San Francisco — Facing thorny questions about possible conflicts of interest, Google Inc. plans to break off its search marketing arm from its affiliate marketing business, said it will sell a recently acquired service called Performics that helps Web sites improve their ranking on online search engines, including Google’s when it bought DoubleClick.

New York — In a short span of two months, Google has lost another junior member of its executive team — Douglas Merrill, Chief Information Officer at Google, is leaving the Internet search company to become a president of digital at EMI Music, the recorded music division of EMI Group, according to an executive briefed […]

Mountain View — Continuing an April Fools’ Day tradition, Google and Virgin have joined in a co-venture called Virgle to settle humans on Mars by the year 2050. April 1 in the technology sector is at all times fun. Who can forget Opera’s 2005 press release about a “short- and medium-range interpersonal communication” technology “enabling […]

“Despite common belief that it would dig deeper into its pockets if necessary to land Yahoo deal, the Redmond Vole has no plans to sweeten its offer for the Web portal,” according to published reports. San Francisco — It has been nearly two months into Microsoft’s wooing of Yahoo!, the duo are no closer to […]

Airtel, Google Together Launches Airtel Live Portal  New Delhi – Indian telecom service provider Airtel Telemedia Services, on Monday announced the launch of “airtellive.com,” claimed to be an all-in-one Internet portal for its customers, making it the first telecom company in the country to launch such a portal, the company said in a statement. “The […]

Yahoo Launches Site For Women To “Shine”  San Francisco – Yahoo on Monday announced a new Web site designed to providing most relevant information to women. The website known as “Shine,” aims to make an exclusive place for the just about 40 million women among the ages of 25 and 54 who already come to […]

Google Docs Geared Up To Battle With Microsoft San Francisco – Google Inc. said on Monday it has taken steps to broaden the reach of its Web-based software useful in the real world that competes with Microsoft Corp.’s Office computer software by allowing users to edit word processing documents offline.

New York — In a move likely to appeal to the growing number of companies looking to add video their Web sites, the popular video-sharing site YouTube Inc. last week rolled out a tool that contributes more details about who is watching their video clips and when, offering advertisers additional insights they can use to […]

“Company’s only option to compete with Google is to acquire Yahoo, analyst says.” San Francisco — It may have insisted time and time again that its $41.7 billion buyout bid for Yahoo is “fair”; but it seems that software giant could “raise” the offer by taking away stock component. “Yahoo has officially rejected Microsoft’s blockbuster […]

San Francisco — Google Inc., last week disclosed that it has invested $1 million in a start-up company Comsenz Inc., a Chinese company that provides software and services for online community networks. It is nevertheless a different move by Google to expand its foothold in China. Reports of Google’s investment funds in Comsenz showed up […]