Mountain View, California — Having captured the Web’s text-based ad market, Google now wishes for a bigger piece of the display advertising market currently dominated by Yahoo, the search Goliath on Thursday took the wraps off a revamped DoubleClick Ad Exchange, a hub to connect publishers and advertisers looking for a bargain through its DoubleClick […]

New York — Come what may, Google is strongly determined on digitizing the world’s books, but that is not it, the search giant is also thoughtful that sometimes you just want to turn the pages, and any one of the more than 2 million books old enough to fall out of copyright into the public […]

San Francisco — Barely two months after being designated as AOL’s new COO, Kimberley Partoll, as well as SVP of Search & Local head John Kannapel are quitting the company amid reorganization, as CEO Tim Armstrong is searching for ways to cut down the company’s costs, according to multiple media reports. Partoll’s exiting is particularly […]

Mountain View, California — Google Inc., owner of the most popular search engine, announced on its blog Wednesday that it plans to intensify its gigantic efforts to scan tens of millions of books and periodicals with the acquisition of “ReCAPTCHA,” a company that provides those familiar crooked text boxes at the bottom of many Web […]

San Francisco — Status updates and pokes not cutting it anymore? Need another reason to spend more time on Facebook? If so, then get ready to don your headsets, because soon you will be engaged in voice conversations with your Facebook friends, talk trash with gaming opponents, or even chat with customer service reps on […]

New York — Adobe Systems Inc., developer of globally admired PhotoShop and Acrobat products went shopping on Tuesday said that it has reached a deal to acquire rapidly growing Web analytics firm Omniture Inc. for $1.8 billion, or $21.50 per share in cash, the companies said Tuesday. The popular software developer, which announced the deal […]

San Francisco — AOL’s instant messaging service (AIM) striving to keep pace with the growing trends does not want to be defeated by the web’s latest and most popular social networking and publishing tools, so it has decided to join them — on Tuesday announced a major update by integrating the AIM Lifestream application that […]

Sunnyvale, California — Just recently Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz emphasized that “Alibaba is a nice investment for the future,” the internet pioneer in Silicon Valley has sold its entire stake in the Chinese-based business-to-business trading site Alibaba.com for about $150 million, the company said on Monday. Reuters first reported on the story. Yahoo Inc. unloaded […]

Redmond, Washington — Barely four months after Microsoft Corp. introduced Bing search engine, seeking to gain market share from Google Inc., unveiled a twist over the Internet search experience on Monday by releasing a beta version of Visual Search, which allows Web surfers to search using image galleries instead of text links at the TechCrunch50 […]

Mountain View, California — Search engine giant Google on Monday unveiled a Labs project called “Google Fast Flip” that would allow news-hounds read Web pages of magazines and newspapers like they were flipping through an old-fashioned paper copy, featuring articles and stories from major media outlets, including the BBC, The New York Times and The […]