Bangalore, India — Internet search pioneer Yahoo Inc. has acquired a 30 percent strategic stake in Chennai-based firm specializes in tele-information search service, Info Network Management Company (INMAC), for an undisclosed amount…

Mountain View, Calif ., — Search engine goliath Google’s continuous efforts in keeping its cash-cow alive as ever, has recently released an upgraded version of their AdWords Editor 7.0 , which mainly focuses on providing advertisers with campaign critical metrics, is now available for download. The previous version of AdWords editor was 6.5.1. This version […]

San Francisco — Adobe Systems on Wednesday has released the Linux version of its Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR), a platform for building programs that cross the barrier between the web and your desktop, is now fully compatible with Linux operating systems, and bringing it up to speed with the versions available for Windows and Mac […]

New York — In an effort to reinforce trust with its users, search engine pioneer Yahoo! Inc. has thrown down the gauntlet to bitter rivals Google and Microsoft yesterday by revamping its global data retention policy the shortest among peers, promising to anonymize the personal data of Web users to 90 days from the previous […]

Redmond, Washington — While Microsoft continues adding up some big names from Yahoo’s search business, its own house is going through difficult times, as the company’s Live Search General Manager, Brad Goldberg is leaving Redmond to work for the Peak6 investment company, Techflash reports. According to reports from TechFlash, Goldberg will become CEO of the […]

San Francisco — Google has been vigorously working overtime to ensure that their billions in advertising revenue continue to multiply irrespective of declining global economic conditions. Their strategy: place sponsored listings into every pixel of the screen. Google Suggest, a drop-down feature in Google Search that auto-completes prospective searches, has begun testing ads that accompany […]

New York — Hasbro Inc., the world’s second-biggest board game maker, on Monday said that it has dropped its months-old trademark and copyright-infringement lawsuit against two Indian brothers accused of making a knockoff version of the Scrabble board-game for Facebook. According to documents the toymaker filed in U.S. District Court in New York, dismissed the […]

New York — Google Inc. on Monday said that its new Google Friend Connect service, which connects social-networking features into participating sites, has now been integrated with Twitter. “This indicates that now you will be able to Tweet from any Friend Connect-supported site.” “This means that now, when you link to a friend connected site, […]

Mountain View, Calif., — Search titan Google Inc. at its mobile blog announced that following its debut on Android as well as versions for the iPhone and BlackBerry, it is now adding “Street View” support of Google Maps on the Nokia Symbian/S60 and Windows Mobile smartphone platforms, which are popular in parts of Europe and […]

San Francisco — Just about a year after outgoing CEO Jerry Yang envisioned for a “New Yahoo,” and since months of preamble, Yahoo on Monday flipped the on switch for a massive project to begin interlacing trendy social-networking features into its popular free email service as it vies to be the preferred launching point for […]