Mountain View, California — Undoubtedly, search engine giant Google is not spared from the current economic recession that everyone is going through right now, and AdSense, Google’s cash-cow, the main source of the company’s income, is no exception. Hence, the search giant is making every effort to keep it steady, announced Wednesday in a blog […]

New York — Google Inc’s YouTube, the video-sharing Web site and Universal Music Group, the nation’s biggest recording company, are in the final stage of discussion to launch a music video site tentatively called Vevo, according to sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.

San Francisco — Data portability is the name of the game that everybody wishes to become part of it these days. From OpenID to Facebook Connect to Google Friend Connect, there are more and more ways to use a single login and make your information available anywhere on the web. And today, the latest to […]

Wakefield, Mass., — SEMPO, The Board of Directors of the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization, today declared the names of newly elected slate of officers for 2009. The new offices include Jeffrey Pruitt, formerly SEMPO president and executive vice president of corporate partnerships, iCrossing, was elected chairman, superseding outgoing chairman Dana Todd, CMO and co-founder […]

New York — Denver-based MapQuest Inc., the online mapping site owned by AOL, on Tuesday unveiled a revised version with a bundle of new ad products to its year-old “Business Locator” feature that incorporates the real-world locations of advertisers’ businesses by placing small icons on digital maps.

San Francisco — Last year, Yahoo trumpeted that it had stacked up its possession with a YouTube-like video hosting to its Flickr photo-hosting site — but only for paid users of the Pro version. The struggling Internet pioneer on Monday declared that all Flickr members with free accounts can now upload snippets of video to […]

Los Angeles — Want to use Google Chat beyond Gmail? Count your luck on Google’s latest sweetening of its user-customizable iGoogle site that now delivers the power to conduct Gmail chats from within iGoogle. The new feature means users will be able to chat with their friends and associates on the iGoogle homepage without having […]

San Francisco — Adobe Systems Inc., is aggressively widening the use of its Flash to the media world, on Monday announced a strategic and non-exclusive alliance with three companies of Time Warner Inc., to foster collaboration on creating new video experiences for some of the content provider’s online properties. The partnership includes new initiatives with […]

San Francisco — Microsoft on Monday announced that it is extending the availability of its online versions of several key Office productivity and collaboration applications for trial to businesses of all sizes in 19 countries and announced plans to release Microsoft Office Communications Online, including Exchange, SharePoint, Office Live Meeting and Calendaring service for the […]

New York — After draining out billions of dollars to defeat Google at its own game, Microsoft, seeking to develop “better and more useful” search lately revealed that they are soon going to conduct an internal testing of its long-anticipated update to its Live Search product called Kumo.com, a spokesman for the software company said […]