Mountain View, California — Lagging behind its arch rival in the mail competition, search engine giant Google has now found another trick to woo users from Microsoft and Yahoo. According to announcement made on the Gmail Blog, Google now permits millions of its Gmail users to migrate their e-mail and contacts information from Microsoft, Yahoo, […]

Mountain View, California — Google has developed a novel process to predict popular online search topics in what it hopes to be a blessing for businesses eager to target ads that accompany Internet search results. Google announced a new forecasting feature for its Insights for Search, the company’s search data analysis tool, that would enable […]

New York — AOL is out in a legal scuffle with its moniker. This week, the company has filed a lawsuit against “Advertise.com”, for trademark infringement and employing unfair competition practices, with the Internet giant claiming that the name and the design are quite similar to its own Advertising.com and Ad.com, all the while offering […]

San Francisco — According to a post on Google’s Adsense blog vaguely announces that the company is rolling out a number of enhancements next week to AdSense’s contextually targeting capabilities to more precisely match relevant ads to AdSense publishers’ pages. With largely hazy details were given about these enhancements, but Google says AdSense publishers will […]

New York — A group of five people have filed a civil lawsuit against Facebook Monday, alleging that the social-networking site has violated a host of California consumer privacy laws pertaining to copyright, truth in advertising and safeguarding users’ personal information. The lawsuit, which was filed Monday in California’s Orange County Superior Court on behalf […]

Mountain View, California — Google has just rolled out the first preview version of its Chrome browser to reach the version 4.x milestone, along with the addition of bookmark syncing tool to the list of features available through Chrome’s developers’ channel. With the recent development, this new feature should herald some big progress to the […]

San Francisco — With a large number of businesses and organizations are now relying on Google, the search behemoth in an attempt to further gain their loyalty, has added its online applications suite — the doc, calendar and site sharing feature with its Groups service, claiming to differentiate its online applications from that of Microsoft […]

New York — Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has agreed to acquire Greenfield Online Inc., owner of Ciao GmbH, Europe’s leading price comparison, shopping and consumer reviews sites, for $486 million, in an attempt that will further boost its Internet search and e-commerce business in Europe. According to the terms of the agreement, Microsoft […]

San Francisco — Microsoft’s aggressive thrust for their new search engine Bing has finally started to pay off. According to recent Hitwise statistics that shows how well Bing Shopping is faring. Bing’s Shopping has managed to achieve a phenomenal growth since the site launched at the beginning of June 6 to the week ending August […]

Redmond, Washington — Software behemoth Microsoft Corp., last week unwrapped several of the secrets, intensifying its chase with rival Apple’s iPod as it announced the lates version of its Zune HD digital music player, slated to go on sale in the United States on September 15. Microsoft hopes the new Zune HD, which comes in […]