Seeking to expand its already well-honed ability to sell targeted Internet advertisements, online search leader Google Inc. said it has agreed to pay $3.1 billion in cash to acquire ad-management technology company DoubleClick Inc.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/13/2007
The boards of both companies have approved the takeover, which is expected to close by the end of the year.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/13/2007
Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the Internet, some university researchers with the federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and start over.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/13/2007
There are now 3.5 million AJAX developers worldwide, a 50 percent increase over the past year, based on results of a survey that will be released next week.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 04/12/2007
The latest version of Opera's Web browser lets visitors see mini versions of their nine favorite sites at a glance. Click on any thumbnail to load the full site.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/12/2007
Agence France-Presse, a global news agency based in Paris, has settled its lawsuit against Google Inc. and will allow the Internet search leader to post news and photos from AFP journalists.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/09/2007
A parliamentary commission approved a proposal Thursday allowing Turkey to block Web sites that are deemed insulting to the founder of modern Turkey, weeks after a Turkish court temporarily barred access to YouTube.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/05/2007
We still don't know all that much about the scope of the vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows Animated Cursor handling implementation, but -- based on Redmond's responsiveness thus far -- it seems like a doozy.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 04/02/2007
Google's replacement of post-Hurricane Katrina satellite imagery on its map portal with images of the region before the storm does a "great injustice" to the storm's victims, a congressional subcommittee said.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/02/2007
Hackers stepped up attacks Friday on computers running some versions of Windows, a day after Microsoft disclosed a hole related to the mouse cursor.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/02/2007
Presiding over a company with a market value of $143 billion apparently gives Silicon Valley's most famous billionaires a good sense of humor -- and a case of corporate potty mouth.
- By The Associated Press
- 04/02/2007
The ink hasn't dried on good, old-fashioned journalism.
Deal with 1&1 offers Web hosters low-cost open source alternative.
Microsoft this week announced the launch of ZenZui, an independent company partially funded by Microsoft created to market ZenZui's Zooming User Interface, which was patented by Microsoft and was first developed in the Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft Research lab.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/29/2007
A committee of the Internet's key oversight agency agreed Wednesday to form a new working group that would examine how to offer more privacy to small businesses and people with individual Web sites.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/29/2007
In another reminder of technology's quantum leaps, Yahoo Inc.'s free e-mail service will provide unlimited storage space to its nearly 250 million users worldwide -- a concept that seemed unfathomable just a few years ago.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/29/2007
Microsoft's Live Labs applied research group announced Wednesday it is making a limited number of previews available for a new mobile browser technology it has intriguingly dubbed "Deepfish."
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/29/2007
Microsoft announced Monday it has bought out devBiz Business Solutions, a company that specializes in software development tools and components for professional .NET developers.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 03/27/2007
The key oversight agency for Internet addresses is reviewing the way it oversees businesses that sell domain names in the wake of financial and operational problems that left customers of one company nameless.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/27/2007
A new version of Adobe Systems Inc.'s Creative Suite software will go on sale next month, a launch that executives have billed as the most significant in the company's 25-year history.
- By The Associated Press
- 03/27/2007