Microsoft Research Asia has launched the Search Technology Center. MSN customers in China and around the world can search products and services. […] [...]

Google, Yahoo, eBay or Amazon is expected to make an attempt to buy Rearden Commerce. Rearden provides a one-stop shop for a range of requests from courier service to travel. […] [...]

Google will extend its ad-brokering and begin buying and selling television ad time. Traditional media owners are panicking at the speed and scale of changes brought about by the internet. […] [...]

Microsoft has announced MSN book search that will include the content from books, academic materials, periodicals and other print resources. […] [...]

Microsoft will fund Open Content Alliance to digitize 150,000 public domain books over the next year. Yahoo agreed to power the OCA earlier this month. […] [...]

Web users, 80%, fear identity theft according to a national survey. Online shoppers, 54%, read a site’s privacy policy or user agreement before buying. […] [...]

eBay Pixel Page has become the number one most visited Million Dollar Homepage. Consumers get to view those hard to find gifts and advertisers get 20 cents per pixel advertising. […] [...]

Google has contributed $350,000 to support open source, free software. The Oregon University will work on software and hardware development and help projects worldwide. […] [...]

Several Blogs have reported that Google has started a new service Google Base that allows users to post events, housing, jobs and products. eBay’s shares fell 5.6%. […] [...]

Answers.com and Wikipedia have announced a partnership to feature one-click access to the encyclopedia. They will share the ad revenues. […] [...]