Search News Desk

Awarepoint Corporation, a provider of ZigBee-based real-time location system (RTLS) solutions to the healthcare market, today announced that Edward J. Zander has joined the company's board of directors. Zander has spent more than 35 years in the technology sector. He has played a... (more)

"Users will continue to experience search as a vital part of their Yahoo! experiences and will enjoy increased innovation thanks to the scale and resources this deal provides," sais Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz, as Yahoo! and Microsoft today announced an agreement that the companies be... (more)

Search Engine Optimization bridges the gap between search engine optimization and web development with their search engine friendly web design & development service that not only engages the user but ensures high visibility and traffic to client sites. "At SEO Inc. we take a two... (more)

Covario, Inc., has announced the availability of the latest upgrade to its patent-pending Covario Organic Search Insight solution which includes Audit Score v2.0 -- a measure of the alignment of an advertiser's website with the methods used by search engines like Google, Yahoo, M... (more)

Search engine optimization and Internet marketing company Bruce Clay, Inc. has partnered with For Dummies Publications to produce the all-in-one desk reference guide for SEO. The "Search Engine Optimization All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies" by Bruce Clay and Susan Esparza i... (more)

Venture Capital Blog on Ulitzer Conductor, Inc, a pioneer of enterprise SEO measurement and optimization solutions, today announced $10 million in Series B funding, led by new investor Matrix Partners. FirstMark Capital, who led Conductor's Series A financing, also participated ... (more)

"There is a fairly compelling set of economics that underpin a search partnership," declared Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in an interview just published by BusinessWeek. He was referring to the fact that Microsoft is still interested in buying all or part of Yahoo. Of Yahoo CEO Ca... (more)

Lanner Electronics, a designer and ODM manufacturer of advanced platforms for network security and other LAN/WAN applications, has announced the release of its miniature fanless network application platform - the Lanner FW-7522. Specifications for the FW-7522 include an onboard In... (more)

uTest and AutomatedQA have announced that the two companies have formed a strategic partnership to offer a combined package of automated testing and community-based software testing services. The two companies will develop integrated features and services to enable uTest's commu... (more)

"Our apologies to any of you who were inconvenienced this morning, and to site owners whose pages were incorrectly labelled," wrote Google Search VP Marissa Mayer yesterday, in a blogged explanation of the unfortunate fact than most Google searches conducted between 6:30AM-7:25A... (more)

Small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the Asia-Pacific excluding the Japan region will spend $6.5 billion more in 2009 compared with the year before. Chinese, Korean, and Indian SMBs make up more than 50% of Asia Pacific spending, according to a latest study by New York-based Acc... (more)

Sony introduced the VAIO P-series notebook that has been leaking over the last couple weeks. The new ultra portable PC comes with a unique dimension slightly larger than an office letter envelope. The Sony VAIO P weighs less than 640 grams and sports 3G connectivity. The screen ... (more)

Bob Muglia, a 21-year veteran at Microsoft, was named president of Microsoft's Server and Tools Business (STB), a group he previously served as senior vice president. As head of the Server and Tools Business, Muglia, 49, is in charge of delivering on the vision of Dynamic IT, Mi... (more)

Verbatim Americas announced two new Quad Interface Desktop Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) with capacities of 500GB and 1TB. The pro audio/video-grade storage and backup solutions offer Mac and PC users universal connectivity with plug and play support for all four of the leading interfa... (more)

Green Plug has developed digital technology enabling real-time collaboration between electronic devices and their power sources. The company's green power components allow manufacturers to standardize on one universal power connector and eliminate environmental waste. Green Plug... (more)

CNET has reported a 24 percent increase in unique users year-over-year (CNET Internal Log Data, October 2007 vs. October 2008). The traffic increase comes two months after the launch of the CNET redesign, a complete evolution of the website that spanned everything from its logo, ... (more)

"We all agree that now is the right time to make the transition to a new CEO who can take the company to the next level," said Yahoo's Board of Directors in a statement today in which the BoD revealed that it has initiated a search for a new Chief Executive Officer for the compan... (more)

 Zvents, the local search engine and paid listings ad network, today announced that it has secured $24 million in funding. New strategic investors include Nokia Growth Partners, the growth capital arm of Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and the world’s leading mobile phone supplier; and AT&T (... (more)

Philipp Lenssen at the “Google Blogoscoped” blog broke the story on September 1, 2008 that Google is launching an open source browser called Google Chrome. Lennsen writes: “Today there was a comic book in my mail, sent by Google and drawn by no less than Scott McCloud, creator of... (more)

"Advertising on Google.com is contextual, requires no personally identifiable information, is not provided by a third-party, and does not collect any information in addition to the basic information collected to provide search results," asserted Google's Director of Public Policy... (more)