Google posts their quarterly earnings
US based search engine giant Google has come out with their latest quarterly earning report.
The company has managed to beat Wall Street forecasts. Google benefited from strong advertising sales on its self-branded websites.
Google stated that their fourth-quarter net income was around $382 million. This is down from $1.21 billion [...]

Google in USA: 63.5 percent market share
ComScore has released their latest statistic report which shows that Google has made even more advances in terms of market share in the US search engine market.
The company has now improved their share by 0.4 percentage points to 63.5 percent in November.
Yahoo lost 0.1 percent to 20.4 percent stake.
Microsoft [...]

Google now has a 63 percent search market share in USA
Google continues to improve its position as the dominating search engine company in the US market.
The company now serves 63 percent of all searches in the US market.
Yahoo is as usual on the second spot with a 19.6% market share.
Microsoft is third with 8.3 [...]

Yahoo testing their new homepage
Internet media giant Yahoo has started testing a new layout of their Yahoo.com portal.
Yahoo.com continues to remain one of the most visited websites on the internet.
The new user interface features more customization along with better connectivity to their other services.
The new Yahoo.com comes loaded with a dashboard on the left [...]

AOL getting rid of Xdrive, AOL Pictures and Bluestring
AOL seems to be slimming down their operations by closing down or selling some of their non popular web services.
An inside source revealed that the company would get rid of services including Xdrive, AOL Pictures and Bluestring.
AIM World and MyMobile would also be discarded as they failed [...]

SnagFilms makes available free documentaries for download
AOL powered SnagFilms has announced that they would now make available freely downloadable documentaries on the web.
Company chairman Ted Leonsis spoke about their plans: “Through SnagFilms, everyone on the Web can be a theater owner and a film distributor if they just donate their pixels and enable these incredible [...]

AOL launches WalletPop and Pixcetera sites
AOL continues to expand their network of specialized sites to generate new avenues for advertising revenues.
These two new outlets are: WalletPop and Pixcetera.
WalletPop and Pixcetera are hosted independent of AOL network and are targeted at specific online audiences.
WalletPop is designed to provide alerts on the latest deals and moneysaving tips. [...]

AT&T and AOL latest to block access to child porn newsgroups
AT&T and AOL have joined the ISPs in the US market who are blocking access to child porn newsgroups.
The initiative was started by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo.
However, the blockage is not selective as they are blocking access to all newsgroups with addresses starting [...]

AOL announces video deal with Scripps Networks
US based internet Media Company AOL has announced that they have signed on a content distribution deal with Scripps Networks.
As part of this deal, AOL would now distribute media content from Scripps Networks’ HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network and Fine Living Network.
These videos would be broadcasted on their services [...]

AOL completes Bebo acquisition
US based internet company AOL has announced that they have now completed the acquisition of social networking service Bebo.
Bebo is very popular in Europe. However it is a relatively smaller player in this market dominated by MySpace, Facebook and Orkut.
Hi5 and Friendster are some other players in the social networking industry.
AOL said [...]