Microsoft to Acquire Musiwave
Don’t look now, but it seems Microsoft is off to something with its announcement of intention to buy Musiwave, a mobile music entertainment service company....
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Arnold Zafra writes daily on the announcements by Google, Ask.com, Yahoo & MSN along with how these announcements effect web publishers. He is currently building three niche blogs covering iPad News, Google Android Phones and E-Book Readers.
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Yahoo Advances Program on Open Source Computing, Launches M45
Yahoo’s take on open source is totally different from what Google previously launched. Instead of focusing on an opensocial movement focused on the alliance of...
AOL Acquires Semantic Search Q and A Service, Yedda
AOL Goes on Early Christmas Shopping, Buys Yedda For AOL, Christmas shopping starts as early as November. Exactly six days after acquiring Quigo, an advertising...
Google Adwords Modifies Site Targeting Feature
Google Adwords has tweaked its site targeting feature a bit to allow advertiser to run their campaigns not only on the main pages of individual...
Facebook Ads: Google AdWords Should Be Afraid
Adding to today’s announcement of MySpace SelfServe Ads and AOL’s acquisition of Quigo, Facebook just released the news about its much anticipated and overly hyped...
Adsense Rolls Out Simplified Ad Management Feature
Finally, the days of generating new Adsense and then getting inside blog/site’s code whenever you want to change something in your Adsense units, is over....
MySpace’s HyperTargeting Ad Platform Enters Second Phase
Sometime in July, MySpace rolled out a new sitewide advertising program called HyperTargeting by MySpace. From the words of Michael Barrett, Chief Revenue Officer for...
Yahoo’s Social Network for College Grads, Kickstart Goes Live
Yahoo’s social network for college graduates called Kickstart is going live today. What’s Kickstart? Here’s the official statement from the Yahoo Kickstart site: Yahoo! Kickstart...
Google and MySpace Officially Announce OpenSocial, How Open is OpenSocial?
The much talked about OpenSocial APIs which Google is spearheading is officially announced jointly by Google and MySpace. Touted as collaborative tool that would spark...
Hakia Adds Social Networking to Search Engine
Semantic search engine Hakia has added a social component to its meaning-based search engine called Meet Others. The idea behind Meet Others is to connect...
Can the Party of Six a.k.a OpenSocial Beat Facebook?
Facebook’s Zuckerberg must be laughing right now as he reads the latest buzz on the web about OpenSocial, a group of “other” social networks headed...
AOL Launches Indian Language Portal
AOL takes a giant step towards its expansion goal with the launch of a local language version of its web search portal in India. Coming...
Truveo Expands to Eight Major International Markets
Video search engine Truveo which was founded sometime in 2004 and was acquired by AOL in 2006, is expanding its operations with the launch of...
Microsoft adCenter Gets Some New Upgrades
Microsoft’s Pay-Per-Click advertising program, adCenter introduced three new features to aid advertisers better manage their ad placements on Microsoft’s search advertising program.
AdBrite Opens Up to Facebook Apps
For awhile I thought AdBrite had already folded up until I read from News.com that it is opening advertising opportunities for Facebook Apps developer and...
Microsoft’s Live Search Maps Out to Beat Google Maps?
Microsoft is really serious on gaining a good ground in the web search arena. New features after new features are being slowly carried out by...
Yahoo Launches Messenger Version 9.0
For those who have stopped using Yahoo Messenger for instant messaging purpose and have shifted to GTalk this post may not interest you. But for...
Another Round of Search Enhancement from Live Search
Maybe Microsoft Live Search ought to rename its search engine into “Smart Live Search”. After introducing auto-spell Correction and search stemming, Live Search is introducing...
Live Search Gets Smarter with AutoSpell Check and Stemming
Seems like there’s no stopping Microsoft Live Search from improving on its search features. After last week’s announcement on the final round of improvements on...
Google to Buy TV Data from NielsenMedia
Google and NielsenMedia are set to announce a multi-year agreement which will give Google access to NielsenMedia’s TV demographics data. Google will be using these...
StumbleUpon Enhances SearchReviews on Search Engines
StumbleUpon finally made its SearchReviews feature official with some enhancements to boot. Launched sometime ago in major search engines, SearchReviews displays StumbleUpon star icons on...
Google News Goes to Facebook
Before you see Adsense in Facebook application sometime soon, you might as well like to enjoy first Google News as a new Facebook application was...
Top Search Queries in Google Webmaster Tools
Google’s Webmaster Tools’ top search queries just got better with the expansion of its time coverage, top query percentage and search data upload via CSV...
Google Updates Web Analytics, Relaunches Urchin
Google announced three new features of its web analytics service, site search reporting, event tracking and an updated version of the almost forgotten Urchin software....
Final Round of New Features for Live Search
Microsoft releases the final updates of its Live Search service, for this period and also announces the availability of Live Search 411 service, a toll...
YouTube Implements Video Identification Tool
In response to clamor for a tighter policy on video piracy proliferating on its video portal, YouTube has launched its video identification tool. The video...
Blinkx Scores a Goal
Popular video search engine Blinkx seems to be on a roll. After signing a deal with meta search engine Ixquick last week, it now has...
Adsense Referral Ads Validation Ongoing
You might be noticing a decrease in your Adsense referral earnings lately, well that’s because Google Adsense has placed a restriction on referral earnings while...
Microsoft Live Launches Online Event Management Service
Microsoft Live adds an event management service to its suite of free web services. Though Live Events is not new on the web anymore, the...
Windows Live SkyDrive Soars Higher with New Features
Microsoft Windows online storage facility, Live SkyDrive (previously Live Drive) gets some useful improvements. Registered users of the Skydrive can now upload files of up...