The website of BBC Russian – bbcrussian.com – and GZT.RU, one of Russia’s top ten online news portals, today announce a new agreement that will enable international news seekers to access a variety of Russian-language video content from bbcrussian.com, direct from the GZT.RU website. The deal with the online news portal will make BBC video [...]
London : Former “Baywatch” actress Pamela Anderson has been granted a restraining order against an Internet design company following a legal battle over her official website. Anderson had hired experts at CMAEON to design her website in 2009, but fired the firm when she discovered a vital tool, which allowed customers to purchase Anderson-branded goods, [...]
London/San Francisco : Google is planning to launch a pay-per-view movie section on its popular video site YouTube, according to a report Monday in the Financial Times. The web giant has reportedly been holding talks with the major Hollywood studios in order to snag films for its new service which would compete with existing sites [...]
Boston : Boston.com’s comprehensive listing of homes for sale in the Greater Boston market and beyond is now available to browse in a new, free app for the iPhone. The new Boston.com Real Estate app provides on-the-go access for buyers to view property details and photos, share favorite homes with family and friends, and more. [...]
Personalized Search Experience Focuses on Real-time Listings, and Community, Demographic and Lifestyle Information Toronto: Yahoo! and Zoocasa, Canada’s fastest growing real estate search site, today announced the launch of a new application that enables Canadians to access Zoocasa’s online real estate search service directly from their Yahoo.ca homepage. Now the more than 17 million Canadians [...]
San Francisco: Yahoo has completed the migration of its web and mobile search functions to Microsoft’s Bing search engine as the two companies hope that their combined market power may prove a more significant threat to the dominance of Google. The integration comes more than a year after Yahoo and Microsoft announced their 10-year search [...]
Reston: comScore, Inc. recently released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. With the July 2010 qSearch data release, comScore will now be reporting “Explicit Core Search” results alongside its standard “Total Core Search” results in order to provide transparency around the impact of contextually driven searches. Google Sites led the U.S. [...]
London : More than 2.5 million Muslims have threatened to quit Facebook after four Islamic pages were taken down, reports said Friday. A template letter that has been pasted into numerous Facebook pages accuses founder Mark Zuckerberg and other senior members of Facebook of “ignoring the feelings of more than 2.5 million Muslims”, the Daily [...]
Seattle : Allrecipes.com, a Reader’s Digest Association (RDA) brand, has announced record-breaking results for its fiscal year, which ended June 30, as the #1 website in the online food category for the 16th straight month (comScore). In the past 12 months, home cooks paid 434 million visits to the site, consuming, creating and sharing 2.7 [...]
Toronto : With Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android-driven devices fast cutting into its supremacy in the global smartphone market, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) faces a stormy annual meeting Tuesday. Based at Waterloo near here, the RIM’s BlackBerry still holds about 41 percent share of the smartphone platform, followed by Apple’s iPhone 24.4 percent [...]