San Francisco — Hoping to ride the rising waves in the real estate listings arena, Google Inc. has introduced a new real estate search feature that will empower users of its product in Australia and New Zealand search for property listings on the Internet giant’s mapping service. This new feature will provide up-to-date listings of […]

Sunnyvale, California — To the amazement of many old-time librarians, web search has become the default first stop when most people do research. Yahoo, the Sunnyvale, California company will release a new tool today to help the number of people who can test its Search Pad service, an on-line notebook for saving and sharing notes, […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo Inc. might be witnessing the dust settling down in at Sunnyvale, Calif., company after nine months of severe cuts internationally. Following the recent management shake-up of Yahoo’s global marketing executive team with the appointment of Elisa Steele as CMO, and the recent hiring of Penny Baldwin as SVP of global integrated […]

New York — The U.S. Department of Justice last week initiated an anti-trust investigation into the proposed Google Inc.’s USD 125 million deal to settle copyright issues with book publishers over the digital publishing rights to certain books, citing antitrust concerns. The settlement, which Google reached with the Authors Guild and the Association of American […]

New York — A copyright management company called Music Copyright Solutions (MCS), last week initiated a legal proceeding against Microsoft, Yahoo and Real Networks, alleging that each of their online music stores — Zune, Yahoo Music, and Rhapsody — infringed upon their copyrights for more than 45,000 pieces of compositions and the authors of music […]

San Francisco — While making some essential modifications to contacts, Google Apps has dipped its toe into the enterprise social networking waters. Google has issued a few enhancements late last week to various Apps services, including global address list functionality to its enterprise application suite, which enables users within an organization to share templates with […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo continues its executive restructuring and software firm NetApp has become the best recruiting ground for tapping Yahoo’s bast marketing talents. Yahoo once again hired another smart talent “Penny Baldwin,” an ad agency veteran, as its senior vice president, to promote its global integrated marketing and brand management. Yahoo has earlier hired […]

New York — Lately, a lot many users are discontent that Google Chrome lack support for add-ons. But announcing to the call of distress, Yahoo’s developers have released an experimental version of a Delicious social bookmarking extension for Chrome, which strongly indicates that the technology foundation is coming to fruition in Google’s browser. “Delicious add-on […]

San Francisco — Google is consistently introducing smart new features to its Gmail users’ emailing pleasure. Google just recently announced a series of changes to Gmail’s labels, a graceful feature designed to allow people categorize and organize their e-mail messages in lieu of folders, which the company has resisted providing in its webmail service. Gmail, […]

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft is taking a shot into the hot new arena of real-time search. The Redmond, software company on Wednesday began adding some Twitter posts into Bing, the search engine it launched a month ago, gaining a bit of a leg up on competitors even though the capability is limited. For now, Microsoft […]