Palo Alto, Calif., — The social networking site Facebook on Monday started to roll out a major redesign that features a cleaner and simpler interface that links feed technology with user forums, aimed at simplifying the site and giving users more control and ownership over their profiles. Announced in a press release, Facebook’s new design […]

“Yahoo has reached a truce in its long-running takeover war with corporate raider Carl Icahn, who will join the Internet Company’s board.” New York — The prolonged conflict between Yahoo’s board of directors and investor Carl Icahn displayed signs of change on Monday as the two parties reached a settlement: On the eve of releasing […]

TiVo To Broadcast YouTube Videos To The Boob-tube “The television industry that was once wary of competition has now been bludgeoned by those wacky YouTube videos that 68 million people watch every month.” Los Angeles – TiVo Inc., the leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), recently announced thousands of its subscribers the […]

New York — With accomplishment comes’ set-back, and Facebook is facing a similar situation — initiated a long legal battle to pursue social networks that have cloned their design or features by suing German site StudiVZ. Facebook lawyers on Friday filed a complaint in a California Federal Court, accusing StudiVz, a German social networking site […]

Reston, VA -– With a lot of number crunching pertaining to earnings, revenues and search advertising have just come out for all of us to consume. comScore Inc., the leader in evaluating the digital world, last week published their June rankings for the top five search engines, with Google taking the lead at 61.8 percent […]

The official Microsoft adCenter blog announced the testing of a new pilot program that allows third party publishers add Microsoft’s contextual ads alongside their content in a self-serve format. “For paid search managers, this software will function very similar to Google’s Adsense and Yahoo’s Publisher Network.” According to a letter giving details of the program […]

“Having rested for half a year to absorb the 16 companies it acquired in 2007, Google is hungry again.” Moscow — Search engine giant Google Inc. said on Friday, that it had signed a deal with Rambler Media, the British-registered owner of Russia’s Rambler Internet portal, to purchase ZAO Begun, a Russian contextual advertising company, […]

“Software giant’s fiscal fourth-quarter profit with a $60 billion year fell short of analyst expectations.” New York — Microsoft Corp. the world’s largest software maker, on Thursday reported its fiscal fourth-quarter profit jumps to 42% to $4.3 billion, or 46 cents a share, aided by strong sales of its Office and Windows software, but the […]

San Francisco — In a rare financial setback, Google Inc.’s earnings growth bogged down more than investors had projected, said that second-quarter profits climbed 35 percent, falling short of loftier Wall Street expectations and sending its shares down 8 percent, raising fears that the ailing U.S. economy is starting to sap the Internet search leader.

Forget the mundane Q2 earnings at Google. The search advertising company today unveiled a first of its kind AdWords campaign type for all of their advertisers, one that places keyword and placement targeting in one interface across the globe that should make their advertising even more valuable. The Google AdWords Blog today announced that AdWords […]