In the last few weeks, several of Yahoo!’s top executives have handed in their papers and are moving on to other jobs.
Executive Vice President of Search and Advertising Technology, Qi Lu, is quitting and has plans to go to China.
Senior Vice President of Search, Vish Makhijani, is likely to join Yandex, Russia’s leading search engine […]

The results of a worldwide survey, conducted by comScore, are out, and they show that for the first time ever, Facebook has raced ahead of MySpace, in the number of unique visitors both sites had in the month of May.
It actually began in April, when the two were running neck and neck, with Facebook having […]

The Seattle Post Intelligencer reported earlier this week that over the last one year, Microsoft has added about 11,200 employees to its payroll. Most of these have been the result of the several takeovers they have conducted in the past year or so, in their effort to improve their position in the search market.
aQuantive, Fast […]

Last week Google launched a new platform called ‘Trends For Websites’. This marks their entry into the field of competitive research.
Comparisons are bound to be made with Alexa, comScore, Quantacast and others, who are already into that field, but so far have not been very accurate with their analysis.
However Google’s results are expected to be […]

Only last month Microsoft Live Search had announced a ‘cash back’ programme for its customers. They have now tied up with eBay to offer this facility to their customers.
All products having a ‘Buy it Now’ price on eBay, ranging from jewelry to electronics, will be eligible for a certain amount of refund, thus helping clients […]

A new craze has caught on among teenagers in U.K. Google Earth, which has high-quality satellite images of most metropolitan areas, is being misused by over-smart teens, to locate houses that have swimming pools and gatecrash to throw pool parties.
Once they have zeroed in on an appropriate location, they organise a pool party at that […]

Online social network site Facebook.com
has launched a version targeting mainland Chinese Web surfers
to compete with local and overseas rivals in the world’s
largest Internet market.

The European Union’s consumer chief
will propose new rules to make it easier and safer for the
bloc’s 490 million consumers to shop online in any corner of
the 27-nation EU.

When Ian Usher’s partner of 12 years
left him broken-hearted, he decided the best way to move
forward was to auction his whole life, in one job lot.

Microsoft’s CEO said the company will
not seek to make a spate of other Internet acquisitions in the
wake of its failed bid for Yahoo, the Financial Times reported
on Friday.