It has been rumoured that AOL is going to sell some of its peripheral properties. As part of this effort, it is planning to sell different units including ICQ instant-messaging unit and MapQuest online map service.
 
According to the owner Time Warner, this step has been taken to offload ...

Time Warner has disclosed that it is spinning off its internet business AOL next month. The AOL may be made a separate company on December 9.
 
The company has also declared a dividend on its AOL, which will pave the way for the creation of a new company. They have also declared AOL common ...

Google is set to acquire the internet telephony company Gizmo5, which is to be merged later to improve Google Voice. This is the second quick acquisition after AdMob this year.
 
However, Google has not disclosed the details of the acquisition.
 
Earlier, AdMob was acquired with a ...

Internet search giant Google Inc has declared that it has entered into an agreement with mobile display ad technology provider AdMob which will enable Google to acquire the latter. The deal is worth $750 million in stock.
 
This acquisition will strengthen the expertise and technology of ...

Popular social networking site, Facebook has restructured its news feeds with the design featuring a toggle view between a main view and a live feed. The main view featured the top stories from the friends based on their habits whereas the ‘live feed’ gave real-time updates from the ...

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has quit the board of Yahoo!, and has cited that the Internet search giant does not require an “activist" director like him.
 
"I don't believe that it is necessary at this time to have an activist on the board of Yahoo! and currently, my ...

Online retailer Amazon.com has reported a 69% surge in third quarter earnings as sales surged across all product lines and its Kindle electronic book reader was a hit with customers.
 
The Seattle-based pioneer of web-retailing Thursday said it earned $199 million in the third quarter ...

According to sources, Facebook will soon allow its users for purchasing virtual products including music from its Website. This step has been adopted by Facebbok to improve its revenues.
 
Google has also plans for allow its users to sample and purchase songs from its search results page ...

Internet giant Yahoo Inc has registered a growth in net profit for its third quarter of the 2009-10 fiscal despite the 12% dip in the net revenue registered during the corresponding period last fiscal.
 
The firm, which had reported a growth in its earning on Tuesday, mentioned that it was ...

Google Inc, the Internet search giant, which has about 2 million online office software customers, will kick of its advertising campaign on Monday for attracting with its arch-rivals, Microsoft Corp and IBM.
 
Google said there are now 20 million active users of Google Apps.
 
The ...

Online search giant Google says the worst of the recession is over as it reported quarterly profit and sales that rose from year-earlier results and easily topped Wall Street's forecasts.
 
"Google had a strong quarter-we saw 7 percent year-over-year revenue growth despite the tough ...

Web search leader Google saw profits rise 27% in the third quarter to $1.64 billion, the company said ON Thursday.
 
Revenue rose 7.3% to $5.94 billion.
 
Google's results gave further evidence that the worst of the recession may be over, coming just days after another tech ...

E-commerce company mjunction Services on Tuesday launched a shopping portal hoping to capture 30% of market share in online retail trading.
 
"Though the country's e-commerce business is still very small compared to those in the US and the UK, it is growing at a rate of 40 percent ...

Amazon is coming with its new brand of consumer electronics, 'AmazonBasics'.  The online merchant has already a pool of household brands like Pinzon (kitchen tools), Pike Street (bath products) and Denali (power tolls).
 
Previously, AmazonBasics had lesser products when compared to ...

The US Department of Justice will be probing into the advertising and search alliance that has been endorsed between Microsoft and Yahoo.
 
Yahoo and Microsoft had announced their alliance in late July for fighting against Internet’s No. 1 search engine, Google.
 
According to ...

Google is developing a micropayment system which will provide the newspapers to charge the people who use the online content. This was disclosed by Google in a proposal to Newspaper Association of America.
 
According to the proposal, that had come online on Thursday, has revealed that ...

YouTube, which is planning to set up its movie rental service, is indulging in talks with the Hollywood studios. This proposal has been put forward by the company to increase the v, which in turn will allow Google to accumulate more profits from this website.
 
YouTube executives are ...

Facebook is going to acquire a Web service called FriendFeed. This service will allow users to view what their friends are doing on all sorts of social media sites, including Facebook's rivals.
 
Bret Taylor, co-founder of FriendFeed said in an interview that the two services will eventually ...

General Motors Co and eBay Inc will be launching a test program in California which will provide the consumers an opportunity to negotiate with dealers and buy new vehicles online.
 
The car shopping website, gm.ebay.com, will put an end to the traditional car sales in the United States. ...

“Facebook” is becoming hot favourite among the youth and it is showing rapid growth.
 
The Social networking website “Facebook” has become the fourth most trafficked website in the world.
 
“In June this year, Facebook attracted a total of 340 million ...

The Twitter social-networking craze has taken hold in Brazil, where the number of users is growing faster than in the US, Britain, Spain, Japan and other developed countries.
Brazilian politicians, athletes and celebrities of all kinds have succumbed to "Twittermania," a phenomenon that ...

According to Mozilla, its browser software, Firefox, has been downloaded by the Internet users for more than one billion times.
 
The browser is the strongest current rival to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which once owned 90% of the browser market but currently Firefox is leading to an ...

The software giant Microsoft and the very popular search engine, Yahoo, have reached a 10-year deal in which they hope to tackle the online dominance of Google.
 
According to the deal Microsoft's new search engine will be used on the Yahoo sites. Yahoo will also handle some advertising ...

For the first time in Facebook, a retailer has set up his shop. 1-800-Flowers.com has plans to open a retail store to let people shop for its products directly through Facebook.
 
The Carle Place, N.Y.-based Company had been using a 1-800 number as its name. The company is online since 1991 ...

Microsoft and Yahoo will announce a search and advertising partnership on Wednesday, capping months of negotiations aimed at challenging the Internet dominance of Google.
 
The paper's blog AllThingsD said that under the terms of the deal, Yahoo will use Microsoft's new search engine on its ...

Hyderabad-based 160by2.com, one of the leading free SMS service providers in the country, has launched a service for its customers to send free text messages to and from the Middle East.
 
"The first-of-its-kind service is open to all internet users in India and enables free SMS ...

PayPal, which is a company of eBay, announced on Friday that it plans to open its online payment platform to third-party developers. Till now, PayPal could be used to pay for deals made by its members on eBay.
 
In a statement, PayPal said its newly launched application programming ...

It's the ultimate showdown in the technology world, the clash of giants that has been eagerly awaited for years. Web giant Google is taking its clearest aim yet at Microsoft with its plan to produce its own operating system that would optimise the way computers work on the Internet.
 
The ...

Want to know about upcoming trade events and conferences being organized across the world? Trade Chakra is one such portal that gives latest information on forthcoming international trade shows. The site offers information on trade shows and conferences being organized in major cities such as ...

The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has announced new guidelines to ensure faster Internet. Under the new guidelines of TRAI, the Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecom operators are allowed to offer 50 users per unit of Internet bandwidth in case of home users and 30 ...