Yahoo Search Marketing’s getting an extreme makeover. Earlier this year, Yahoo re-branded its online marketing unit. What was once called Overture became Yahoo Search Marketing in a move to more closely identify the group with its corporate parent. Next step: the unit moved from Pasadena, California, into fancy new offices in Burbank, California, home of […]

Google’s one-of-a-kind computer network gives it a chance to surpass Microsoft to become the most dominant company in tech, according to the author of a recently published book on the search giant. But what’s next? Author Stephen Arnold has closely analyzed Google patents, engineering documents and technology and has concluded that Google has a grand […]

Online Search Engine Google to Open New Research Facility in Pittsburgh Internet search provider Google Inc. said it will open a research and development facility in Pittsburgh next year and has chosen a Carnegie Mellon University robotics professor to run it. The facility will be charged with creating software search tools for Google. It is […]

This time, it was Microsoft that was snubbed at the last minute In 1996, America Online agreed to offer Netscape’s Internet browser to its five million customers. A day later, the nonbinding agreement was shunted aside when AOL announced that it had instead chosen Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser in a $100 million deal. America Online […]

With federal funds for basic computer science research at universities in decline, three of the industry’s leading companies are joining to help fill the void. Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are setting aside their bitter animosity to back a new Internet research laboratory aimed at helping entrepreneurs introduce more groundbreaking ideas to a mass audience. […]

Financial Services Group GUS Buys US Online Shopping Comparison Site PriceGrabber.com for $485M Retail conglomerate GUS has snapped up PriceGrabber.com, an online price comparison service for American shoppers, for $485 million (£273 million), as it moves to capitalize on the success of its financial services arm Experian.

Google has launched a special version of its Gmail e-mail service that provides mobile phone subscribers with quick access to their e-mail, the company said in a statement. The mobile application allows you to read and write emails. It supports photos, office documents and PDF attachments. Detail of the mobile e-mail service which is currently […]

Google Inc. has launched a new service intended to give searchers fast links to song lyrics, musical artists and CD titles on the main search results page. The music search feature is prominently placed above the main search results in what Google calls its "one box" area — where information such as weather, movies or […]

MTV Networks Inc. has partnered with Microsoft Corp. to develop an online music service to be launched early next year to rival the dominance of Apple’s iTunes. The service dubbed as URGE, it will be integrated into the next version of the software maker’s Windows Media Player and offer more than 2 million tracks for […]

Six Apart, a provider of weblog software, yesterday announced that Yahoo! Web Hosting is now offering its MovableType blogging software, bringing easy installation, speedy performance and full customization to businesses and independent professionals seeking to maintain high-traffic blogs on a scalable and reliable platform. Under the agreement, Yahoo Web Hosting customers will be able to […]