Michael Singer

SAN JOSE, Calif. — While the rest of the Search world is focused on ad dollars and acquisitions, Singingfish is honing its technologies to actually finding things that people want — rich media. The Seattle-based firm best known for a repository of links to audio and video content Wednesday said it is adding Flash-based material […]

Micromuse , which makes Netcool brand software to monitor the performance of IT systems, Wednesday said it will acquire NETWORK HARMONi (NHI) out of San Diego, Calif. for $23 million in cash. The combination of the two companies’ software platforms is expected to help customers manage distributed Windows, Linux, and UNIX servers, Web servers, databases, […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A consortium of more than 300 search engine marketing firms launched a new industry association Wednesday. Their goal: to increase awareness and promote the value of search engine marketing services. Under the umbrella name of the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization — or SEMPO — the group says it wants to […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Google co-founder Sergey Brin says he never imagined how popular and widespread his search engine would become, but despite his altruistic attitude, he is excited about making money off of it. “The company as a whole is building the technology,” Brin said during a faux fireside chat at the Search Engine […]

Hoping to keep its edge in the server marketplace Sun Microsystems officially announced a new 64-bit processor, designed specifically for blade and thin rack-mount Web and Application servers. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based network computer maker said its new Gemini chip is its first generation CMT (Chip Multi-Threading) UltraSPARC processor. First in Sun’s h-Series UltraSPARC family, […]

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The world of search engines is on the crux of some big changes with no clear winners in the next 12 months, according to SearchEngine Watchfounder Danny Sullivan. Whereas major players such as Google, Yahoo! , and Microsoft currently dominate the landscape, the remaining batch of survivors also look to play […]

PeopleSoft Monday cast aside any doubt whether it could continue to come up with products and new ideas under pressure. The Pleasanton, Calif.-based Internet business software maker is now offering a bundled package of its organization software under the umbrella name Workforce Performance Solutions (WPS). The suite is comprised of separately launched platforms designed to […]

The tech recovery is on and nowhere its that more apparent than in the semiconductor industry, according to analysts. New reports released Monday by Gartner , Advanced Forecasting, and the Fabless Semiconductor Association all point to double-digit growth in a year that didn’t start out so well. Stamford, Conn.-based Gartner says an usual seasonal uptick […]

Officials are already calling it the largest power outage in the history of the United States. But even as the electricity began coming slowly back online by midday Friday, many of the 50 million residents in New York, Toronto, Ottawa, Detroit, Ohio and Connecticut who were left without power Thursday came to the realization they […]

AMIS Holdings, Inc., parent company of AMI Semiconductor (AMIS) Friday said the company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) seeking initial public offering of its common stock. The Pocatello, Idaho-based concern specializes in making custom integrated mixed signal semiconductor products. AMIS focuses on the automotive, medical and industrial markets, which have many […]

Following the success of its wireless Internet launch in San Francisco last month, fast food giant McDonald’s announced Friday that it is holding a Sweepstakes. Each month, over the next five months, Wi-Fi users in the Bay Area will have the chance to win an IBM ThinkPad notebook or a Palm Tungsten C handheld, if […]

Building on the recent release of a new Web services standard, Oracle Friday began offering sample testing kits designed to interoperate with its Oracle9i Application Server. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based software giant said an early release of its WS-I supply chain application is now available for download from its online developer community (OTN). The tools […]