Sunnyvale, California — Search engine pioneer Yahoo Inc. is all set to burn-down more fat today by closing its travel bargains website FareChase, a service that assisted users find travel bargains, and will begin redirecting users to its main travel site instead, spokeswoman Bahareh Ramin said in an e-mail, part of its plan to tighten […]

Mountain View, California — Modern day web users are accustomed to tagging photos on sites like Flickr and Facebook. But now Pixazza Inc., a new venture backed ad company, has released an innovative tool taps web images into clickable and purchasable content, similar to what Google’s AdSense did for Web pages. Google is participating in […]

Redmond, Washington — Software maker Microsoft Corp. is showing its might with its latest venture to compete with search engine giant Google’s popular Street View service, apparently plans to launch a mapping service later this year with its own application dubbed GeoSynth, according to reports. Google Street View has been both celebrated and criticized among […]

Mountain View, California — Search engine titan Google Inc. prides itself on setting trends, on Tuesday announced it has rolled out two new updates to its main search engine to improve the ease of searching, intended to produce much better results for complicated searches. The new technology that Google now employs will allow the search […]

San Francisco — YouTube, the video-sharing Web site owned by Google Inc., confirmed its website has become unaccessible in China, once again facing the ire of the China’s hard-line policies, a company spokesperson said Tuesday. Last year, during the March riots in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, China barred access to YouTube, although the California […]

Sunnyvale, California — With the ongoing shuffling of management under the leadership of recently appointed CEO Carol Bartz, Yahoo! Inc. announced that it has tapped Silicon Valley’s seasoned marketing executive, “Elisa Steele” as its new chief marketing officer, effective today. Steele will be responsible for managing the global marketing operations for the ailing search giant, […]

New York — Meebo, a web-based instant messaging service that allows people to access the service from anywhere, on Monday announced the extension to its successful advertising platform to include the growing number of partners that are deploying its Community IM product across a network of 40 different Web sites reaching over 45 million unique […]

London — Barely days after its launch, the UK version of Google Maps Street View, has drawn the wrath of the public, as well as academics and politicians. According to reports in the BBC, a formal complaint about Google’s Street View service has been sent to the Information Commissioner (ICO) in the UK, the Mountain […]

New York — Attempting to capture everyone’s attention, the search engine giant is now making it easier for wireless subscribers to watch YouTube on the go, and it has released a new application for most Symbian and Windows Mobile smartphones. Although not nearly as exciting as YouTube on the iPhone, Symbian and Windows Mobile users […]

Mountain View, California — While the use of coupons in stores are incredibly becoming popular these days, online is seeing its fair share, too. In fact, retailers in the online world are finding online coupons to be more influential promotional tools. And now to tap this consumers click, Google has released two new display ad […]