Mountain View, California — Search engine goliath Google has adopted a novel technique to tempt its AdSense publishers, today announced that it will start adding relevant image ads to the bottom of the page users see after clicking a link unit topic in AdSense. So if you are executing AdSense Link Units on your sites, […]

London — Former Bebo architect Joanna Shields, the high-profile new media topper who promoted the success of teen-friendly social networking site, Bebo, has decided to part ways as prexy of AOL’s People Networks division, making a U-turn from New York to London to settle with her family and pursue entrepreneurial interests. According to an internal […]

San Francisco — A Russian Internet investment company Digital Sky Technologies (DST), has invested $200 million in Facebook for a 1.96% equity stake, empowering the social networking company a cash buffer during the recession and pegging its value at $10 billion, the social networking site announced Tuesday. Digital Sky Technologies, a global investment group that […]

Sunnyvale, California — Struggling search pioneer Yahoo has been once again experimenting with new homepage designs for mobile and Web both, emphasizing news feeds and applications as well as search results, and on Tuesday, it posted the latest concept. The company is testing the very latest design with certain users to make them more personally […]

New York — The online social networking websites Facebook and Twitter were back in business for Iranians, just a day after the government authorities blocked it reportedly to prevent supporters of a moderate in the presidential race from using it for his campaign, the Ilna news agency said on Tuesday. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has denied […]

Redmond, Washington — The Redmond software company is gearing up to introduce a new search engine next week and is reportedly dropping its Japanese codename, “Kumo,” in favor of the brand name called “Bing”, possibily accompanied by a massive $80 to $100 million advertising campaign for Bing, in an attempt to help it seize a […]

Mumbai, India — Yahoo India has entered into exclusive alliance with the fastest-growing Indian telecom operator Tata Teleservices, for providing online user interface to all Tata Indicom customers. Under the alliance, a co-branded Yahoo! India website would serve as the default homepage across all Tata Indicom internet access devices. Continuing to innovate and introduce unique […]

Tehran, Iran — Iran has banned the use of the popular social networking site Facebook since last weekend, in ahead of the June’s presidential elections, in an apparent attempt to muzzle the opposition reformist candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, as opposition voters increasingly turn to online social sites to promote their candidates whose fan page has […]

New York — Yahoo Inc., a one time biggest internet player on the planet, but has been facing hard times during the past few years after Google entered the search market and rapidly replaced Yahoo as the search engine of choice for many users. But under the new rider Yahoo has been keenly engaged in […]

San Francisco — Search engine giant Google’s “Street View” has once again been enveloped by controversy as German officials threaten with sanctions over how the company holds certain data used for its Street View map imagery and demands by German privacy watchdogs over its partially blurred images be completely removed from Google’s mapping service, which […]