Mountain View, Calif. — Google is speedily marching ahead with its plans to integrate display advertisements into image searches, the search giant officially announced today via webcast, during a press event at the company’s headquarters. “What we are announcing today is a new suite of image-related experiments in which we are pairing display ads with […]

San Francisco — Back in February, Google announced an ambitious pilot project called Google Health, a long-anticipated U.S. health information service along with the Cleveland Clinic to provide hundreds of clinic patients with tools to collect; manage and store personal health records online. “Like various other Google’s new services, Google Health is in beta; although […]

While the overall tech world relaxes and watches the Microsoft/Yahoo! saga, outlandish plots unfurls. Hardly two months after first unveiling the deal — AOL said on Monday that it has closed its US$850 million acquisition of Bebo, a U.K.-based online social network with more than 40 million members.

News Corp.’s Ad Network To Court Financial Sites New York – News Corp. is grouping some of its Web sites, is introducing a global network to sell financial advertising targeting Latin America on Web sites gained in the purchase of Dow Jones & Co., part of Chairman Rupert Murdoch’s effort to exploit the $5.2 billion […]

San Francisco — Struggling Yahoo Inc. has signed an advertising joint venture deal with WPP Group that will let WPP holding company’s shops to buy ads on Yahoo!’s Right Media Exchange, the companies said late on Thursday. Perhaps this deal has been planned for months, but it appears that a little pressure has once again […]

Washington — Microsoft Corp., the software maker that withdrew its $47.5 billion offer to buy Yahoo! Inc., announced Sunday afternoon it has issued another proposal to the Internet Company that would not involve a new takeover bid, but said it may still consider a full acquisition. The announcement comes just days after billionaire corporate raider […]

“Web portal Yahoo open’s SearchMonkey developer tools that can add reviews, images, ratings and other information to enhance search results.” Yahoo Inc. on Thursday formally opened its new SearchMonkey development platform that will allow developers community and third-party programmers to begin creating applications to add pertinent information like ratings, reviews, images, contact information and navigational […]

The industry thrust for data portability brotherhood hit a bump on Thursday when Facebook suspended Google’s Friend Connect service from accessing Facebook members’ information. A post Thursday on Facebook’s developer blog, explains that the social network has suspended participation in Google’s “Friend Connect” project because “it redistributes user information from Facebook to other developers without […]

New York — In a move that reflects a new strategy, Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp which owns Ask.com has acquired Lexico Publishing Group, an Internet media company that owns sites that includes Dictionary.com in its latest effort to distinguish itself from online search leader Google and other much larger rivals. “A similar attempt last year was […]

“With the failure of Microsoft’s takeover bid to acquire Yahoo Google has prompted industry watchers to ponder whether Google’s dominance of search advertising poses any dangers for the Internet.” New York — Hitwise, the leading online competitive intelligence service, on Wednesday announced that the search giant Google accounted for 67.90 percent of all U.S. searches, a […]