San Francisco — Yahoo-owned Flickr, late last week unveiled its “radically revamped” mobile video-sharing site that makes the popular website more social and easier to use on the move. The improved version, in addition to some improvements to the mobile site’s user interface, the update adds video playback capability now available Apple iPhone and iPod […]

San Francisco — Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn, who lobbied for a Microsoft Corp. takeover earlier this year, wishes to reap profit from his $1.8 billion bet on Yahoo Inc., held talks with the software company about a purchase of Yahoo’s Internet search business, without reaching an agreement, according to a regulatory filing. The billionaire […]

San Francisco — Search titan Google Inc. on Friday rolled out an updated interface to Google Reader habitués when they next logged into the platform to find a renovated, much cleaner and faster interface from which to manage their RSS feeds. The aim is to simplify things with an attractive look and feel. The new […]

Redmond, Washington — As violation of valuable data continues to hit the headlines, Microsoft has tapped RSA, the security division of Hopkinton, Mass.-based EMC, to help protect its enterprise customers from sensitive information leaks. The companies this week said they would incorporate their data protection products in an effort to further deepening of their long-standing […]

New York — Google and Facebook on Thursday independently announced the general availability of their rival technology platforms that is designed to infuse websites with trendy social-networking features widely across the web. The Palo Alto, Calif., start-up Facebook Inc. Thursday announced the general availability of its long awaited “Facebook Connect” service for the public, in […]

San Francisco — Software behemoth Microsoft Corp. Thursday confirmed that it has tapped former senior Yahoo Inc. executive Qi Lu, to head its struggling Online Services Group and boost its Internet search and advertising businesses, but in the process, it has lost Brian McAndrews, one of its own top advertising executives. The software giant, who […]

New York — Massive Inc., Microsoft Corp.’s in-game advertising subsidiary, announced a multi-year ad partnership with “Guitar Hero” and “World of Warcraft” game publisher Activision and its corporate sibling Blizzard Entertainment, a company specializing in Web-based multiplayer games, to provide ads for 18 of its titles and for Battle.net, its online game service. In doing […]

San Francisco — Another Internet radio fatality due to escalating royalty fees for airing music online. Yahoo’s Launchcast streaming radio service, once considered one of the titans in the streaming music space, is planning to transfer control to CBS Corp.’s webcasting network in a move driven by dramatically higher fees for airing music online. Yahoo’s […]

New York — Internet search behemoth Google Inc. amid slowing revenue growth; plans to squeeze more ad dollars through new projects, has enthused further interest in its television advertising platform, entered into partnership with Hallmark Channel that will enable advertisers access to high-quality family-friendly programming through the Google TV Ads program, the companies said Wednesday. […]

San Francisco — MySpace, the world’s leading social network site, a division of News Corp., and RipCode, the pioneer in offering Internet and mobile video system solutions, announced today that MySpace Mobile users worldwide will now be able to enjoy MySpace video content from their video enabled mobile devices while they walk and watch TV […]