New York — Google’s navigation services today fessed-up to an interesting situation that has recently made some interesting news headlines. Apparently, the driver of one of its Street View van, which was scouting the area collecting pictures, accidentally ran over a deer somewhere near Rush, New York, and the pictures were added to Google Maps. […]

San Francisco — As more and more people are having DVRs, Google TV Ads has embarked upon shadowing the devices. On Thursday, Google TV Ads, the search giant TV advertising platform, said it has made an alliance with MediaBank, a distributor of technology solutions intended to help better manage the end-to-end media buying process, will […]

San Francisco — Click fraud, a looming threat to the highly profitable pay-per-click search advertising business, surged significantly to a new high 17.1% in the last quarter of 2008 versus 16.6% a year earlier, thanks to scammers’ hacking and sophisticated use of botnets, according to stats released Wednesday by Click Forensics.

New York — The onset of the New Year has heralded bundles of dismay for many workers, with continuous news of job cuts coming amid tough times. Despite remarkable traffic growth as high as 27% yearly on its associated Web sites including new personal finance news service WalletPop, Time Warner Inc.’s underperforming AOL Internet unit […]

Washington — Since long, promoters of Net Neutrality, encountered innumerable hurdles when trying to sniff out problems: Is your Internet service provider meddling with your network traffic, and possibly even violating of Net neutrality principles? Well, the father of the Internet Vint Cerf, Google’s chief Internet evangelist on Wednesday along with the New America Foundation’s […]

New York — The major rivals in the browser war may still be Internet Explorer and Firefox, but now we have a new customer who is excited by to promote the recently launched Chrome browser through new ad possibilities at YouTube and Facebook: Google. Both YouTube and Facebook users began to notice promotions for Chrome […]

Mountain View, California — Lost connectivity to your broadband — cannot access Gmail? Well, now you can dispel your worries about remaining connected to access your Gmail account. Google on Tuesday rolled out a much awaited in beta, an offline capability for its Gmail platform empowering business and consumer, empowering users to access their accounts […]

San Francisco — Yahoo Inc., the Internet search portal ended its disastrous quarter in the red, nevertheless the setback is not as bad as expected. During its Q4 earnings call Tuesday, Yahoo baffled Wall Street’s pessimistic earnings expectations and posted a stronger-than-anticipated fourth-quarter profit, following many months of cost-cutting initiatives coupled with a weak advertising […]

San Francisco — Recently there has been a lot of chatter about hope and change as a new president has come to office. Yahoo! Search Marketing has updated its help center. While this enhancement possibly can not be coupled to Carol Bartz’s arrival, although search marketers can at least take it as a good sign.  […]

New York — Following the footstep of its arch-rival Google, software major Microsoft Corp. appears closer to wrap up its’ less than successful ‘Office Live’ product into its less than successful ‘Windows Live’ product under the Kumo name, presumably to allow the increasingly cash-sensitive firm to contain costs. Microsoft outlined the decision to integrate as […]