Sunnyvale, California — Struggling internet pioneer Yahoo continues to give tough time to its arch rivals with some pretty innovative features that its main competitor does not have. Just last week Yahoo introduced a novel feature for its image search, which it calls as travel image refiner, that lets users refine searches based on specific […]

San Francisco — Search advertising giant Google Inc. last week unveiled a new AdWords feature called "Location Extensions," which blends more with local businesses enabling them to add their business address to their search ads. According to Google, the location feature empowers local businesses to "extend" your AdWords campaigns by connecting your business address to […]

San Francisco — Google on Wednesday slightly modified its popular video-sharing website YouTube by introducing a feature that lets video owners share stats from its analytics tool called ”YouTube Insights”. The shared info is able to be viewed by anyone watching the user’s video, which includes stats on total views, number of ratings and other […]

New York — Making easy money online is the choice of many, especially with Google Adsense. Google, the Internet search and advertising giant early this week announced that it has expanded the availability of reports in local currency for AdSense publishers in Denmark and Norway. Google’s advertising channel made website owners thrive their website’s earning […]

San Francisco — Search engine behemoth Google Inc. earlier this year introduced Latitude as a location-based service (LBS) competing with the likes of Brightkite and Loopt. But since yesterday, Google has finally added Latitude to Apple’s iPhone, but it is now available on the web instead of app store. Users can now commence geostalking on […]

New York — Struggling search pioneer Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday made a sales partnership with AT&T Interactive that enables the telecommunications powerhouse to sell Yahoo display inventory to U.S. businesses, the companies said. The new alliance means that approximately 5,000 strong sales force from AT&T Interactive’s local sales affiliate with access to Yahoo’s APT platform […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo Inc on Wednesday confirmed that it has acquired Xoopit, a San Francisco start-up that provides technology to organize photos, videos, and other files that pile up in web-based Yahoo’s e-mail system. With the acquisition of San Francisco-based Xoopit, the social e-mail startup, Yahoo plans to add new photo sharing features to […]

San Francisco — Ever sign up for a genuine mailing list, but then regret it later and marked it as spam anyway because you are no more interested in it? Now users of Gmail service can rid themselves from unsolicited and unwanted marketing emails with ease. Search giant Google has added an “auto-unsubscribe” feature to […]

New York — Facebook on Tuesday announced in a post on its developer blog that “Facebook Connect,” its universal-login service adopted by more than 15,000 third-party sites–is now available in 64 international languages and locales. Almost 70 percent of Facebook’s 250 million global monthly active users are outside of the US, and most of them […]

San Francisco — Web developers should now rejoice as Adobe Systems Inc has taken a step forward in announcing two of Adobe’s latest open-source initiatives on Tuesday: both the technologies are related to the Flash platform — Open Source Media Framework (OSMF), and another one is, Text Layout Framework (TLF), designed to help media companies […]