Mountain View, California — Search engine giant Google is making every possible effort in an attempt to cover up every pixel on the web browser, has begun to display text ads when users search for public photos on its Picasa photo-sharing site, part of its stepwise expansion of advertising across its numerous Web properties. During […]

San Francisco — AOL’s popular teen and young adult social-networking site Bebo, on Monday announced the expansion of its reach to include five new European countries such as France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands, offering premium video content via media partners, its first major expansion outside the English-speaking world, the company said Monday. Owned […]

Austin, TX — Facebook on Saturday announced introduced a new application for the iPhone and iPod Touch at the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, TX. Facebook’s new Facebook Connect for iPhone now allows users of its flourishing social-networking community to have fun on the road by connecting their iPhone applications with their Facebook friends, profiles […]

New York — The Internet-video streaming hub Hulu is the latest website to jump into the social networking bandwagon online, in anticipation of creating user loyalty and mining data to attract more advertisers, now allows its members collect friends lists much like a standard social-networking service, the site said last week. Hulu is now celebrating […]

San Francisco — comScore, Inc., leader in tracking the digital world, last week released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace, which indicates that search engine giant Google, Inc. continues to lead the U.S. core Web search rankings in February 2009, while rival Yahoo! stood a distant second, according to figures released […]

New York — Taking a different approach to Google’s Latitude software, Yahoo’s Fire Eagle team on Friday released a new app called, Friends on Fire, which integrates the location-based service to Facebook’s social network, enabling people to share their location with each other.  Google Latitude is an island unto itself, employing Google’s own technology for […]

San Francisco — Search engine Goliath Google on Thursday intensified its push into the telephone market, announced the release of Google Voice, an application developed to provide a number of phone-related services that looks set to rival apps from Skype and Truphone,, including automated voice mail transcription and the consolidation of multiple user phone numbers […]

Washington — Microsoft on Thursday pulled the plug on adCenter Analytics service, even before it exited the beta at the end of the year, and it seems that the company does not plan to replace it. Testers received a letter from Microsoft on March 12 to informing them that it was discontinuing the analytics test. […]

New York — Ever since AOL has established itself as the widest-reaching online advertiser with its Platform-A, who better to take over as CEO than a Google advertising guru? Time Warner’s CEO Jeff Bewkes on Thursday announced that AOL’s present chairman and CEO Randy Falco will be replaced by Tim Armstrong, the longtime mentor of […]

San Francisco — The comptrollers have invaded the Googleplex, once an empire of “freebies” is now being replaced with “fee”. Google Checkout has so far offered steep discounts to Google AdWords advertisers, is now shifting to a tiered fee structure that will eliminate a key promotion tied to merchants’ use of AdWords. Not sure if […]