Nicholas Carlson

While speculative reports fly around the Internet about who might buy Yahoo -- Microsoft, Google or News Corp. -- new CEO Jerry Yang and President Susan

Electronic payments firm CyberSource, which traditionally focuses on managing payments for mid-sized and enterprise customers, today announced an

First came the acquisitions feeding frenzy in online advertising. Google got DoubleClick, Yahoo ate up Right Media, and Microsoft gobbled aQuantive. Now

If you're in the U.S., Google search advertising isn't going to help you "find it on eBay" today. That's because eBay is "experimenting" with other

Later this month, YouTube will begin testing technology to identify user-uploaded video content copyrighted by TimeWarner and Walt Disney. After the video

From now on, or at least until another government complains, Google will anonymize its search server logs after 18 months. The company made the

Reporter's Notebook: "I probably shouldn't admit this," the bespectacled woman across the table said. "But I don't have a television because I can't stand

Google's oft-articulated plan is to provide third-party developers with the tools they need to make the Web useful. That's because the more useful the Web

Killing off the butler didn't help, so today Ask.com introduced a new version of its search engine in hopes of boosting its lagging market share. The IAC

Reporter's Notebook: I just spent a week in Silicon Valley, where the nights are surprisingly cool, even in May, and the highways are wide. And where

Web video startup Joost already has a new chief to run the show. Former Cisco Systems  executive Mike Volpi today succeeded Joost founding CEO

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- With the passing of each fiscal quarter, it's increasingly clear Google's got a good thing going connecting the world to the fruits of