Search engine giant Google is attempting to move beyond its core search business and beyond the web in general have put a post on their adwords blog publicizing their latest Pay Per Click (PPC) innovation. Google on Thursday announced that it is introducing “Google TV Ads” to all U.S. AdWords advertisers, an all-digital system that […]

Yahoo still suffering under the looming shadow of a Microsoft hostile takeover attempt has struck an agreement with a startup company Jajah to outsource the Phone In and Phone Out Internet telephony functions of its Yahoo Messenger chat and instant messaging application users in over 200 countries. “Jajah grabs the opportunity to serve 97 million […]

Starting today, locating your way around town will be easier than ever: Google on Tuesday has reinforced the driving directions feature of its Maps service by adding photographic images of intersections and other key points along the route. “By merging the features, Google said users can now obtain a better picture of their route alongside […]

Dulles, Va. — On the heels of Open AIM, Time Warner’s AOL today introduced “Open Voice APIs” to provide third-party developers and VoIP device manufacturers with open standards protocols that will allow its VoIP service to run on softphones, the software that enables computerized calling, SIP-enabled devices, as well as cell phones with Wi-Fi connectivity.

“Google makes spreadsheets and presentations applications program work offline, rivaling Microsoft Office and SharePoint.” A couple of weeks ago, Google announced that it would use its open-source Google Gears platform to support offline editing and viewing of Google Docs content. And now, Google’s online PowerPoint program, called Presentations, recently added some great new — and […]

“If a picture is worth a thousand words, how important is the capability to find the just the right image of an object from the entire Web?” Search engine leader Google Inc., which already has a very successful “PageRank” technology for sifting web pages, the company has now taken a step further by unveiling a […]

San Francisco — Yahoo might look a lot like islands of Web properties, but the company has started a mammoth re-engineering project that will unify the disparate services Yahoo runs into one huge platform. On Thursday, Yahoo announced its “Open Strategy” at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. “We are not building another social […]

Redmond, Wash., — Microsoft so far might have failed in its attempts to romance Yahoo, but its moves on a company from Norway have been much more successful. On Friday, Microsoft Corp. announced that it has completed its $1.2 billion purchase of Fast Search & Transfer ASA, an enterprise search company based in Oslo, Norway. […]

San Francisco — Google Inc. said on Wednesday it is shaping out its portion of the mobile advertising market, has unveiled brand-image ads for mobile phones, in a bid to extend beyond the computer-based Web market, joining Yahoo, AOL, MSN and a host of niche players scrambling toward the next frontier in interactive advertising on […]

San Francisco — CNET Networks Inc., faced with troubled shareholders who want to expand the board, posted a narrower first-quarter loss on Thursday announced with a broad, multi-year strategic partnership that includes content, advertising, and search marketing components with Yahoo Inc. that will allow the Web portal to sell ads across its range of sites. […]