Redmond, Washington — Prior to the beginning of International Broadcasting Conference (IBC) in Amsterdam, which is scheduled to commence on September 11, Microsoft on Tuesday plans to give broadcasters a peek at the two news features that it is embedding into the next version of Silverlight, its Internet Explorer browser-plug-in alternative to Adobe Flash technology […]

Sunnyvale, California — Internet pioneer, Yahoo Inc., on Tuesday unveiled three new products as the company continues to concentrate more on developing specific applications for the iPhone and other select smartphones like the BlackBerry for Yahoo Finance and Fantasy Football, in addition to a new iPhone Flickr application. The most widely advertised application to be […]

Dubai — With the Internet crowds increasing up in Arabian Peninsula, search engine behemoth Google, running after its arch rival Yahoo to capture the market share, yesterday in Dubai and Cairo, unveiled Ejabat (Answers), aimed at the Arabic language users on the web, developed by its Arabic Labs team. The service is similar to Yahoo […]

Brussels — In a move to appease European publishers’ concerns over book digitization, Internet search giant Google Inc. on Monday said it will pull out all European books that are still listed as commercially available from a $125 million U.S. settlement with publishers to scan orphaned and out-of-print books in the U.S. and sell them […]

New York — AOL Inc., which is being separated from Time Warner, said it has appointed “Brad Garlinghouse,” a former Yahoo executive who was accredited with exposing the deep problems at the Internet company, as President of Internet and Mobile Communications, spearheading AOL’s global efforts to expand the reach of its e-mail and instant messaging, […]

Beijing, China — Google is once again regaining its position in China after a row in which authorities accused the US Internet giant of illegally disseminating pornographic content, as the Chinese authorities now approved of Google’s efforts to filter porn from search results on its China portal following state-led criticism of the links, the former […]

New York — As it sets itself up to disunite from Time Warner, AOL today said that it has assigned Publciis Groupe’s “Leo Burnett” to help the company communicate its upcoming reinvention to people around the world. The company moved quickly, giving five large and small agencies two weeks to prepare a presentation, AOL COO […]

Rome, Italy — Google late last week received a piece of bad news as Italy’s Antitrust regulators have expanded their investigation of Google News to include the company’s search engine in that country, according to reports. According to reports, the investigation began last week by Italy’s Antitrust Authority that now wishes to take a closer […]

San Francisco — With the growing advertising revenue giving YouTube a new life to profitability, the massively popular Google Inc.’s video streaming service is not yet there, hence, YouTube is reportedly negotiating a deal with several Hollywood studios to rent new release movies online, a move that would push the free video-sharing site charging for […]

Shanghai, China — Kai-Fu Lee, the president of Google’s Greater China operations, a former Microsoft executive and the subject of a resentful employee custody battle between Google and Microsoft, appointed to commence Google’s business in the most populous country in the world, is stepping down in mid-September from the company after working for years to […]