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Article | 25/06/2008 Google's Blogger hit by publishing problems

Google's Blogger is experiencing problems with its publishing system, the company acknowledged Tuesday.

Article | 20/06/2008 EBay boosts fraud protections for PayPal users

EBay has unveiled expanded protections for those buyers and sellers in its marketplace who complete transactions using the company's PayPal online pay...

Article | 19/06/2008 Ask.com places privacy policy link in home page

Ask.com has decided to put a link to its privacy policy on its home page, something that search-engine rival Google has declined to do and that has ea...

Article | 19/06/2008 Skype trots out beta of major redesign

Skype has made available a test version of its latest upgrade, Skype 4.0, which the eBay unit calls its biggest and most ambitious release in its almo...

Article | 16/06/2008 MySpace to shake up its layout

MySpace will unveil this week a large-scale redesign that will alter major components of the social-networking site, like its home page, navigation sc...

Article | 11/06/2008 Tech problem stumps Yahoo, forces Mail features rollback

Yahoo is rolling back security and anti-spam enhancements to its Webmail service because they interfered with users' ability to retrieve POP e-mail fr...

Article | 10/06/2008 Amazon site stumbles again Monday

Online shoppers struggled to enter Amazon.com's main e-commerce site on Monday, after it had experienced similar problems on Friday.

Article | 4/06/2008 Google upgrades and rebrands site search service

Google will roll out a new version of its hosted site search service for businesses on this week, featuring improved indexing and a new name.

Article | 4/06/2008 Shareholder lawsuit claims Yahoo derailed Microsoft bid

Yahoo has lost a battle to keep information about its operations confidential after a judge decided to unseal documents filed by shareholders suing th...

Article | 30/05/2008 IDC: US Internet ad spending to boom

Online advertising will balloon in the coming years, becoming bigger than all advertising media except direct marketing by 2012, according to IDC.

Article | 2/06/2008 Yahoo's BrowserPlus to boost Web app platform

Yahoo last week announced it is working on BrowserPlus, a development platform for creating Web applications that contain desktop capabilities.

Article | 29/05/2008 Google highlights OpenSocial, Gears at I/O event

Google has upgraded its OpenSocial platform with a new REST (representational state transfer) API for applications that need to tap back-end servers f...

Article | 23/05/2008 Facebook provides more redesign details

Facebook is disclosing more details about the planned redesign for its core member profile pages, as it attempts to regain the layout's orderly, strea...

Article | 22/05/2008 MySpace hit by application spam

Like Facebook before it, MySpace is having to take corrective steps to curb spam from applications built by external developers using its new applicat...

Article | 13/05/2008 Google steps into data portability dance

Google is releasing a preview version of Friend Connect, a service designed to let Web publishers add social networking features to their sites.