San Francisco — Japan’s largest online auctioneer, Yahoo Japan Corp., and the world’s largest, eBay Inc. of the US, said Tuesday that they will tie-up their Internet auctions business that could see customers of each site bidding on and buying items listed on the other, in a deal that will give eBay, the American auction […]

Not to be outdone by Google or Yahoo, Microsoft lifted the lid on two new search marketing tools and an accreditation program called adExcellence… “Microsoft is playing catch-up against Yahoo and Google — its chief competitors in the booming online advertising market — with a new program called adCenter Excellence introduced Monday…” Redmond, Wash., — […]

Michael Toutonghi is headed back to Microsoft after selling his Seattle based social networking site WebFives to the software giant… Software giant Microsoft has revealed that they are acquiring a Seattle-based social networking Web site called “WebFives,” which provides a Web-based file-sharing service for Internet and mobile video, photos, audio, and blogs, according to a […]

“Google Inc., owner of the most-used search engine, will apply to bid in the U.S. government’s auction of wireless airwaves to take advantage of the growing market for mobile-phone advertising…” After weeks of playing coy, Google said Friday it will bid in the auction for a highly coveted part of the nation’s airwaves, setting the […]

Finally the Windows Mobile users will be able to work with the files created with Microsoft Office 2007… “Close to a year after the introduction of both Windows Mobile 6 and Office 2007, Microsoft has finally gotten around to enabling you to manage documents created using the latter’s new Open XML (Extensible Markup Language) file […]

Facebook is poised to capitulate to privacy concerns and alter its controversial advertising system… “Facebook has drawn the ire of thousands of its users, and has once again bowed to the pressure of the political campaign against its advertising techniques…”

Google ads that aim to get buyers to pick up the phone are on hold — at least for now… Instead, the company is focusing on other types of ads, including ads sent to cell phone users and pay-per-action ads. “Google launched a pay-per-call program — it calls it “click-to-call” on trial that will come […]

Yahoo Widgets 4.5 offers a new platform for developers and a gallery for consumers… “In a tech era dominated by Google, Facebook and countless hyped start-ups, one way beleaguered Yahoo! plans to stay relevant is by riding the Web widget wave…” Yahoo Inc. on Thursday introduced an upgrade of its platform for building, finding and […]

The Monday after Thanksgiving contained a hellish several hours for Yahoo and merchants on its order fulfillment platform… What is one of the best ways for a web-based corporation to quell a user rebellion? Obviously – A transparent recounting of the issue and a mea culpa, of course. One very non-economic reason for small businesses […]

Dynamic ads integrated in Adobe PDF to drive new revenues for content owners… “Yahoo and Adobe will partner to allow publishers to run dynamically generated pay-per-click ads on PDF files posted on the Web or distributed via e-mail, opening up a new frontier in online advertising…”