Google is considering setting up its own venture capital investment arm, the Wall Street Journal said, quoting several people briefed on the discussions related to the matter.
David Drummond, Google’s senior vice president of corporate development, would lead the VC investment business.
Google has hired William Maris, a former Web hosting entrepreneur, to help set up the [...]
SHANGHAI, CHINA: Google has launched a free music search service in China that will give users access to free downloads of licenced songs, while capturing advertising revenue for music providers in a market already infamous with piracy.
The service poses a challenge to Baidu.com, the #1 search engine in China, along with other Chinese search engines, [...]
Google and Yahoo released excerpts of the pact covering their search advertising partnership that keeps secret financial terms and the extent of other ties between the two.
Under the deal, Google would supply Yahoo with advertising services (ads from adWords Clients) to run alongside Yahoo’s Web search. Yahoo runs the Web’s second most popular search service, [...]
Google Inc. has signed a letter of intent with Kevin Rose to purchase the social news site Digg.com for around $200 million, tech blog TechCrunch reported.
In contrast to Google News, where the stories are selected by computer algorithm, Digg’s news stories are submitted by users and ranked according to user approval ratings. It is known [...]
Gmail now has account activity shown on the footer to let you know if you’re still logged on elsewhere and also gives you a chance to disconnect remotely.
Clicking on details brings a window that shows the recent activity associated with the logged in account like the Access type, IP address used to login etc.. Also, [...]
Yahoo and Google, the world’s two biggest search engines, had announced a two-week experiment which is to share advertising space.
During the pilot, Google will be able to place ads alongside 3% of results of Searches on Yahoo’s website.
MS criticized Yahoo’s advertising trial with Google, saying any such deal would not be in the consumers’ interests.
“Any [...]
