Sunnyvale, California — With mobile search growing astronomically, it is no surprise that big search engines vying to monetize the traffic. Yahoo today announced that it has “fine-tuned” their sponsored search ads so they can now be served on iPhones, iPod Touch and Android mobile phones. “With this tweak, standard Sponsored Search ads (40-character header, […]

Mountain View, California — Google on Wednesday announced that it is now empowering Webmasters with a free tool that allows website users to automatically translate online pages into any of 51 languages. Have you ever wished to have a blog in German but could proceed because you do not know the language? Well, now you […]

Sunnyvale, California — Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc., on Tuesday announced that it is integrating its Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP) with the recently renewed Yahoo! Homepage, which allows advertisers and publishers develop apps for the homepage is part of the company’s ambitious Yahoo Open Strategy (YOS). The Yahoo Developer Network blog released a post calling for […]

New York — The Googlization of AOL’s top brasses continues. AOL, the struggling Internet unit of Time Warner, on Tuesday announced the appointment of another Googler veteran… The latest is former YouTube monetization head “Shashi Seth,” who will now serve as SVP for Global Ad Products at AOL. In his new position, Seth will be […]

San Francisco — Google’s YouTube retained its position as the top U.S. digital video property, surpassing more than 10 billion videos viewed in August, indicating 40 percent of the more than 25 billion videos viewed during the month, according to internet traffic tracking firm comScore, Inc. The Reston, Va.-based digital industry measuring firm also reported […]

Sunnyvale, California — Trailing in the footsteps of Microsoft and Apple, Yahoo today has launched its big marketing campaign, called “Y!ou” Monday, a one-minute advertising campaign through its new US $100 million dollar “Anthem” ad that is intended to highlight all the things Yahoo can do for you. Yahoo is paying more than $100 million […]

San Francisco — So far, only few search engines outsmart Google when it comes to finding accurate relevant results. Google might not be fascinated in acquiring Twitter but it has become aggressive in competing with it in the real-time search capabilities. If you live in the U.S. or Japan, you might be happy to check […]

Mountain View, California — As the two tech rivals — Google and Microsoft are contending to prove their supremacy in technology, search engine leader Google rolled out some nifty updates to Google Docs today, which is associated with Google Apps’ productivity suite, by adding a few student-friendly features. The document collaboration tool now supports equation […]

Mountain View, California — Google’s app for Windows Mobile phones got some benefaction today from the search giant in the form of three new features. The company has just announced that its Mobile App for the Windows Mobile platform has been updated with a series of new features. According to the company, the new Google […]

London — Search engine titan Google makes every attempt to keep you glued to its website and never leave Google again! The company on Friday announced that it is rolling out “Place Pages for Google Maps,” which are essentially Google-hosted Web elements that provides detailed information such as: businesses, points of interest, transit stations, landmarks, […]