Big Yahoo Shareholders Demands Inquest Over Voting For Yahoo! Board San Francisco – Jerry Yang, the co-founder and chief executive of Yahoo! may be contemplating that he has put to rest the search engine’s controversial annual meeting behind him during the fag-end of last week.

Google’s Experimental Human-Powered Translation Goes Live Google in its latest move to break the language barrier between the vast nations of the world, today unveiled a new human-based translation service, an extension of its Translate service called Google Translation Center, for freelance and professional translators. This is a remarkable move, and carries broad significance for […]

Time Warner Warns: Jonathan Miller Cannot Join Yahoo Board “Non-compete clause freezes former AOL chief till March.” New York – Time Warner Inc. said on Friday that it had barred the nomination of Jonathan Miller, the former chairman and chief executive of its AOL Internet unit, from joining Yahoo Inc.’s board until March 2009. “Yahoo! […]

Amazon.com Plans To Buy Online Bookseller AbeBooks Amazon.com, the world’s largest Internet retailer’s collection of books is about to grow larger, older, and rarer. The company on Friday announced that it plans to acquire Victoria-based rare and out of print books specialist AbeBooks.com for an undisclosed sum. No financial terms of the acquisition were given, […]

San Francisco — The demise of Scrabulous on Facebook may have been a sad event for many, but at least it was just a transitory one. Scrabble knock-off Scrabulous was reincarnated on Thursday as online game under a new name and with some minor tweaks “Wordscraper,” in a move that could help fend off a […]

{mosimage}Barely few weeks ago Google brought out Google Maps for mobile with Transit directions for BlackBerry and Java-based handsets. Now, Goggle Maps for Mobile has been upgraded to 2.2 of the application for Symbian S60 (3rd edition or later) and Windows Mobile (2005 or later), with public Transit directions. To make use of the outstanding […]

“Embattled CEO Jerry Yang and other Yahoo official’s won huge shareholder support in vote.” San Jose, Calif. — Jerry Yang and the Yahoo Inc.’s board while taking some heat at the company’s annual shareholders meeting Friday, with attendees bombarding with questions on numerous issues, largely emerged unscathed and won strong support from shareholders, with Jerry […]

Google’s Street View Gets Green Signal For Launch In UK London – Google’s controversial Street View photo-mapping tool — which will offer ground-level pictures of every UK neighborhood — has been given the all-clear signal to launch by the UK’s privacy watchdog, after the Information Commissioner said it had no more concerns. The Street View […]

{mosimage} Google Adventures Onto Corporate Venture Capital Funding Bandwagon San Francisco – Search engine giant Google is hoping to establish its own venture capital investment arm — another signal of resurgence into VC funding from corporations, and has hired William Maris, a 33-year-old former entrepreneur, to help coordinate the venture fund, according to a report […]

Delicious looks different! Delightful, even! Ten months since Yahoo! introduced a preview version of its now revamped social bookmarking tool Delicious, now dropping the dots from its former del.icio.us moniker, the company said Thursday. The revamped social bookmarking now has a faster loading speed and touts several new designs, easy to use, and has better […]