San Francisco — With the speculative Yahoo deal to strengthen Microsoft’s Internet search offerings now fallen apart at best, Microsoft it seems that is exploring other steps avenues to revitalize its Windows Live Search. The software major is in the process of re-branding, and according to web rumors has allegedly already acquired the domain Kumo.com […]

New York — Besieged Internet Search Company Yahoo! Inc., confronted with fainted hopes for a takeover by Microsoft Corp., amidst a fresh wave of media reports, is in negotiations to buy Time Warner Inc.’s AOL business, the financial news agency Bloomberg reported last week, quoting unidentified sources, said executives of Yahoo and Time Warner have […]

New York — After Google’s Chrome released from beta in January, the new contender to the dominance of Microsoft Internet Explorer’s crown as the number one Web browser, is in discussion with PC vendors to have its Chrome Web browser pre-installed on new computers. In addition, Google is also planning on versions of the browser […]

The Google AdWords blog yesterday announced that it is beta testing a new AdWords user interface. The beta test is conducted with a small group of U.S. advertisers. The beta test includes some improvements to the month-old AdWords management console. “If your account is included in the test, you should see a notification upon signing […]

Sunnyvale, Calif., — Yahoo, that purchased European comparison-shopping site service Kelkoo for about 475 million euros ($579 million) four years ago, has reportedly disposed of its wholly owned subsidiary for less than 100 million euros to U.K. private-equity firm “Jamplant” this holiday shopping season, Kelkoo founder and former chief executive Pierre Chappaz said Friday. Chappaz […]

Los Angeles — Search engine giant Google Inc., which recently launched voice and video chat utility for its beloved Gmail, is now ripe with another cool offering. Google, on Wednesday has released more than “30 Themes” you can choose from to make your in-box look more colorful, cool or just better tuned to your personality. […]

Sunnyvale, Calif. — Yahoo has scored another wireless conquest for its mobile Internet search tool. Yahoo and T-Mobile jointly announced Thursday that Yahoo’s “oneSearch” mobile search tool will be the default mobile engine to power Internet search made through T-Mobile’s new “Web2go” service, bringing the number of wireless providers using oneSearch to more than 70. […]

San Francisco — Are you upset with Google’s search results? Then simply wipe them out and personalize it to your hearts content! Hoping to embellish its search engine with a more personal touch, Google Inc. just yesterday rolled out a new feature called “SearchWiki” that enables people to elevate, delete, add, and annotate search results. […]

New York — Striving to bring to light every hidden treasure to the fore, Google Inc. today announced that it has opened one of the largest collections of 10 million historic photos and digitized images from the Life magazine archives in the world that dates back to the 1880s through to the seminal moments of […]

San Francisco — Just a year after it re-launched the commercial subscription edition of its anti-malware service for individual Windows users — The Redmond Vole, on Wednesday said it is changing its strategy for offering PC antivirus software, and intends to discontinue its “Windows Live OneCare” subscription-based consumer security suite, instead, the company said it […]