Yahoo and BellSouth are joining forces to sell high-speed Internet access, the latest step in a mating dance that has now united the owner of the Web’s most popular destination with the three largest US regional phone companies. Like the other regional Bells with similar deals, BellSouth wants to tap into Yahoo’s vast content to […]

Further alienate book publishers: Google has begun operating local-language sites in eight European countries for its Google Print program, its closely watched effort to make all of the world’s books searchable online, expanding into territories where it has drawn fierce criticism. The Google Print sites – for France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium […]

Mainland media control over Chinese-language content took a blow with state press claiming rage after Mountain View, Calif.-based Internet giant Google removed referrals to Taiwan as a province. Google made the changes under pressure of extremists in Taiwan’s pan-Green camp a pro-independence alliance between the ruling Democratic Progressive Party and the hard-line Taiwan Solidarity Union […]

The shopping search engine Become is hoping to replicate Yahoo’s success in Japan. Yes, the China gold rush is on, but it would not include the young Mountain View shopping search engine Become.com. Not yet, anyway. The U.S. shopping search engine Become.com said it’s expanding into Japan, Asia’s largest shopping market, though a partnership with […]

Internet phone-calling phenomenon Skype, which was bought by online auction company eBay Inc. for almost $4 billion lately, said it sees computer giant Microsoft as one of its biggest potential rivals. The biggest threat to Skype comes from Internet companies like Yahoo, AOL, and Microsoft’s MSN, said the CEO of the VoIP provider, noting it […]

President says free mapping program could help terrorists Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam has joined the list of government officials charging that the geographic details provided by Google Earth’s satellite imaging program pose a security risk. At a meeting of top police officials in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, Kalam said he worried that […]

A U.S. judge ordered a tentative stay in Web search company Google Inc.’s lawsuit against Microsoft Corp., dealing a blow to Google’s fight over the hiring of a former Microsoft official. But Judge Ronald Whyte of the U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose declined to say what his final ruling would be […]

Yahoo Inc. is considering buying a stake in America Online Inc., joining other Internet powerhouses interested in the company’s Web portal. However, unlike its smaller rival, antitrust regulators would likely review such a deal more carefully, as it would combine the two largest properties on the Web today. The discussions were described as preliminary and […]

Microsoft Settles with RealNetworks, Promises to Promote Its Online Music After years of cross-town feuding that drove a wedge into Seattle’s technology community, Microsoft and RealNetworks declared a truce to help them compete against Apple and Google and solidify the city’s future as a center for digital media. Microsoft agreed to pay $761 million to […]

Internet search engine behemoth Google has declared war on Microsoft, announcing plans to launch free spreadsheet and word-processing software online. Joining forces with US-based technology giant Sun Microsystems to allow web users to access Sun’s OpenOffice from any personal computer. Sun Microsystems Australia spokesman Paul O’Connor said the deal was "huge". Worldwide, Google gets 80 […]