Media - Internet

NEW DELHI, September 19: Rediff has emerged as the most popular portal of choice, according to the findings of Portal Perception Study 2004-05. About 36.8 per cent of users surveyed said Rediff was their most favourite portal. The maximum number of users in New Delhi (40 per cent), Kolkata (40 per cent) and Chennai (35 per cent) favoured Rediff. Yahoo India was second placed in the popularity...

The outward and visible pace of change seems suddenly frenetic. One minute the Guardian changes shape, the next the Sunday and Daily Telegraph begin testing new tabloid sections inside a broadsheet wrapper, the Independent on Sunday prepares to go the whole hog - and the Sunday Times carries on compacting its innards so that, as one very senior paper boy observes, you can't get it through any...

Yahoo's latest online news project is called "The Hot Zone" and is billed as a much-needed look at war-torn regions that have drawn scant mainstream media coverage. But the title could just as easily describe the trouble the media giant could encounter as it ventures for the first time into original news reporting. Web portals have traditionally played the role of news aggregators, publishing the...

September 16, 2005 -- Time Warner stock jumped yesterday as investors cheered the possibility of a wide-ranging Internet partnership with Microsoft. Time Warner has been in discussions with Microsoft about selling a stake in its beleaguered America Online unit and merging AOL with Microsoft's Web unit MSN. The Post broke the news of the talks yesterday. Time Warner's shares rose 58 cents, or 3.2...

Humbled by the surging fortunes of Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., two titans of the Internet's early days – Microsoft Corp. and Time Warner Inc.'s America Online – might scrap their historic rivalry and join forces. Microsoft's MSN and AOL are negotiating to combine some or all of their operations – including their free e-mail and instant-messaging services as well as widely viewed portal pages...

Yahoo! has been taking a beating in the blogosphere lately. On Sept. 6 came the revelation that it provided information that helped Beijing jail a journalist. Days earlier, a report said Yahoo was actively supporting the companies that spawn pop-up ads. Around the same time, bloggers started griping about new Yahoo software downloads that change the preferences on users' PCs. Pretty soon, even a...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. is making some of the features on its Internet division site, MSN, available to outside software developers as it takes on Google Inc. in the Web-based information and services market. Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, is encouraging software developers to write programs that tap into MSN, hoping such programs will increase the number of...

SEARCH GIANT GOOGLE WEDNESDAY LAUNCHED a search engine exclusively for blogs, entering a market that has thus far been dominated by niche search engines like Technorati.com, BlogPulse.com, Feedster.com, and IceRocket.com. The feature, located at BlogSearch.Google.com, is still in beta testing. As of yet, there are no keyword-related ads alongside the natural search results. Google announced the...

From aggregator news, Yahoo plans to generate hot content aimed to attract youngsters. Barely days after it made bad news for being instrumental in Chinese authorities jailing a journalist, Yahoo is in the thick and thin of news once again. The Internet giant has hired its first journalist and will now be generating multimedia content. Yahoo has hired veteran television correspondent, Kevin Sites...

"One man. A World of Conflict." That is how the internet portal Yahoo! is announcing its move into the world of war reporting. Hiring one of the world's best-known war correspondents is seen as a move by Yahoo! to widen its horizons and challenge traditional media companies. Kevin Sites, the American cameraman famous for filming the shooting by a US soldier of an apparently unarmed civilian in a...