New York — In a weird development that looked impossible two years back, search engine giant Google Inc. last week agreed to cooperate publicly with Click Forensics, a click-fraud detection company with which it has had a rocky relationship. At the SMX East Conference, Click Forensics, Inc., the industry leader in scoring, auditing and managing […]

New York — With many of the profiles on MySpace, the social networking site’s users have posted approximately 4 billion photos. MySpace and Hewlett-Packard, on Tuesday announced that the two companies have teamed up to place a “Click to Print” button on MySpace pages, aimed at getting people to print out more of the billions […]

Washington — A Google backed high-powered GeoEye-1 imaging satellite has beamed its first images back to Earth, barely four days after being launched into space in a successful test of a camera that will supply images for the Internet giant’s free online map and navigation services. Some five weeks after its launch on Sept. 6 […]

Software major Microsoft Corp. has scheduled a conference call on Monday, reaching a step closer to announcing among other products, the release of its Silverlight 2.0 browser plug in, its’ rival to Adobe’s Flash. With all heads turned towards official release of Silverlight 2.0 around the company’s Professional Developers’ Conference (PDC), Microsoft has issued the […]

Google is now tapping on another search-associated ad revenue source, this time on Google Maps. With Google’s stock considerably declining in the past two weeks, Google is taking a shotgun approach to the economic downturn — Earlier this week, they announce “Click-to-Buy” links on YouTube videos, and then “AdSense for Flash Games,” and now text […]

Mountain View, California — Alluring to large organizations and enterprise customers burdened by federal rules requires that electronic message such as e-mail be archived, securely and reliably for litigation or other legal issues. Google is extending its hosted e-mail archiving service called “Google Message Discovery,” to hold messages for up to a decade, the company […]

Sometime around mid of this year, Yahoo Inc. acquired a web service company called IndexTools. Now, several months later with string of product launches that competes with existing Google offerings, on Wednesday began rolling out a beta version of its new Yahoo Web Analytics Tool, which it says will provide advanced reports and graphs showing […]

San Francisco — Internet’s most popular video-sharing site YouTube on Tuesday added links to its stores of a home shopping network in its latest effort to squeeze more revenue from its massive audience and justify the $1.76 billion that Google Inc. paid for the site two years ago. The Google-owned service, unveiled Tuesday in the […]

New York — After months of testing, Google Inc., the leader in online search and advertising, is muscling in on video game territory — seems to be serving ads everywhere these days. Its hottest advertising service now targets all those people who waste their workdays playing casual games. Google on Wednesday is launching in public […]

New York — World’s largest online retailer eBay Inc., which is trying to reverse years of slowing growth in its auction business amid rising competition and a spreading financial crisis, announced on Monday it was cutting 1,000 permanent employees and several hundred temporary workers, about 10% of its global workforce, including jobs in India, even […]