Nicholas Carlson

A new commercially oriented search engine meant to compete with Google, Yahoo and Microsoft re-launched today. It's called Snap.com, and it has some ideas

$90 million isn't enough. Not for lead plaintiff Joseph Kinney and the other Internet advertisers who this week had their lawyers sue to block the $90

Apple scored a FairPlay victory in France last night. The French Senate amended, then passed a bill allowing Apple to continue using its FairPlay format,

Google Maps isn't only for direction-seekers. The search giant has extended the use of Maps to let people build map apps on their own sites. Since Google

Peer-to-peer darling BitTorrent is pulling down its Skull and Crossbones flag and hanging out a shingle for Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group.

Yahoo today said it plans to roll out a redesigned search advertising platform, which spokeswoman Gaude Paez said will help Yahoo compete with rivals

Anti-spyware activist Bed Edelman is leading a new round of charges that search and portal player Yahoo deployed clickfraud with the help of spyware in

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer thinks Wall Street analysts should back off. The $2.4 billion his company earmarked for research and development in 2006 will

After all the talk, direct competition is finally escalating between Google and Microsoft. It's to a point now that Google even gets mentions in Microsoft

UPDATED: News Corporation dipped back into its $2 billion war chest to buy Newroo and kSolo.com, two sites that specialize in user-generated content. For

In a play for more eyeballs, Yahoo today announced Yahoo Tech, which delivers tech-purchasing advice for information-seeking consumers. The site will

Now you can build your dream home for free. Or, rather, render a 3-D version of it and place it on Google Earth using Google SketchUp, the company