New York — Yahoo and Time Warner-owned Turner Broadcasting System Inc. have hit the ground forging a multi-year strategic content and advertising alliance for sports-related content — that will see them sell advertisements on Yahoo Inc.’s NBA, golf and NASCAR pages, the companies said on Thursday. “Turner refused from dealing with another Time Warner web […]

New York — Yahoo might be facing a confrontation with investors at its annual meeting in August, but the company is continuing to release new initiatives designed to proclaim its technologies into businesses and organizations — and get their name in front of Internet-users eyeballs. Yahoo Inc. on Thursday announced it plans to offer its […]

“Ask captures a promising search and ads space with image sharing service Photobucket.” New York — High on the turf of a match-up between Getty Images and Yahoo-owned Flickr, IAC/InterActiveCorp.’s Ask.com, a leading search engine, announced that it now powers Photobucket.com, a leading standalone photo and video-sharing site, with its search technology under a new […]

Yahoo! Reveals Its New Search “BOSS” San Francisco – Having dropped down so far behind Google Inc. that it became a takeover target, Yahoo Inc., The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Web portal on Wednesday launched a new service called Yahoo! Search BOSS, that lets customers, academics and even rivals create a customized Web search services atop its […]

“AdWords Keyword Tool Now Includes Search Volume Data.” Google has just yesterday announced at it AdWords blog that it is adding an all important search volume data to its AdWords Keyword Tool, which would help advertisers to approximately evaluate how frequently people actually use particular search terms in order to more finely tune their ad […]

Google Beef-Up Gmail Security With Monitoring Tools “With phishing attacks and fraudulent e-mails are on the rise and continue to slip through Google Gmail’s security walls, the Mountain View-based company plans to work with eBay and its PayPal unit in an effort to protect e-mail users.” Google on Tuesday said it has teamed up with […]

Dailymotion, DoubleClick, AltaVista all appear on resume, too.” AOL has appointed an ex-Google executive to help head up its Bebo social media network. AOL’s Bebo considerably appears to be growing a little more powerful in terms of personnel; like Yahoo, Google has now become a target for talent acquisition over the past years, although it […]

San Francisco — In its latest quest to expand beyond its main mission of organizing the world’s information, Search engine leader Google is entering into the virtual world business Tuesday with the introduction of “Lively,” a product that lets users create highly personalized 3-D virtual rooms on the web.

Microsoft To Provide Ads For Rodale Health, Fitness Sites Microsoft Corp. and Rodale Inc. on Monday said it has signed an agreement to become the exclusive provider of contextual and paid search advertising to Rodale’s online portfolio of branded health, wellness and fitness Web sites. “Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.”

“The MSN Israel portal is presently a joint venture with Internet Gold.” Microsoft Corporation, the world’s largest software company, announced on Sunday that it has reached an agreement to acquire the 50.1 percent stake it does not already own in the MSN Israel online portal from Internet Gold Ltd. for an undisclosed sum, and become […]