Yahoo! Inc., a leading global Internet company, launched Yahoo! Answers beta, a free service where people can ask questions and get answers from real people on any topic. Yahoo! Answers beta complements Web Search by adding a human element that allows users to ask straightforward questions and receive specific answers based on the collective knowledge […]

Microsoft has shortly opened the beta of OneCare to the general public, inviting Windows users everywhere to test the new all-in-one security suite that provides integrated antivirus, antispyware, and firewall capabilities. OneCare represents Microsoft’s first move into the consumer security market and is part of the company’s Microsoft Windows Live offering, which also includes the […]

Yahoo looks to raise effectiveness of advertisements by tracking searches and clicks of user. Yahoo Inc., the world’s biggest online advertising supplier, is aiming to fend off challenges from Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. by helping corporate marketers use both keyword and brand-based ads, its advertising sales chief said in a statement.

Amazon.com in a move with potentially far-reaching implications for the search market has rolled out the Alexa Web Search Platform, opening up its huge web crawler to any programmer who wants paid access to its rich trove of internet data. Nearly all the raw materials required to run a fairly complex Internet search service is […]

AOL to stick with Google Google has agreed to pay US$1 billion for 5 per cent of Time Warner’s America Online unit, shutting out rival bidder Microsoft, said a source familiar with the discussions. If the deal goes through — the Time Warner board is expected to vote on Google’s offer this week — Google […]

Chairman Bill Gates said that his company’s best programmers come from India. We have done an incredible job of taking the features of new technology to 1 billion people, Gates said. But now we have to work on taking them to the 5 billion out there who need to be included. The billionaire, who was […]

Answers Corp. announced that it had acquired Brainboost Technology LLC in a cash and stock deal worth up to $10 million as the Web search provider seeks to move beyond answering just "who?" or "what?" questions into answers that resemble natural human responses. The New York-based company, which was formerly known as GuruNet, said it […]

Yahoo is expanding its reach in the fast-growing Internet calling market, offering a service that will allow people to make and receive low-cost computer calls to and from regular phones. The long-expected move could make the Sunnyvale company one of the biggest players in the Internet phone-calling market, along with eBay-owned Skype Technologies, Vonage and […]

Phishers slip through web loopholes. The growing sophistication of phishers has left the majority of Americans unable to tell the difference between legitimate and scam e-mail, a survey released indicated. Despite continued efforts of researchers, security providers and online businesses to discourage phishing schemes and shut down related Web sites, some criminals are still able […]

Microsoft plans to nearly double its work force in India over the next three to four years, investing $1.7 billion and adding 3,000 jobs in a vote of confidence in one of the world’s fastest-growing markets, Bill Gates told a forum of Indian business leaders. Microsoft has long viewed India, a country of 1 billion […]