Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo Inc.’s chief of communications Brad Williams, has left the company, according to reports appeared at the weekend on The Wall Street Journal, quoting sources familiar with the issue. The development is the latest in management reorganization orchestrated by Yahoo’s new CEO Carol Bartz. Yahoo’s hard-liner chief executive Bartz had reportedly decided […]

New York — As expected, Rupert Murdoch’s social media flagship MySpace finally ended the hectic week announcing the appointment of former Facebook Inc. Chief Operating Officer “Owen Van Natta” to the role of MySpace Chief Executive Officer effective immediately, replacing co-founder Chris DeWolfe, in an attempt to revive the social-networking Web site. Parent company News […]

New York — After the recent real-time modernization of many websites like Facebook and FriendFeed, it seems that YouTube has also got the penchant for the real-time bug too is now fiddling around with a similar notification feature imaginatively called “YouTube RealTime,” according to TechCrunch. Today YouTube has released the beta version of YouTube RealTime, […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo Inc., on Thursday announced that it is closing down its free GeoCities site, one of the pioneering web services that hosted personal home pages for consumers, which it acquired at the height of the dot-com boom for more than $4 billion 10 years ago, ending an era of self-expression on the […]

San Francisco — Internet search titan Google is intensifying its effort to combat the declining ad market said today that it would offer a free AdWords campaign to the tune of $75 to help more than one million Australia’s small and medium businesses with the stated aim of giving them a boost in tough economic […]

Redmond, Washington — Years after following the foot-steps of its rivals Yahoo and Google, the Redmond Vole has finally integrated around 20 new third-party applications into Windows Live Messenger with its Windows Live Hotmail e-mail service, in an effort to make its online services hub more like a social-networking site vis-à-vis Facebook. Word of Web […]

Sunnyvale, California — After taking stock of its profits that plunged nearly 80 per cent as advertisers cut spending amid the recession, Chief Executive Carol Bartz, on Tuesday assured as she delivered first-quarter financial results that Yahoo! will jettison five per cent of its worldwide workforce. The 5 percent job cuts will be different this […]

Software behemoth Microsoft is finally making a headway in winning over its arch rivals, on Wednesday released its pubCenter ad publishing tool available for the public beta testing, providing more of an alternative to Google’s AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network technology that places ads on publishers’ sites. The public beta is available for U.S. public […]

Washington — Social-news portal site Digg is terminating its three year exclusive online advertising relationship with Microsoft more than a year earlier that the deal was was originally set to expire, according to ClickZ. Rather than depending on Microsoft as its exclusive ad partner, Digg will now basically employ its internal sales force it recently […]

San Francisco — Search engine titan Google on Tuesday unveiled a tool called “Google Profiles” that empowers people to exercise some control over personal profiles that people read about them that appears on the bottom of search results pages when someone looks up a name. Google profiles consists of basic information and images that people […]