Redmond, Washington — Microsoft Corp., following its 10-year hot on the heels search and advertising pact with Yahoo, the Redmond, Washington, software maker wasted no time before making fresh overtures into becoming a major player in online advertising, serving an estimated 30 percent of the search-based ad market. And, just yesterday, the software giant announced […]

New York — Sony Corp. is the latest to enter the race to offer the largest e-bookstore inventory as Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble already vying for top spot. Sony on Wednesday said that owners of its Reader e-book device can now access more than one million public domain books from the Google Books library, […]

San Francisco — Jotting down those lengthy links on the mobile phone is pretty tiring. Well, that has now changed for Gmail users using iPhone or Android-powered devices as Google comes to the rescue as the search giant continues to improve its mobile Gmail program. On Tuesday, Google Mobile announced the Smart Links feature, a […]

Redmond, Washington / Sunnyvale, California — After almost year and half of jibes and jabs, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. on Wednesday announced that they have entered into a long awaited 10-year online search and advertising partnership in an effort to challenge Google, the world’s biggest internet search engine. “Both the Internet titans are expecting […]

San Francisco — Yahoo has recently been pretty busy lately with revamping and offering customizable homepage in an attempt to compete with its rivals. On Tuesday, Yahoo announced that PC to mobile sync of the new Yahoo homepage is available on over 400 devices in 17 countries, although Apple iPhone users will be the only […]

Mountain View, California — Google Inc., has always attempted to deliver online ads differently depending on what you search for, has now expanded its horizon with newly announced alliance with dynamic TV ad platform Visible World, an addressable TV ad technology company. The latest partnership would enable Google TV advertisers the ability to dynamically create […]

San Francisco — As Google Voice barely begins to capture the world of personal phone calls, Apple Inc., the iPhone technocrat has reportedly banned Google Voice as an iPhone application, in a latest sign of growing rivalry between the powerful Silicon Valley allies, which have drawn recent regulatory attention for their close ties. According to […]

For enthusiasts Google Maps users, which is great for sightseeing, but with the Google camera car is confined to thoroughfares, it becomes difficult to get up close to landmarks on the service. But Google has just blended the Street View service with a cool new feature — Smart Navigation and the option to browse user-contributed […]

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft is not particularly famous for maintaining punctuality on their launch deadlines, but it seems Redmond has learned from their past. But yesterday, Microsoft officially entered the "Race to Market Challenge" and opened its Windows Marketplace for Mobile application store to software developers as the software behemoth moves to catch up to […]

New York — Time Warner Inc. on Monday said that it has repurchased Google Inc.’s 5% stake in AOL for $283 million, in a transaction that values AOL at less than $5.66 billion, the Internet company said in a U.S. regulatory filing. Time Warner, which announced plans in May to spin-off AOL by the end […]