Chairman on a weeklong tour of firm’s operations all over Asia Intel Corp. will invest more than $1 billion in India, signaling the importance of this emerging technology power as a source of revenue and engineering talent, Chairman Craig Barrett said during his weeklong tour of the country. This investment demonstrates Intel’s long-term commitment and […]

A skirmish with Google may seem similar to battles Microsoft fought against the likes of Netscape or Novell, but it is not the same at all. Are Office Live and Windows Live response to Google? Microsoft’s announcement of these new online services was interesting, and there are implications for I.T. folks. The speculation about these […]

Skype, the international Web calling phenomenon acquired by eBay, said that it is adding high-resolution picture phone features to its free telephone replacement service. Version 2.0 of the Skype software at http://www.skype.com aims to make it easier for customers to sign up and use its phone-over-Internet services, which are free on computers and offer low […]

Microsoft Corp. plans to invest $1.7 billion in India over a period of four years to deepen its presence in the fast-growing software powerhouse, Chairman Bill Gates announced during his visit. Gates, on a four-day trip to India in his fourth visit to the country, also said Microsoft would focus on research aimed at spreading […]

Google’s search for revenue beyond its popular pay-per-click advertising system has everyone from publishers to phone companies unnerved by the seemingly endless scope of the web leader’s ambitions. Seeking to diversify its revenue base, Google has begun offering advertisers a set of free marketing analysis tools to help customers boost how much they spend on […]

Blinkx and the Times Online, the Web site of British newspapers The Times and The Sunday Times, have launched a co-branded toolbar called Times Online Smart Search. Blinkx and The Times both feel that the new desktop search and news offering will revolutionize the way Times readers get their daily news. The partnership should work […]

Chinese Internet firm Alibaba.com has vowed to defeat US giant Google in the battle to become the dominant search engine for the potentially lucrative Chinese market. Alibaba’s chief executive Jack Ma wants to be Number One in China. E-Bay has already bitten the dust as the dominant e-commerce site in China, now his horizons are […]

Search for CEO for Expanded Operations Underway Google, the world’s No.1 Internet search engine company is preparing to expand its business in Korea, hiring a regional chief for its new affiliate company which is expected to open in Seoul within a few months. The company is also hiring product managers, marketing managers and finance managers […]

Google confirmed that it has quietly fixed a security flaw in its Gmail service that could have allowed attackers to gain complete control of other users’ accounts. Security researchers in Spain exposed a flaw in the way Google authenticates its users, allowing the breach in the system that counts more than 5 million users. Last […]