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Article | 5/06/2009 YouTube drives video viewing to record month

People in the U.S. viewed a record 16.8 billion videos online in April, a 16 percent increase over March, due in large part to a "surge" in usage at Y...

Article | 5/06/2009 Google plans significant improvements to Docs suite

Google Docs, a hosted suite of office productivity applications, still has a ways to go in its development, but users can expect dramatic changes in t...

Article | 3/06/2009 Google Search Appliance now can index billions of documents

A revamped software architecture for the Google Search Appliance (GSA) and a new high-end model of this enterprise search device lift its indexing cap...

Article | 1/06/2009 Yahoo sets date for shutting down 360 social network

Yahoo will close its Yahoo 360 social-networking site in July, something it originally planned to do in early 2008 and later delayed to last year's se...

Article | 29/05/2009 Time Warner ditches troubled AOL unit

Time Warner will finally rid itself of AOL, its struggling Internet subsidiary, by spinning it off as a publicly traded company.

Article | 29/05/2009 Google's Wave consolidates core online features in one tool

Google released to developers an early version of a collaboration and communication tool that consolidates features from e-mail, instant messaging, bl...

Article | 27/05/2009 Facebook gets $200M cash infusion

Facebook, whose dizzying growth in recent years has been rumored to put a growing strain on its finances, has sold a stake to investment firm Digital ...

Article | 22/05/2009 Bugs hit Facebook application verification program

Facebook's Application Verification Program, controversial due to its concept of charging developers to have their applications certified as "trustwor...

Article | 22/05/2009 Google seeks to boost geo apps with new Maps API

Google has released a new API for Google Maps designed to relieve developers of the burden of maintaining their own repositories for geographical data...

Article | 22/05/2009 Wikipedia drops GNU in favor of Creative Commons license

The Wikimedia Foundation will change the terms under which it licenses the content in Wikipedia, the organization said Thursday.

Article | 21/05/2009 IAB: Social ad success requires extreme transparency

For marketers, so-called social ads, which display data and actions from social-network members, can be either gold mines or landmines.

Article | 21/05/2009 Facebook rewards 'trustworthy' apps with review program

Facebook's controversial program to charge developers in order to review their applications made its debut on Wednesday.

Article | 20/05/2009 Gmail gains automatic translation

Gmail users can now automatically translate messages they receive into 41 languages, Google <a href="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-in-labs...

Article | 19/05/2009 Facebook gives major boost to OpenID

Facebook has adopted the OpenID user-identity framework to simplify how people register for and log into the social networking site.

Article | 14/05/2009 Click fraud identification guidelines released

The Interactive Advertising Bureau has published guidelines for determining when fraudsters are taking advantage of pay-per-click (PPC) advertisements...