Last night Yahoo, the online search, content and community giant, posted first quarter reports that were astonishing. According to the Yahoo performance reports, Yahoo earned $101 million, or 14 cents a share, compared with $47 million, or 8 cents, a year ago. The driving force behind such a strong financial showing by Yahoo was search [...]

Ask Jeeves introduced “Famous People Search” on Ask.com as a continuation of the company’s mission to provide its users with direct access to frequently searched information that goes beyond the ten blue links approach to delivery. According to Ask.com, famous people are one of the most frequently searched for topics on the Web and Ask.com’s [...]

Yahoo shares soared 14% Thursday after the company reported quarterly results that blew past analysts’ estimates and Yahoo also announced a stock split. A resurgence in online advertising and continued growth in paid subscriptions ignited the results, which were reported after the market closed. The Internet media company earned $101 million, or 14 cents a [...]

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have started an informal inquiry into recent trading activity in the stock of Internet search engine Mamma.com Inc., the company said Tuesday. According to the Associated Press, Mamma.com’s stock price doubled in early March following the release of strong fourth-quarter results. Trading activity has remained brisk since then. Mamma.com [...]

Google’s GMail has hit another obstacle, and this one has nothing to do with online privacy. It seems that another company, The Market Age, has already trademarked a product named GMail. Ruesters reports that London-based The Market Age said it had at its peak a year ago 1,000 customers representing 300 banks signed up for [...]

Just before the close of business on Wednesday, Google announced that it will be launching Gmail, its new free e-mail service set to offer 1000 megabytes of free space to its users. This announcement comes after a flurry of changes at Google, all of which are geared to securing their place as the dominant search [...]