Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which shook up the e-mail industry when it integrated chat with e-mail, is now trying to catch up to its rivals by letting Gmail users share status updates. The WSJ reports that Google will soon add a “new module that will allow Gmail users to view a…

Google has confirmed yesterday’s reports - YouTube has inked rights from the big-money Indian Premier League’s (IPL) licensing partner Global Cricket Ventures to live-stream all 60 matches of the 45-day tournament, starting March 12. It’s YouTube’s first deal to live-stream a big global sport - no mere domestic competition, IPL…

Is the super-rich Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket competition about to go global in a deal with YouTube? Several reports from Indian media say Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and the Bord of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will on Wednesday announce a live streaming deal. YouTube had already hosted match…

The Mirror’s associate editor urged the news business to rely less on search engines and more on its journalism, in a World Newspaper Congress World Editors Forum keynote in Hyderabad, India. Matt Kelly, who first began his public crusade this summer on paidContent:UK, said: “In our great frantic headlong rush…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has agreed to acquire AdMob, a mobile ad network, for $750 million in stock. Release. At that jaw-dropping price, it marks Google’s third-largest acquisition after DoubleClick and YouTube and is a very solid exit for AdMob and its investors, which have pumped in $47 million into the…

By Mercedes Bunz: With the new Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Dashboard, the personal data and product settings of different Google products are combined on one side to make it simpler for users to deal with them. The feature, which has just been launched, looks like a console for your personal data.…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) India today launched a voice search application for mobile phones that run on the Nokia S60 platform. Most Nokia (NYSE: NOK) phones in the N and E series, apart from some models by Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), use the S60 platform, which is designed for…

A week after Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) splashed India’s top newspapers with its bright yellow house colour in a high voltage ad campaign, it has emerged that its email service has lost its status as the most popular email service in India to Gmail, rival Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Inc.‘s email service.…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) India is expanding its AdWords advertiser base and is trying to get small businesses from smaller cities and towns to try out the search giant’s ad platform. The company will hold a series of events across smaller towns—it began with Chandigarh today—to educate small businesses about advertising…

By John Plunkett: Even in the midst of a global economic downturn there is one company, it would seem, that is resistant to the recession. Can’t think of the household name that has bucked the slump? Try Googling it. The internet search company was the biggest winner in the definitive…

Motorola’s biggest success to date was when it released the thinnest and sexiest device the world had seen. Since then, the handset-maker has struggled to produce anything like it. Yesterday, everyone was prepared to see Motorola’s latest form factor that would bring it back from the brink. Instead, what we…

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) reached an agreement last month under which Yahoo Search will be replaced by Microsoft’s Bing sometime in 2010. According to Komli Media’s analytics platform Vizisense, the combined share of search traffic from India for Yahoo and Microsoft in July is only 8.49%, compared…

A Mumbai court has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against Sundararaman. K, a former head of ad sales for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) India, in a criminal defamation case pertaining to content on some blogs hosted on Blogger.com, a Google service. The petitioner is Business World senior associate editor Gurbir Singh.…

In a bid to boost internet adoption by a wider demographic base, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) India is literally taking the internet to the people—in a bus. The Internet Bus, a rather cool initiative the company launched on Tuesday, aims to reach out to those with limited access and exposure to…

In an interesting move, Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile services company, has appointed Nikesh Arora, a top executive of Google Inc. on the board of the company as an indepedent director. Arora is one of the few top ranking executives at the search engine and is in charge of Europe.…

Considering the success of Wiki-Mapia in India, it isn’t suprising Map Maker was a product developed by Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) Indian engineering team. Take a quick look at the most described cities*, and Bombay tops the list on Wiki-mapia with 55,577 listings, followed by Calcutta at the second spot and…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Sify are expanding their relationship beyond just search: Per a new agreement, Google Apps will power Sify’s chat, Sifymail, and online documents as well as other unspecified applications. Business terms of the deal have not been disclosed. In the prepared quote, Sify CFO Raju Vegesna notes…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is adding to and building out it’s local language engine and porting it across their product range. Tamil has been added to Google News, Search, Blogger and Orkut. In addition, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam have been added to Orkut. Three more languages, a total of 8 out…

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is planning to host Bengali movies on YouTube as well as post literary works of renowned novelists on the web. As per the release, West Bengal IT Minister Debesh Das is quoted as stating Google has evinced an interest to include Bengali classical literature and movies in…