Here are a few facts about Telefonica: it's a huge telecommunications company. It's based in Spain. And it's a good friend of Yahoo's, considering that Telefonica ha...
FTC Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour will leave the agency next month, but that's almost surely not soon enough for Google. Today, Harbour criticized Eric Schmidt and the...
Yahoo said today it is acquiring social sports site Citizen Sports in an effort to strengthen its strategy of aggregating and distributing social content online. Terms of the ac...
Australians who study computer science now have an added incentive to accomplish impressive things. Today, it was announced that a certain search company will give away $1...
It's common knowledge in the U.S. search industry that Google has a market share of about 65 percent. Lots of people know (or at least know how to check) the search giant'...
Although the "thud" wasn't verified until this afternoon, it seems that an online giant fell a couple of days ago. According to new data from Hitwise, Facebook m...
Facebook's search suggestions are about to get significantly better. Rather than just suggest the names of people, events, groups, and Pages a person's already connected w...
Investors and online advertising experts may want to consider for a moment what, exactly, has contributed to Google's stupendous financial success (current market cap: $180 bill...
The clash between Google and the Chinese government appears to be coming to a head. Various sources have reported that Google ignored a cut-off date to reregister as an In...
Twitter should soon become more ubiquitous across the Web. Today, the company's cofounders announced something called @anywhere that should help integrate the Twitter expe...
Joanne Bradford started at Yahoo about a year and a half ago, assuming the title "Senior Vice President, U.S. Revenue and Market Development." Now, a fresh repor...
We're here at SXSW Interactive waiting for the keynote with Twitter CEO Evan Williams who will discuss "The Next Generation of Social Media." There has been...
In the social media world, it is so important to try to do things that haven't been done before. Why? Well, since social media is so new and the applications of it have not even...
The odds of Google keeping its Chinese search operation running are starting to seem quite small. The Chinese government has started advising Google's partners to prepare...
Here at SXSW, we attended the session "CrowdControl: Changing the Face of Media or Hype?" At the end, one of the speakers asked the crowd, which they thought it was. A...