Mountain View, California — Search engine giant Google made an interesting announcement late last year that it would expand running of its AdSense style display ads across its own network. Since then, it has appeared in Google New, Google Image Search, and other Google properties. Now Google has launched a number of financial display ad […]

San Francisco — Walking a tightrope in the midst of economic downturn, dodging every obstacles while attempting to achieve stability, the struggling Internet powerhouse, Yahoo Inc. is planning its third major round of job cuts in 14 months, and the first since Carol Bartz became chief executive in January, which could affect several hundred employees, […]

Los Angeles — With the economic decline looming large all over the globe, consumers are either cropping down on their spending or actively looking to minimize expenses. And taking advantage this opportunity, AOL today will formally relaunch its completely revamped comparison shopping hub, AOL Shopping, to promote recession-friendly deals, coupons and sales to consumers across […]

Redmond, Washington — Software behemoth Microsoft Corp., vying for victories in the online advertising market, has finally triumphed in pounding Google and Yahoo to the punch, Microsoft Advertising has signed an agreement with the Discovery Channel to promote its “Deadliest Catch” TV series to the Redmond company’s Internet properties. With display ads becoming obsolete, Microsoft […]

San Francisco — Defending its mantra of free-speech about an anonymity-blocking law in South Korea, Google has disabled both the ability to upload videos and comments on the Korean version of YouTube video portal in reaction to a new law in that country that went into effect on April 1st, that requires users to provide […]

Sunnyvale, California — Shares of Sunnyvale, California based, Yahoo Inc. gained more than 7% in Nasdaq trading on Monday, amid speculation late last week that the company is in serious discussions with Redmond’s software giant Microsoft Corp. about a possible search and online-advertising partnerships. The Wall Street Journal and The AllThingsD blog reported Friday that […]

New York — The IAC/InterActiveCorp search engine Ask.com is attempting to impress its advertisers with improvised protection of content and scoring its paid serch clicks, has made alliance with metrics firm Anchor Intelligence’s ClearMark software for reaping the solution. Keeping in course with its commitment to make searching the Web a more safe and secure […]

Washington — The duo founders who developed web telephony service Skype, and sold it to online auctioneer eBay Inc. in 2005 for billions that has yet to pay off, seem to have another trick up their sleeve: buying it back, according to media reports. The two founders Niklas Zennstrom from Sweden, and Janus Friis from […]

San Francisco — According to recent statistics collected by Nielsen Online indicates that Google’s dominance of the U.S. search market share increased as its growth surpassed that of the overall market. The overall search market grew 16.7% to 9.5 billion searches over the previous year. Google now holds an estimated 64.2% of the “search share […]

Mountain View, California — In its relentless quest to improve what is regarded as Google’s real social network, which has always been extremely liberal with the volume of attachments it allows Gmail users to add to their emails, the company has just added a couple of new features in Gmail Labs that can be integrated […]