If there’s any indication that all seems to be well in the Microsoft camp after the failed Yahoo acquisition deal, it’s when the company continues with its usual habit of buying online companies and amassing a wealth of properties. As Microsoft resumes its old habit, the company is reported to be eyeing Greenfield Online, which [...]

Google CEO Eric Schmidt confirmed yesterday that despite pressure from the US Justice Department, the Google Yahoo advertising partnership will proceed with its scheduled launch of early October. “We are going to move forward,” Schmidt said Thursday (as quoted by the Seattle Times). “We are in the process of talking to the government. They’ve not [...]

Google’s Android Developer Challenge is now completed and 10 development teams have won awards of $275,000 for their cutting edge and unique applications for use on the Android mobile platform. 10 other teams also won awards of $100,000. All teams presented overviews of their Android apps, and the technology and coding which was used to [...]

According to ComScore, MySpace (or Fox Interactive Media) has surpassed Yahoo in terms of displaying advertisements, serving 56.8 billion ads 15.2% of the display ads on the Internet, while Yahoo weighed in at 53.1 billion display ads with a 14.2% share. This is however, a bit of a misleading statistic. Sure it is amazing that [...]

Google Earth is being credited for a scientific discovery by two German scientists which shows that cows naturally point north, in the same way a compass would, when resting or grazing. The zoologists used Google Earth to study the patterns of over 300 herds of cattle, totally 8,510 cows. Moooo! From VNUnet : Of the [...]

If the series of tests that Google engineers are doing on their search portal is any indication of what may soon become of the Google Search, then we might be looking at Social-powered Google search engine in the near future. According to Ben Gomes in a post at the Official Google Blog, they are conducting [...]