San Francisco — Software major Microsoft Corp. and dissident investor Carl Icahn on Monday signaled that it is ready to resume negotiations with Yahoo only if Yahoo shareholders elect a new board at the company’s upcoming meeting, possibly paving the way for a purchase of the Internet Company in its entirety or just its search […]

Google Street View Faces Privacy Road Block In UK “The privacy troubles for Google have just begun as the first — Street View vans are spotted in the United Kingdom and European Data Protection laws are rolled out to greet them.” London – Google Street View has recently resurfaced on the news front again, as […]

Bowing to pressure from privacy campaigners and especially the objection on violation of California law — Google added a link to its privacy policy, though without cluttering up its famously sparse home page. Last month, privacy organizations, in a letter sent to Google CEO Eric Schmidt asked the company to add a link to its […]

San Francisco — Ask.com, the top Internet search division of IAC, last week finalized an all-cash deal of the previously announced agreement to purchase Lexico Publishing Group LLC, the owner of popular reference sites Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com. Ask.com, had disclosed the all-cash transaction on May 15, 2008. Financial terms of the deal, which closed […]

Just days ahead of the iPhone 3G’s release, Google has introduced yet another new version of Google Talk application made especially for the iPhone and iPod Touch user, designed to run solely through Safari browser without any need for software download or installation, giving you text chat access to all your Google Talk contacts. All […]

“Media giant Viacom’s copyright violation case against Google took a new twist in a ruling that could have serious privacy implications.” San Francisco — Rejecting privacy concerns, a federal judge has ordered Google to disclose to Viacom the video-viewing habits of everyone who has ever used YouTube in a decision that triggered an outcry on […]

Microsoft Outlines Plan To Sell Office, OneCare For $70 A Year Seattle – Long since, customers have demanded for an affordable subscription-based service for what has typically been professed as Microsoft’s steeply-priced software. And, if seventy bucks a year seems affordable enough, it has finally arrived!

“Google has argued that the source code is a business secret and cannot be revealed without running a risk of loosing the business.” New York — A federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday that has denied a request to compel Google Inc. and Google’s YouTube unit to turn over the source code at the […]

San Francisco — The US Justice Department’s antitrust division said that it has formally begun an antitrust inquiry into a planned Google-Yahoo deal reached last month that would authorize Internet behemoth Google to provide some search advertising for Yahoo, according to sources familiar with the inquiry. “We are examining the competitive effects of the transaction […]

Microsoft Acquires Natural-Language Search Firm Powerset San Francisco – After days of speculation, Microsoft on Tuesday confirmed that it will acquire San-Francisco based search-engine firm Powerset, a start-up that specializes in understanding the linguistics of people’s Internet searches instead of matching specific words they use. Neither company disclosed the financial terms of the transaction on […]