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The Yahoo Application Platform (or Y!AP, if you shorten it and embrace the company's use of exclamation points) grew significantly more appealing today. A deal between Yah...

Hitwise Predicts Move Into Gaming For Google

Google's never been a predictable sort of company. Its focus on green energy, support for the Klingon language, and decision to set up beehives on corporate property are j...

Report: Tough Review Of Google-ITA Deal Likely

Five days ago, Google and ITA Software announced that they'd reached a "definitive agreement" covering an acquisition. Only - if you hadn't already guessed - it...

Yahoo Loses VP Of Engineering To Skype

Considering that laws prevent kids from working much, and that many people try to retire by age 65, it's a big deal when a person spends 10 years with a company. Unfortuna...

Google Sets Forum-Like Goals For Wave

Google Wave may soon make some significant strides towards winning over people who don't see the need for a new form of communication. This week, Google semi-officially en...

MySpace In Ad Talks With Google, Yahoo And Microsoft

News Corp is reportedly in talks with Google, Microsoft and Yahoo about striking a search advertising deal for its struggling social network MySpace. Currently M...

Google UK Chief Speaks Of Focus On Mobile, Social

In nine days' time, Google will report its second quarter financial results, and no matter how well the search giant's done, at least a few critics are sure to argue that it nee...

eBay Ends AdCommerce PPC Ads on eBay.com and eBay.ca

Starting on August 4th, eBay will be retiring its AdCommerce placements on eBay.com and eBay.ca. It will continue to offer the service in Europe and Australia. T...

5 Tips for Marketing Through Content

Gather.com is a site that started as a social networking site, but is now a demand-driven media company, attracting 7 million unique visitor...

Yahoo Gives Search Suggestions in “Near Real-Time”

Yahoo has enhanced its Yahoo Search Assist tool (the search suggestions that come up when you start typing a query), to provide what Yahoo calls "near real-time" sugge...

How People Value Data

The other day a person contacted me about wanting to help me with ad retargeting on one of my sites, but in order to do so they would have had to have track...

Google Introduces Real-Time Blogger Stats

Traffic mongers and general-purpose stats hounds now have another compelling reason to use Blogger: last night, a statistics tool called Blogger Stats was introduced, and believ...

Google Announces $700 Million Acquisition of ITA Software

Google announced that it has signed an acquisition agreement with ITA Software. Reports of talks surrounding such an acquisition were revealed in April, but...

Google Wants Your Grandma to Use Video Chat in Gmail

Google has posted a video and an accompanying, printable guide for grandmothers to understand how to use Gmail's video chat feature. Google wants you to be able...

Microsoft: Ad Rank on Yahoo and Bing Will Be the Same

Microsoft has posted some FAQ's and their respective answers in an update on its...