Microsoft, stirring to life in China after years of relative quiet, expects to chalk up sales growth of more than 30 percent in China this fiscal year and hopes to launch its Xbox 360 game console there. Microsoft’s recent advances in the market also come as the deals by the world’s top software company come […]

Google Inc.’s wrath is short lived, it turns out. Google Inc.’s boycott of News.com appears to have ended quietly, less than three months after company executives told the technology news site that they would stop speaking with its reporters for a year. Search engine was irked over story on chief executive

Google Inc. has announced that it is setting up a branch in Israel as part of the expansion of its international activities. To handle its operation, Google appointed Meir Brand as Israel country manager and the company’s first employee in Israel. He previously worked for AOL and Microsoft. Google appointed Meir Brand as the director […]

AdCenter targets pitches based on demographics; due in U.S. this fall. MSN has announced the official launch of AdCenter in France and Singapore. AdCenter powers a paid-search service from MSN that provides advanced audience intelligence and targeting capabilities to help advertisers improve their return on investment when it comes to paid-search advertising. The official launch […]

Mediation begins in music copyright trial involving China’s largest search engine. Four music giants and their local subsidiaries have entered mediation with Baidu.com, China’s largest Internet search engine over the recording companies’ claims of copyright infringement. The companies including Universal, Warner, EMI and Sony BMG are suing the Nasdaq-listed Baidu.com whose MP3 search technology provide […]

Yahoo! has become the latest search engine to join the desktop search party. A beta version of the Yahoo! Desktop Search is now available at: http://desktop.yahoo.com. The updated release includes a contextual word search function called Live-Words, which allows users to use selected text in applications like Microsoft Word as a search query. By clicking […]

In its first foray into the U.S., Japanese portal Rakuten – which operates top-ranked sites for online shopping, travel, golf reservations, community, and greeting cards – is slated to acquire affiliate marketing firm LinkShare for $425 million in cash. The company also provides shopping over cellular phones, auctions, financial services, broadband entertainment and business-to-business services. […]

Google’s GMail service has been opened up to the public after being invitation-only since its inception. The only catch is that you must have a cell phone. Considering that everyone and a grandma has a cell phone these days, that shouldn’t be too much of a problem: The mobile phone requirement was designed to prevent […]

Surfing the net through the wired networks is all set to change with wireless fidelity or Wi-Fi services dominating the world in a big way. Wi-Fi enables a person with wireless gadgets like laptops and Personal Digital Assistants ‘PDAs’ to connect to the Internet when in proximity of an access point. The Wi-Fi craze is […]

GeoTrust Inc. launched a search engine powered by Ask Jeeves Inc. that verifies whether Web sites listed in results are legitimate or are more likely to be those of phishers looking to steal personal information. In phishing scams, victims usually receive e-mails purporting to be from legitimate companies, like eBay, that provide a link for […]