San Francisco — Yahoo’s social-bookmarking service Delicious unveiled a suite of revamped homepage features that are intended to collect and rate recently bookmarked links every minute, including a linkup with the white-hot micro-blogging community Twitter to give it a more real-time flavor. With today’s upgrade, Yahoo is porting that real-time vision to Delicious. This feature […]

Sunnyvale, California — Just a week ago Yahoo Inc. signed a search deal with Microsoft, while in another development earlier today, the company announced some big changes to its social-bookmarking site Delicious. Now, Yahoo-owned photo sharing site Flickr has a redesigned search results page. Yahoo claims the new design makes it easier to browse through […]

San Francisco — In a dramatic move that comes as little surprise, on Monday, Google Inc. Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt has stepped down from Apple Inc.’s board of directors, due to escalating conflicts of interest between the two companies and concern that sharing directors may impede competition. “Eric has been an excellent Board member […]

London — Microsoft’s MSN Video service has finally gone live in the UK after weeks of gossips with hundreds of hours of programs available to watch for free. Few of the shows included in MSN Video are Peep Show, Shameless, Hustle and The League of Gentlemen. Microsoft has said that the free video-streaming service is […]

Los Angeles — YouTube, Google Inc.’s most popular video sharing site has made a number of announcement recently, and back in June, it invited major publishers to join as partners, and also introduced another novel resource for citizen reporters called the YouTube Reporters’ Center. Today, it has unveiled a new feature called “News Near You” […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo Inc, which recently announced a landmark Web search deal with Microsoft Corp., is riveting its attention on developing into its display ad, content and mobile services technology, its chief executive Carol Bartz told the New York Times in an interview. Bartz said that they took the decision because Yahoo simply does […]

San Francisco — Google and Microsoft seem to be facing off bitter rivalry against each other recently; as Microsoft recently rolled out “Bing,” its much hyped search engine to compete against the search giant, while Google launched “Chrome,” their new operating system, as an assault to the age old Microsoft’s Windows. But now, Google is […]

New York — Search and advertising Goliath Google is now certainly throwing behind the period during where beta tags remained visible for years on end. Recently, Google removed the “beta” tags from a bunch of apps, including Gmail and many other and the new AdWords interface is the latest to say goodbye to beta, promising […]

  New York — Google Inc., world’s most popular search engine, unfazed by the recent tech industry developments, just rolled out the new Google Checkout store gadget, currently managed by Google Labs, allows any Google Docs user to create an online store and sell items using a Google spreadsheet. The new Google Checkout store gadget […]

San Francisco — It seems that another race has just begun–Image search is the latest sphere of intense competition between Google, Yahoo, and now Bing. Today, Google Images released some search options to make it easier to filter a search by color, type (face, photo, clip art, line drawing), and file size. The new features […]