Petr Mitrichev of Russia to Take Home Top Prize in New York City Petr Mitrichev, Russia – $10,000 Ying Wang, U.S. – $5,000 Andrey Stankevich, Russia – $5,000 Google Inc. has announced that Petr Mitrichev won the recently held Global Code Jam competition and was awarded with a $10,000 first prize. Mitrichev topped a field […]

New Adobe Flash-based Rich Internet Application (RIA) software is meant to be a simpler and more flexible for Managing and Reading eBooks and Other Digital Publications. Adobe Systems Incorporated is scheduled to release a public beta of Adobe Digital Editions, a Rich Internet Application (RIA) built from the ground up for digital publishing at its […]

Internet search titan Yahoo announced a deal to buy video advertising specialty company AdInterax. Yahoo, the California-based Internet search engine, is investing in Right Media Exchange and buying AdInterax, an online ad publisher. Yahoo said AdInterax’s technology would be offered in conjunction with its own online ad tools for behavioral targeting, geo-targeting and demo-targeting. AdInterax’s […]

Microsoft announced a deal to buy Colloquis, a privately held firm specializing in virtual service agents programmed to answers questions online. Microsoft Corp. lately announced that it has acquired privately owned Colloquis Inc., a maker of conversational online business solutions that feature natural language-processing technology. The company’s software lets customers send Instant Messages that retrieve […]