Entrepreneurs Jake Winebaum and Sky Dayton were widely mocked for lavishing $7.5 million on a single Internet domain name — business.com — back in 1999. It was the single highest price paid for a domain name at the time. New York — Business.com, the B2B search engine and directory, is up for sale and according […]

San Francisco — Yahoo Inc. said on Wednesday it would acquire Rivals.com, a site for fans of college and high school teams, bolstering the Internet media company’s place as the top U.S. sports site in audience terms. Jerry Yang has made his first move as chief executive of Yahoo, buying the college sports website Rivals.com […]

Washington — Perhaps bored with having conquered the online ad market, Google has just launched a blog focused on US government legislation and regulation, a move that betrays its growing interest in overt political affairs, reports Yahoo. The blog focuses on issues such as privacy and copyright protection. It has existed internally for over two […]

Yahoo! to Reach Over 15 Million Subscribers through This New Partnership, Taking a Leadership Position in Mobile Search in India Mumbai — Internet major Yahoo announced on Wednesday that it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with mobile service provider Idea Cellular in India representing a subscriber base of over 15 million. This new partnership […]

DotSause.com reports SEO.com has been sold to WashingtonVC for $5 million. Mike Mann is a prominent internet entrepreneur who sold BuyDomains Company a few years ago for more than $65 million. His latest tech venture is just that, a venture capital firm based in Washington D.C. which goes by the name of WashingtonVC.

Another day, another Google acquisition! Google acquired the last piece of its Google Office puzzle… The search engine giant on Tuesday announced that it has purchased “the assets” of Zenter, which produces software for the creation of online slide presentations, according to Sam Schillace, Google engineering director. With the purchase Google has one of the […]

Yahoo! to Reach nearly 100 Million Subscribers Through these New Partnerships, Taking a Leadership Position in Mobile Search in Asia Internet giant Yahoo! on Wednesday announced partnership agreements with six leading Asian mobile phone operators with a combined subscriber base of nearly 100 million. Yahoo Inc has said that six Asian mobile-phone operators, including LG […]

Seattle — Google Inc. plans to spend $600 million to build a data center in western Iowa, the latest site in a massive network of server farms holding hundreds of thousands of computers which run its Web services, Gov. Chet Culver announced Tuesday. The online search leader has already begun construction on a 55-acre site […]

Video-share site confident in face of litigation – Plans for further worldwide expansion Literally, it might be known as Voustube, Voitubo or Vocetubo, but the world’s most popular video-sharing site expanding its global platform introduced local-language sites in nine countries on Tuesday that will all just go by YouTube.

San Francisco — After exasperating investors for most of the past 18 months, Yahoo Inc. on Monday tapped co-founder Jerry Yang to replace Chief Executive Terry Semel, bowing to investor pressure as the Internet media company has failed to keep up with rival Google Inc. In the post since 2001, Semel has been under pressure […]