Redmond, Washington — Microsoft Corp. has decided to pare down its 3-year-old Internet-focused Live Labs — incubator to Seadragon, Photosynth, Deepfish, and Volta – is too expensive for this economy, and splitting the research-and-development brains into different parts of Microsoft’s online efforts. The Live Labs group was launched with much bravado in early 2006 as […]

San Francisco — Yahoo nowadays is paying some sincere attention to its Yahoo Search BOSS suite of development tools with a new variety of data available through its service, on Thursday said that it would be extending the Boss program to include new sources and better organizational capabilities, and has added Delicious to the mix, […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo Inc. on Thursday announced that it is expanding its cloud computing research efforts in academia and has made alliances with three more U.S. Universities, including adding new developer tools to its service for building custom search engines, BOSS. The three new universities being added are: The University of California at Berkley, […]

New York — Hot on the heels of the just announced their Click-to-Buy expansion service, Google’s YouTube, the popular video sharing site and Universal Music Group, the world’s largest of music recording company, on Thursday unveiled their latest joint venture: that they will launch a premium music video website called “Vevo” as they bid to […]

San Francisco — Google Inc.’s video sharing service YouTube, is constantly exploring ways to generate more revenue particularly on Copyrighted Content, recently extended the coverage of its Click-to-Buy e-commerce platform to eight additional countries as the popular video site aims to boost ad revenue. Click-to-Buy assists users find dedicated channels for music or HD videos-related […]

Mountain View, California — Search titan Google Inc. on Tuesday unveiled an improved and sophisticated Web-based version of Gmail and Calender services both for Apple Inc.’s iPhone and devices based on its own Android operating system, including access to messages that is faster and promises an experience similar to your desktop Gmail. The newly improved […]

San Francisco — Google Inc’s ad network subsidiary DoubleClick, that offers online ad-serving technology to ad agencies and web site publishers, today announced a deal with Adgregate Markets, the foremost provider of transactional advertising technology, to embed support for ShopAds e-commerce advertising functionality in web banner ads. The deal would allow clients to integrate e-commerce […]

Sunnyvale, California — Standing shoulder to shoulder with its arch rival, Yahoo Messenger has finally made it way to iPhone application on the iTunes App store today, which functions more than just allow you to chat with your buddies. With this latest offering, users of the Yahoo Messenger application will be able to IM no […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo Inc. is continually attempting to smarten up its diminishing services to attract more users is opening up to include third party services to its own. Yahoo is joining hands with other online music providers, will launch a revamped version of its music service today, which will include Artists Pages that will […]

San Francisco — Always on the move to empower its users around the world with something new, search giant Google on Monday said that it is going to begin adding a map of local findings to search results based on generic search terms such as “restaurant” or “dentist,” something that Google watchers have been buzzing […]