San Francisco — Twitter, the popular micro-blogging platform, which has attracted tens of millions of users but has yet to make money, took another step late last week by amending its terms of service to potentially open up the free service to allow advertisers to reach its 45 million regular visitors. “In the Terms, we […]

Washington — The US Department of Justice is looking into the advertising and search alliance between Microsoft and Yahoo, has asked for more documents about their proposed partnership in search results and related advertising, showing that antitrust officials are giving full scrutiny to the deal, the two companies revealed last week. While the two companies, […]

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft’s admiration of open-source has prompted it to extend an olive branch to the cause in an attempt to deepen its penetration and advance it to the next level, as the company founded the CodePlex open source foundation. The Redmond, Washington, software titan is supporting the CodePlex Foundation with $1 million to […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo! Mail users now have a reason to be joyous as the Sunnyvale, California, company on Thursday announced a partnership with social-storage service Dropio, which allows Yahoo Mail users to attach large files up to 100MB in size to any message they send using drop.io’s Attach Large Files application. When Yahoo Mail […]

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft is simplifying it for companies effectively using its advertising platform to check how Bing is displaying their advertisements. So, if you have set up your ad campaign for Bing in adCenter and now you wish to know whether or not the ads are showing. Now, the adCenter team has introduced a […]

Mountain View, California — Are you fed up of shuffling away from Gmail to navigate and listen to your Google Voice messages? Well, Google on Thursday lifted that tedious task by adding a new feature in Gmail labs that allows you to play Google Voice voicemails right from Gmail. “Previously, clicking on ‘Play Message‘ opened […]

London — Software major Microsoft Corp., on Wednesday revealed that it has made an alliance with Tesce, one of the world’s UK-based leading retail giants, to introduce a new service that will provide customers with DVD-quality movies delivered to them over the web using Microsoft’s Silverlight technology. The new service is based on Microsoft’s Silverlight […]

Mountain View, California — Search engine giant Google is planning to roll out a micro-payments platform to support the newspaper industry that would enable them to charge a nominal amount for to buy digital content through its Checkout online payment system, an idea that could help publishers struggling with the impact of the Internet, according […]

Mountain View, California — If you see something a bit different on Google.com, do not panic or adjust your screen. Something is different because Google today announced it has increased the size of the search box that appears on its home and results pages, giving users more space to enter their queries. “Although it is […]

San Francisco — Google Inc. on Wednesday attempted to inform financial analysts that regardless of all the care it dedicates to projects like Google Apps, staying on top of search and search advertising is what really matters. The search titan detailed a series of new search ad formats by incorporating its paid search ads with […]