New York — Top online social-networking service Facebook on Wednesday began rolling out the update to user home-pages that brings a new look, enhanced filter system, and most importantly, real-time updating. Patience is evidently required. The company says the roll-out will take place in phases over the coming days. “The update will take place gradually, […]

San Francisco — Search engine titan Google Inc. growingly feels the pinch of recession will now employ a new tactics to strengthen it cash-cow, will use its surveillance of Web surfing habits to ascertain which ads are best suited to each individual’s interests, is introducing today the beta test of the new behavioral ad targeting […]

San Francisco — Even search engines get the pinch of recession. According to a recent report that has appeared at the WSJ blog, the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, (SEMPO), is trimming down its forecasts for the search-marketing industry, facing the ongoing economic turmoil to easily succeed through what has been a bright spot in […]

New York — Google-owned online video-sharing site, YouTube, on Monday said it is blocking all premium music videos in the U.K. after it failed to settle a royalty fracas with the country’s Performing Right Society (PRS), which represents composers and publishers.

Las Vegas — Given the hard times faced by the newspaper industry at this moment, it is not surprising that Yahoo Newspaper Consortium is adding to it existing 700 newspapers clone nationwide the Boston Globe and the St. Petersburg Times, as it convened a CEO summit meeting with newspaper executives in Las Vegas Monday. The […]

San Francisco — Search engine giant Google acknowledged that a privacy flaw within its free Google Docs online word processing service that inappropriately caused some private documents to be exposed, the company has confirmed. Just a small number of users was affected, and the issue has now been fixed. Engineers discovered a flaw in the […]

New York — It is praiseworthy to be able to offer 31.2 million free Gmail accounts, as Google has. Nevertheless, it is even more praiseworthy to get customers to pay for 40 million mailboxes, as Zimbra, the Yahoo-owned email and business software provider, has crossed a new milestone reported last week, representing a sharp change […]

San Francisco — Yahoo! Inc., owner of the second most-used search engine in the U.S., and its newly-accredited CEO Carol Bartz has been carrying out many changes recently, is in discussion with Vodafone Group Plc about the distribution of its mobile search product in Europe, people familiar with the discussion said. The pact may make […]

New York — Abiding by its mission to organize the world’s information, make it universally accessible, and baffle privacy advocates, Google Health on Wednesday introduced a new feature that allows patients share their electronic medical records with designated doctors, friends and family members or care providers who may be needed to help in emergencies. Google […]

San Francisco — In the latest geographic expansion of its ad business, AOL today announced the launch of Platform-A Canada, in an effort to allow easy access for advertising clients in the country to manage ad buys across the Web portal’s largest online advertising networks equipped with the most comprehensive suite of marketing solutions and […]