Yahoo introduces new multimedia search service called Yammy Yahoo! Korea yesterday launched its multimedia search service "Yammy," vowing to recapture a leading position in the local search engine competition. Yammy is the only Korean portal that can search all video files on the World Wide Web, said Seong Nak-yang, chief operating officer of Yahoo! Korea, […]

Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are preparing to link together their free instant messaging services as they take on entrenched messaging leader AOL and market newcomer Google Inc., a source close to the companies said on condition of anonymity. The deal, the first major alliance between two of the Web’s main providers of instant messaging, […]

After revolutionizing the way people listen to music with the popular iPod, Apple Computer Inc. is trying to do the same with video. Apple Computer Inc. introduced an iPod capable of playing videos on Wednesday, evolving the portable music player of choice into a multimedia platform for everything from TV shows to music videos. Videos […]

Taiwan protest’s against Google’s description of Taiwan as a province of China Google, the most-used Internet search engine, said its description of Taiwan as a province of China is consistent with international naming conventions such as those followed by the United Nations. Google faces protests from Taiwan’s government because of the description, which is used […]

Comcast, Google Said to be in talks with Time Warner about Acquiring Stakes in AOL Portal Web search engine Google and cable Company Comcast were in discussions to buy a stake in Time Warner’s America Online AOL, two sources said, in a deal reportedly worth as much as $5bn. An investment would set the stage […]

Google Inc. has released in beta a newsreader for staying up-to-date on Web site content. Google Reader enables consumers to search for content on Web sites and then subscribe to RSS and other news feeds. RSS is a standard for distributing content over the Web to newsreaders, which gather and organize content. Reader also enables […]

Blogs vie with News for Eyeballs Bloggers are gaining a higher profile alongside traditional news sources with Yahoo including blogs in its expanding news search system. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company, Yahoo! News searches are now delivering blogs as well as web pages in their search results – – an experiment that figures to test the […]

Google Inc. has quietly patched a potentially dangerous security flaw in two of its business-facing services after a private security research outfit warned that malicious hackers could exploit the bug to hijack sensitive user information. The vulnerability was flagged—and fixed—in the Google AdWords and Google Services sub-domains. Because both sites use data from the Google […]

The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company, which operates the world’s most visited Web site, plans to begin testing the new service — introduced a beta version of its podcast search tool further demonstrating the growing demand for the radio show style audio clips designed for consumption on computers and wireless devices. Dubbed as Yahoo Podcasts, the service […]

Online search engine leader Google Inc. has hired a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. to influence the nation’s laws governing the Internet, telecommunications and copyrights. The Mountain View-based company announced its political push in a posting on its Web log, or (blog.) Google’s presence in the nation’s capital represents another step in the 7-year-old company’s evolution […]