Google is working on a major overhaul of its YouTube video site to organize its content around premium “channels” and spending as much as $100 million to commission original content.
Google Places just got more interesting. Now before visiting a store, you can view product availability on Google Place Pages according to a post on Google Merchant Blog. The new feature automatically brings local inventory on your Place Page before visiting your store. Google Place Page will now automatically include a new section, ‘Popular products [...]
ZDNet UK reports the Court of Milan has ruled that Google has to filter the auto-completions that Google Instant provides in Italy. The issue is that someone was searching for a particular name and Google offered search completions for the name with con man or fraud. The individual sued forcing..
San Francisco City Supervisors are meeting today to vote on whether companies like Twitter moving into the city’s blighted Tenderloin neighborhood will get a generous enough tax break to keep them from leaving the city. It’s an important vote for all of Twitter’s employees, as it will probably dictate whether they start commuting to Brisbane or not. And it’s an important vote for Zynga, Yelp and other large startups who are having similar conversations with the city.
Google, in a social-networking move aimed at Facebook, plans to allow people to reorder the way websites are ranked through its searches based on what they and their friends like or find useful.
A new version of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer to be released Tuesday will become the first major Web browser to include a do-not-track tool that helps consumers keep their online habits from being monitored.
While Apple has reportedly decided to forgo NFC-related hardware/software in iPhone 5 because of a lack of standards, Google is to begin testing NFC-based mobile payments at selected stores in New York and San Franciso according to an article in Bloomberg: The company will pay for installation of… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
Content discovery engine StumbleUpon , which most recently received 17 million in Series B funding, is unveiling a new ad platform today, StumbleUpon Paid Discovery . Whereas the old Stumble ad model was primarily targeted to getting traffic for publishers, StumbleUpon CEO Garrett Camp tells me that Paid Discovery is setting its sights on bigger brands, like movie studios promoting a movie or stuff like NFL teams promoting their sites. Paid Discovery ads (which can range in format from websites, videos to mobile sites etc) will show up in a Stumbler’s stream without them having to click on a banner or other kind of intermediary mechanism.
AT&T said it will begin to cap DSL data usage for its Internet customers and implement charges for anyone who exceeds the limit.
A plastic surgeon’s push to purge a 20-year-old article about a dispute between him and a patient from Google’s search results is part of a legal wrangle between Google and Spain’s privacy regulator that could have EU-wide significance.
Cars can’t get everywhere, so Google sends specially built Street View tricycles so that you can view, for example, botanical gardens and hikes. Today saw a vast new array of images from around the world.
As the company looks to boost revenue in 2011 in advance of an IPO , Skype is pursuing an aggressive enterprise strategy . Today, Skype’s VP of Enterprise, David Gurle, is announcing a strategic partnership with Citrix Online, in which web conferencing software GoToMeeting will be integrated into Skype’s enterprise offering, Skype For Business. Skype For Business is a paid desktop product that includes capabilities for multi-party video chat , screen sharing and conference calls
Amazon.com Inc., the largest online retailer, said it’s opening a store to sell software for the Android mobile-operating system, stepping up rivalry with Google Inc.
A fund run by J.P. Morgan Chase is in talks with Twitter to take a minority stake in the rapidly growing microblogging company.




