San Francisco — The battling Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet Company Yahoo Inc. is expected to announce its fiscal third-quarter financial results after the market’s close Tuesday, according to people familiar with the matter reported Sunday in the Wall Street Journal. The cuts will involve layoffs, among other things, these people say. The Internet Company will address […]

New York — The notoriously free-spending Google Inc., showing resilience in the face of a global economic turmoil, fastened its belt in the third quarter and delivered another strong financial performance Thursday that beat analyst expectations and reinforced its claim that search engine advertising can weather tough times. The results withstood increasing investor skepticism about […]

Last month, Yahoo Mash was shut down before ever leaving beta form. They have not completely abandoned social media. And now, Yahoo has renewed its attempt to making its site more social, with the rolling out a beta of its recently updated “universal profile” system, Thursday. The feature will enable Yahoo to better track and […]

London — Just about a month ago Yahoo UK yielded itself up to UK licensed gambling, with MSN UK following the same, and now its none other than the search engine behemoth Google UK that has succumbed to the pressure to reintroduce gambling ads to Adwords, something that will quickly generate many millions in additional […]

Google’s search advertising market might have been cornered, but that does not mean the advertising giant can not try your hand in display. People who wish to craft simple graphical ads, but are not really eager to hire a designer can now cherish, as Google has introduced a do-it-yourself “Display Ad Builder” for AdWords. According […]

Washington — With the present economic scenario globally, most people are terminating their vacation trips to far flung countries. But making a virtual tour of France might be the only solution many of us can afford right away. Google on Wednesday stretched out its Street View function of Google Maps, its free online mapping service, to […]

Adobe Systems Inc., on Wednesday announced a major update to its Flash Player 10 browser technology, featuring built-in 3D capabilities intended at empowering designers and developers to build Web sites with better video, audio, and graphics. The latest version 10 was dubbed as Astro, which hardly arrived days after Microsoft released version 2.0 of its […]