Susan Kuchinskas

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- For now, Microsoft is ceding the race for dominance in Internet search to the space's 800-pound gorilla, Google, so it can focus

SAN FRANCISCO -- First there was Web 2.0: a multi-million-dollar industry riding on the social media aspects of YouTube, Flickr and Blogger. Now, there's

SAN FRANCISCO -- The so-called Web 2.0 apps -- blogs, wikis, photo-sharing, collaboration, community and other kinds of content generation-- still

EarthLink , one of the earliest national Internet service providers, is in a world of hurt. Today, the company announced it would restructure, cutting 900

Microsoft denies that it's buying aQuantive for its technology. Instead, executives say, the purchase is designed to turn part of Microsoft into possibly

A good phisherman goes where the phish are -- and that's massively popular Web sites such as YouTube. And that's exactly where two have been found. Two

SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft's Live Search has a new look. Microsoft's search and ad teams trekked south to San Francisco last night to celebrate the launch

Social media -- photos, blogs, networks and tags -- is all about sharing. But social media startups don't want to share their intellectual property.

Digital entertainment startup iBloks has a message for "techthusiasts" who are dying to play with fancy graphics in Windows Vista: Come on down. The

SAN FRANCISCO -- Remember the dot-com era? Well, forget it. Online advertising is hotter than ever if AdTech San Francisco is any indication. The

When search Goliath Google settled a click-fraud suit with Lane's Gifts last month, the search industry's collective eyebrows went up. Maybe there was a