Sunnyvale, California— Barely a day after naming Carol Bartz as the successor to Jerry Yang as chief executive, Yahoo has given up its hope in Europe, and may be shutting down its Content Match by March 31, an advertising partnership program that allows Yahoo Publisher Network publishers to place Yahoo-selected ads on their Web sites, […]

Mountain View, California — Even Google feels the depression. Google Inc. said on its corporate blog that will lay off 100 full-time recruiters and is shutting down some engineering offices, in what might be seen as the latest sign as the recession has not spared one of the technology industry’s most flexible companies. The layoffs, […]

New York — Aiming to make it faster and easier for customers to find small brick and mortar businesses that advertise with Google when searching on Google Maps, is about to get a boost. Google AdWords has just recently announced the launch of new features for its Local Business Ads that appear on Google Maps. These […]

San Francisco — Have you ever wished to be a salesperson? — And that too for the search titan Google? Google, like other Silicon Valley companies feeling the heat of economic doldrums on Wednesday revealed a new strategy designed for better marketing of their products, which empowers companies to sell their own versions of Google […]

New York— Search engine giant Google expanded its usage by 72.07% of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Dec. 27, 2008, while Yahoo Search accounted for 17.79% of all U.S. searches and MSN took 5.56% of the share, and Ask.com received 3.15%, according to figures released by Hitwise Monday. While the remaining […]

San Francisco— Yahoo Inc. confirmed late yesterday that Silicon Valley’s Autodesk Inc Chairman Carol Bartz, who is best regarded as a no-nonsense female executive in business, took over the crumbling wheels of Yahoo! on Tuesday, professing to revive the ailing Internet firm and calling on critics to give it room to breathe — something that […]

New York — The Microsoft adCenter team just back from the holiday rolled out a bundle of new enhancements options to sort and filter your data. These enhancements include: First up is custom date ranges. The news custom date ranges feature empowers you to customize your campaign performance grids for easy viewing of performance data […]

San Francisco— According to a recent study made by a Harvard researcher claims that carrying out just two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate an equivalent amount of harmful carbon dioxide as boiling an electric kettle for a cup of tea. Google is being hard-pressed by the green thumb of researchers who say […]

New York— Besieged Internet portal Yahoo Inc.’s prolonged search for Chief Executive Jerry Yang’s successor is just around the corner. According to reports in WSJ.com, Yahoo! Inc. has culled up a list of candidates for new chief executive officers who namely are: Autodesk Inc. Executive Chairwoman Carol Bartz, Yahoo President Susan Decker and a third […]

San Francisco— Barely a month after releasing version 1.0 of its Chrome Web browser out of beta, Google last week released the pre-beta, officially called 2.0.156.1. Available through Google’s Chrome Developer Channel, the updated browser focuses on a number of new features, including some key features missing from the first version. The demand for supporting […]