Sunnyvale, California — Neeraj Khemlani, Yahoo!’s ex-general manager and executive in charge of news and information, on Monday announced his resignation at the Web portal to accept the position of vice president and special assistant to the CEO at the media conglomerate Hearst Corp., amid reports that new chief executive Carol Bartz was planning a […]

San Francisco — The Time Warner-owned Web portal AOL on Monday rolled out a bundle of new features to beautify its social networking site Bebo, which it acquired in 2008, adding a “lifestreaming” feature from the social data aggregator SocialThing it also acquired that year, allowing a user to post stream-of-consciousness photos and other comments, […]

San Francisco — Search engine goliath Google has lately been showing deep interest in Microsoft’s Windows Mobile platform, and recently introduced its Google Street View service for Windows Mobile devices that offers street-level images of major cities on to the palm of your hand, but Google has released yet another goody application for Windows Mobile […]

Redmond, Washington — Software behemoth Microsoft Corp. rolled out a new initiative entitled “Elevate America” an online website focused on imparting job training effort aimed at giving technical skills to as many as 2 million Americans over the next three years “needed to succeed in the 21st-century economy.” The site offers wealth of information to […]

New York — comScore, Inc., a leader in assessing the digital world, last week released its monthly qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Regardless of whether a user is searching for jobs or video clips of Britney Spears, Americans carried out 13.5 billion online searches at the core search engines, and backing up the […]

San Francisco — A latest study suggests that Yahoo could be outstandingly winning the battle with archrival Google in the free web analytics market, despite Google’s success in the small and medium sized business market, Yahoo Web Analytics surpasses its rival in several areas, and is a better fit for enterprises than Google Analytics, according […]

Redmond, Washington — In a move that emphasizes true Software plus Services spirit; The Redmond software major Microsoft has released the adCenter Desktop beta currently serving the desktop client exclusively to U.S. and Canadian advertisers that manage less than 100,000 keywords combined in all adCenter accounts, and only in Beta stage, according to the adCenter […]

Sunnyvale, California — Struggling internet pioneer Yahoo Inc., wrestling to reclaim its market position from Google’s claw, on Thursday announced the introduction of a new online search advertising system with rich media capabilities, adding videos and images to advertising that previously consisted solely of uninspired text in its paid-for listings. Last December, Yahoo introduced Rich […]

Barcelona — Internet calling company Skype is busy forging up alliances with Nokia, the world’s largest mobile handset manufacturer for developing a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) software to be pre-installed for the cell phone maker’s top-of-the-range N97 smartphone, executives of both companies said Tuesday at Mobile World Congress 2009, in Barcelona. Nokia’s N97, which […]

Barcelona — Seizing the opportunity at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Tuesday, Yahoo unveiled a revamped and reorganized its mobile service that will offer an iPhone-like experience for people who cannot or will not splash out for the iconic but pricey Apple device as times get hard. The smartphone service will be released […]