London — Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled plans to establish a search technology centre in Europe in 2009 as it seeks to bolster its Live Search efforts, following the firm’s failed bid for rival Yahoo. The plans revealed on Tuesday at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, is proposed to open sometime during Microsoft’s next fiscal […]

Frankfurt — eBay’s web phone division Skype, on Wednesday started a public testing of VoIP software’s latest version for making free or low-cost phone calls that intends to encourage casual video chatting more common. It has been a long time since Skype has received a major, often-demanded upgrade: Skype 4.0. President Josh Silverman calls it […]

 Microsoft Taps YuMe To Handle Unsold Video Inventory Online Redwood City, Calif., – YuMe, the largest online video advertising network, said today it had scored a deal with Microsoft Corp. to help Microsoft’s existing video advertising services, stepping up competition with Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc.

“Google Docs, the free Web-based office suite from the search giant, now offers some partial but still valuable support for PDF files.” Search engine giant Google Inc. last week announced a fascinating improvement for Google Docs, released an update to include PDF support, adding one of the most popular online documentation and form format to […]

“Now the barrier between two previously inaccessible territories of online chat is coming down.” New York — Just last week Google and Yahoo agreed on a search advertising deal to be run on some of their search result pages in USA and Canada. In addition, the two companies also “agreed to allow interoperability between their […]

 Google’s Broadband-Monitoring Tools On The Way “When your broadband connection pushes you in deep thought, Google wants you to know that it has your back.” Do you doubt that your ISP is doing some packet shaping or throttling your connection down? The fact is that you absolutely should know if shady crap like that is […]

“The Bay State’s [Blue Cross Blue Shield] health insurance giant has agreed to allow members to post claims data to Google Health.” Boston, MA — Less than a month after search engine goliath Google Inc. launched Google Health, a site designed to allow patients to store and organize their medical records in a central, secure […]

Ever since the launch of iPhone 2.0 that dragged the Internet to a screeching halt, when the struggling AOL trying to alter its business model ever since its ISP division all but caved in on itself; recently came up with an iPhone application that won the Apple award for “Best Entertainment Application” at this year’s […]

MySpace Is Poised To Release Major Site Redesign “News Corp. is accelerating its efforts to wring more ad coin out of MySpace.” The social-networking behemoth MySpace is set to release a major redesign of its website and tech functions next week, including upgrades to its navigation, user-profile editing and search applications as well as an […]

More High Profile Yahoo Executives Departs “More high-profile exodus from beleaguered Yahoo continues.” Yahoo’s EVP Network Division Jeff Weiner, who has been the subject of extreme speculation since the weekend, has submitted his resignation, our sources within the company say. But the big question is — who will replace him? Apart from the “imminent” departure […]