Seoul — Google, the world’s leading search engine, is expected to beef up its alliance with Daum Communications, Korea’s No. 2 Web portal, to make a full-fledged attack on the local market. Google’s chief will visit South Korea this week to discuss business cooperation with local partners, officials said Monday. A source familiar with the […]

New York — Responding to the drubbing it has received from rival Hewlett-Packard in the consumer personal computer market, Dell announced a major shift in its strategy with plans to begin selling desktop PCs at Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retail stores. The move marks a major push by Dell into the retail market after years […]

Since more people have mobile phones than computers, search giant Google has boosted its mobile features with a new mobile version of Google Calendar, that lets them view appointments registered in their Google Calendar from handsets with Internet capability. Google announced the new feature in a posting on its official blog site from Devesh Parekh, […]

Google may have some explaining to do to EU regulators who are looking into whether the search giant’s privacy policy complies with the law. Search engine leader Google has been told that it may be breaking European Union privacy laws by keeping people’s search information on its servers for up to two years, advisers to […]

Google has changed its approach to Internet searches by combining results from its established Web search service with offerings that help users find videos, images, maps and other content on one page. The move represents a significant overhaul of Google’s most-used function, will come in to effect soon and will be improved over time, executives […]

With $6 million buy of Aquantive, Redmond’s chief advertising strategist says company does not need to acquire more assets to succeed. Microsoft Corp., after agreeing last week to pay $6 billion US for aQuantive Inc., to gain a strong foothold in the online advertising business dominated by its rivals Google and Yahoo.

Facebook invites software developers to build applications and businesses to open retail spaces on the social-networking site. San Francisco – Facebook, the Internet’s second-largest social network, based in Palo Alto, Calif., is finally inviting thousands of technology companies and software developers to contribute features to its service — a move that comes three years after […]

Google is going to RSVP for the RSS party PDQ. Google is reportedly in the process of acquiring FeedBurner, a Chicago-based analytics and advertising firm which helps publishers monetize their RSS and XML feeds, according to published reports and sources. Michael Arrington’s blog TechCrunch, which focuses on Web 2.0 products and companies, reportedly broke the […]

The Oakland based company is pushing to make its online radio program more widely accessible. It has about 7 million users. San Francisco — Pandora Media Inc., the popular music site that recently unveiled an updated website, has teamed up with Sprint Nextel to deliver personalized streaming radio to its mobile phone users. Pandora, the […]

Jay Neely puts it best at his Social Strategist blog: "Whenever Google enters a market, big changes happen.” In a continual year long effort to make the Web more secure, the Anti-Malware team devoted to protecting its users from drive-by downloads at Google, shortly launched an Online security blog to keep web users well informed […]