AOL's CEO Explains Reasons Behind Google Deal

The Discovery Channel has snapped up web video start-up Revision3. While Discovery didn't reveal the price it paid, whispers on the grapevine indicate it was around $30 million. The deal is subject to the usual conditions, but...

Rumour has it that AOL and Yahoo, two technology companies who not so many years ago had become almost synonymous with the internet itself, are looking to merge (although Yahoo could potentially choose to acquire AOL using its...

Google's youtube continues to dominate ComScore's list of top video content sites, ranking first in both total number of visits and the average length of stay. According to the report released by digital market research firm...

Former Google employees or 'Xooglers' as they call themselves, can now be found running start-ups or venture capital firms across Silicon Valley. A new Silicon Valley trend has emerged which sees ex-Googlers using the skills they...

Interval Licensing, the patent arm of Interval Research, has filed a revised patent infringement lawsuit against Google, Facebook, Apple and other tech giants. Interval Licensing's earlier attempt to get an injunction against...

A patent infringement lawsuit, filed by a company linked to former Microsoft executive Paul Allen against a host of technology giants, has been dismissed by a US district court judge. According to Reuters, the court found that...

A patent holding firm associated with Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has sued eleven major US corporations including Google, Apple and Facebook, for violating patents related to e-commerce. The company in question, Interval...

A recent report published by Nielsen Online revealed that the average internet user in UK spent more than 22 hours surfing the web or using internet-related applications last month, showing a notable 34 percent rise from the...

Google is facing an attempt to file a class action lawsuit over its US policy of allowing companies to use trade marks they don't own to trigger their internet adverts. If it gathers enough participants, the suit could be costly...

Online retailer Amazon said that it will not allow Webwise, the behavioural advertising solution devised by BT and Phorm, to scan through its product pages to deliver targeted ads. In an email sent to a customer who questioned...

Google's rumours of an imminent acquisition of micro-blogging website Twitter has sparked a flood of responses not only in the blogosphere but also in the mailboxes of Twitter's top execs. Biz Stone, one of the co-fouders of...

Rumours that Google might be purchasing Twitter soonish sent virtual stocks of the micro-blogging website significantly up, with some commentators saying that it might well be the best thing to happen to Google and Twitter. The...

Twitter is on the verge of introducing some significant changes to the search functionality on its homepage to encourage its users to search more and hopefully, bring in some advertising revenues in the future. Some users may...

The Open Rights Group has sent a letter to some of the biggest tech companies in the world, asking them to reject the controversial behavioural advertising solution, Phorm/Webwise. In an open letter sent to the chief privacy...

Google's global privacy chief told OUT-LAW last year that he does not see a need for a link on the search engine's homepage. Today a spokesman for the company maintained that the company's privacy policy is easy to find.The...