New York — AOL has launched Digital City, a novel, magazine-style website that aims at entertainment enthusiasts and readers who are interested in “stories from around the world,” the company said. According to a company press release the website derives its name from a very vintage AOL brand, as “a new approach to geo-blogging by […]

Internet giant Yahoo! India announced plans to launch yet another social network for the 16-24 age groups in an attempt to capture the growing market in India. Dubbed SpotM, the new social networking site, Yahoo claims it to be an equivalent to Google’s Orkut is being under testing at its US headquarters. And although scant […]

Microsoft said Sunday that it proposes to introduce the JQuery JavaScript library with its Visual Studio developer tool suite. Over on the ASP.net blog entries by Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie and Scott Hanselman just announced that Microsoft will be supporting the jQuery JavaScript library as part of its official development platform with future releases of Visual […]

San Francisco — Visa Inc. last week announced its strategy to promote its services to the mobile phone market through developing mobile payment application for the new wireless phones powered by both Nokia mobile handsets and those running Google’s new Android platform. Additionally, Visa announced a pilot program that allows U.S. Bank Visa cardholders to […]

New York — Yahoo Inc.’s chief executive setting high expectations for the company’s forthcoming advertising platform, on Wednesday launched a much-anticipated upgrade to its online advertising platform that promises to introduce his company’s new system that will make Internet advertising cheaper and easier for publishers and advertisers. Web giant boasts of a “transformative development for […]

Barely a week after Microsoft introduced its beta of the updated Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! launches his bid. Yahoo on Tuesday released Yahoo! Messenger 9.0, instant messaging application for Windows XP and Windows Vista system. Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 is an update to its instant messaging program like the beta of Windows Live is Windows Live […]