Los Angeles — Microsoft Corp., the world’s biggest software maker, on Thursday said the variety of its software offerings helped its fiscal first-quarter profit edged up 2 percent, sustained through economic uncertainty that beats analysts’ projections as demand for Office and the Xbox video-game console held up amid the economic slowdown. Analysts surveyed by Thomson […]

Beijing — PC owners in China are resentful over Microsoft’s launch of “Windows Genuine Advantage” service, targeting Chinese computer users to ensure they buy genuine software, which turns users’ desktop backgrounds black if the PC’s software cannot be validated, according to the China Daily. Bloggers in the People’s Republic have swamped blogs and bulletin boards […]

New York — Yahoo! Inc. is poised to announce a content-licensing agreement with Waterfront Media’s Everyday Health Network, which has recently merged with Steve Case’s Revolution Health Network, and is challenging WebMD to become the top online health-information company. Under the agreement, Yahoo! Health will receive content from several of the Everyday Health portfolio of […]

Washington — In a last ditch with a weakening economy and the holiday retail season, Google on Wednesday, at the eMetric Summit in Washington, D.C., announced a series of enhancements and new enterprise-class features to its free Google Analytics product over the coming weeks, including integration with AdSense. The Google Analytics upgrade springs up barely […]

Yahoo, this week has launched a more precise geo-targeting options, giving advertisers the ability to target ads by ZIP code rather than just by city and state. This new tool will empowers search ad campaign managers to refine their search campaigns by selecting specific areas that their ads are aiming to reach. The ZIP code […]

San Francisco — Yahoo Inc., the Internet Company that early this year spurned a takeover bid from Microsoft Corp., announced plans on Tuesday to axe at least 10 per cent of its workforce to cope with a crumbling economy that dented its third-quarter profit falling to 64 per cent turning up the heat on the […]

Washington — Mobile developers have a new playground to tinker with the software to develop their own features. When Google first announced the Android operating system and formed the Open Handset Alliance to back it, the idea was always to release the mobile operating system as open-source code. Google on Tuesday, on the eve of […]

Los Angeles — First a CD-trading site, then a free Web-based music browser, Lala.com is no longer interested in just being a Web radio station. The site is geared up to re-launching Tuesday as a hybrid, browser-based iTunes competitor that enables users access their music libraries from anywhere they can access the Web and the […]

Attempting to seal a contentious advertising pact with Yahoo, Google has kindled up a persisting dispute with some advertisers that have raised fundamental questions about the fairness of its search advertising system. Both, Yahoo and Google have extended the Wednesday deadline for antitrust regulators to declare a decision on whether to block or give consent […]

Los Angeles — Innovating new ways to boost its Web audience, CBS Interactive is taking online streaming video to the next level in an attempt to recreate the camaraderie of the living room online. The new feature dubbed as “social viewing rooms” that enables groups of viewers to gather in virtual rooms to collectively watch […]