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AOL Inc. announced its acquisition of New York-based content marketing platform startup Pictela to bolster its advertising offering. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Pictela is a platform for distributing videos, photos and applications across the Web in real time.

After being voted 'Person of the Year' by Time magazine Mark Zukerberg's brainchild Facebook is expected to post $2 billion in revenue for the year 2010.

Benchmark Capital raised its profit estimates and price target on Google Inc., citing the company's strong operating momentum in search business.

Yahoo Inc said on Tuesday it will cut 4 percent of its workforce, as the struggling Web portal adjusts its operations to revive revenue growth.

Internet company Yahoo Inc is preparing to retrench between 600 and 700 employees ahead of a holiday trimming due to its lackluster growth.

Yahoo Inc plans to lay off more than 600 employees as early as Tuesday, two sources familiar with the situation said on Monday.

Google has released its year-end search report - Zeitgeist 2010. Among the personalities and events that figure on search trends list are Justin Beiber, Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, Oil Spill, World Cup, Haiti Earthquake and more.

While it may make some strategic sense for Yahoo and AOL to combine some of their operations, she sees little hope for the resulting merged entity to mount a challenge against the reigning monarch of the search-engine market, Google (NASDAQ: GOOG).

AOL Inc is actively exploring a breakup of the company in a complicated series of transactions that may lead to a merger with Yahoo Inc, sources close to the plans told Reuters.

AOL Inc, undergoing a radical transformation into the king of content on the Internet, is actively exploring a breakup of the company involving a complicated series of transactions that may lead to a merger with Yahoo Inc, sources close to the plans said.

Search giant Google said it has revised its search algorithm to filter bad sites after a New York Times article exposed how an online merchant manipulated Google to get publicity for his website.

BP Oil Spill, FIFA World Cup, Lady Gaga, Justin Beiber, iPhone are among the top searches in 2010, according to the Yahoo's 'Year in Review' report which tallies hot searches on a variety of lists.

In a deal worth $2.5 billion Google is rumored to have acquired the collective daily deal provider Groupon, beating Yahoo, to capture the hottest company on the web.

Internet search engine Google has played down its rivalry with social networking site Facebook, but said social media was part of its strategy and would be embedded in many of its products.

Facebook has to stabilize its revenue if it is to reach the $41 billion value cited in some reports.

Holomaxx Technologies Corp., a Can-Spam compliant bulk emailer, has accused Yahoo, Microsoft, Cisco Ironport Systems and Return Path of breaching the wiretapping and other communications laws and wrongly blocking the mass emails it sends on behalf of its clients from reaching intended recipients.

Yahoo, the once-mighty torch bearer for the Internet age, is shaking up it business strategies even as the company is bedeviled by job cuts, takeover speculation and a fall in share prices.

At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Yahoo! introduces a local deals service.

Yahoo Japan Corp and U.S. firm Google Inc are broadening the scope of their video delivery services in Japan, the Nikkei business daily reported.

Oh, Hollywood celebrities... their lifestyles are just as wild as their eating habits.

Microsoft Corp met Wednesday with Japan's Fair Trade Commission officials to object to the planned tie-up between Yahoo Japan and Google Inc, the Nikkei business daily reported.

Yahoo Inc is splitting the duties for its North American sales operations among four internal executives instead of replacing the sales boss that left the Internet giant nearly five months ago.

Yahoo Japan, Japan's largest Internet portal operator, will adopt Google's search engine, refusing to follow Yahoo Inc in choosing Microsoft as a partner.

Yahoo Japan, Japan's largest Internet portal site, appears set to adopt Google's search engine instead of teaming up with Microsoft like partner Yahoo Inc, media reported.

Google's dominant position on the global online search market slipped slightly in the second quarter, as it retreated from the Chinese market, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Friday.

Google's dominant position on the global online search market slipped slightly in the second quarter, as it retreated from the Chinese market, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Friday.

Yahoo Inc missed Wall Street's revenue estimates in the second quarter as some customers unexpectedly cut spending on online display ads toward the end of June, and shares fell more than 6 percent.

News Corp is in talks with Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc about advertising on MySpace, as an existing contract with Google ends, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Digital market research firm ComScore Inc acquired the products division of Nexius Inc, a provider of network analysis focused on the experience of wireless subscribers, to strengthen its product line-up targeted at wireless carriers.