Web search firm’s new ad campaign will be its largest in two years; follows makeover to its home page. As its rivals create a bigger buzz on the Internet, Yahoo Inc. is hitting television, radio, cinema and online advertising to remind people that its Web site remains on the cutting edge of technology and culture, […]

Corel’s new SnapFire digital photo-editing and -sharing platform aims to dethrone our longtime favorite, Google and Yahoo. Corel Corp. got clobbered several years ago when it tried to beat Microsoft Corp. in the PC software market. Today, after being revamped top to bottom and recently re-listed as a public company, Corel faces an equally formidable […]

Social Search May Be the Future of Online Search, but Is It the Future for Yahoo? The Internet is full of Answers. The search and online portal operator will promote Yahoo! Answers with its largest advertising campaign in Britain since the dotcom boom. Yahoo! of late announced a service that allows users to ask other […]

Roughly three months after the launch of Windows Media Player 11 Beta 1, Microsoft has followed it up with a Beta 2 release of the next version of Windows Media Player for Windows XP, adding more online stores for buying digital music and letting users share content across various devices. Media Player 11 also has […]

Yahoo Inc. said it had signed a multi-year deal to have its search tools distributed on PCs made by Taiwan-based Acer. Yahoo is hoping the move will help its search engine and other online tools reach users long before they even log onto the Web. "Users will definitely have customer-oriented solutions," said Acer spokesperson Alison […]

Deal gives the search giant access to Intuit’s small-business customers–a sought-after advertising sector. Google just upped the ante in its desktop challenge to Microsoft The Web search leader hammered out a deal to include various Google tools in an upcoming 2007 version of Intuit’s popular QuickBooks small business accounting software. The partnership represents one of […]

New partnerships with nature- and environment-oriented groups offer videos, photos and blogs for specific locations. Touring a virtual planet earth, zooming in on environmental hotspots and comparing today’s crisis zones with yesterday’s areas of natural beauty have all become possible thanks to a partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Google Earth.

Telecom Italia has agreed to acquire Time Warner’s AOL Germany Internet access business for EUR 675 million ($870 million, Equity Value) in cash. Time Warner Inc. is giving up its foothold in one of the fastest-growing markets for broadband Internet access with a deal to sell AOL Germany’s Internet access business to Telecom Italia SpA […]

"Soapbox," which made its beta debut lately, is a place for uploading home footage on MSN Video. Microsoft’s new Soapbox on MSN Video site takes on the popular site YouTube, which has become an online sensation for viral and homegrown user-generated video. Also crowding the online video market are Google Video, Yahoo Video and Revver.

Under the judgment handed down on September 5, the Brussels court ruled that Google must pay a one-million-euro (1.3-million-dollar) fine daily if it does not comply. A Brussels Court has ruled that Google must remove all articles from Belgian publishing group Copiepress from its Google News service because it is in breach of author’s rights […]