately. Back in April the Labs team initially introduced it for select images only alongside the visual-news timeline, and now the Similar Images feature has graduated from Labs and become a permanent part of Google Image Search. Similar […]

San Francisco — While claiming over a billion video views per day, Google Inc.’s YouTube video-sharing site certainly gets a lot of traffic. And now the search giant has launched its Promoted Video advertising service that lets Australian YouTube users promote their videos for a fee, essentially the equivalent of Google AdWords for YouTube videos. […]

Mountain View, California — Search engine giant Google Inc. on Tuesday made it more alluring for people to try its nascent Google Voice service that now allows users to retain their existing phone numbers, removing a barrier that potentially expands the appeal of the emerging, and controversial, service but with limited features. This means that […]