Nielsen’s data showed Google at 128.2 million, Microsoft at 122.1 million, and Yahoo at 117.1 million.

ComScore said Google sites had 141.1 million unique visitors in April, a tad ahead of Yahoo’s 140.6 million. Microsoft was in third at 121.2 million, with AOL at 111.3 million.

However, underscoring the variability of this sort of measurement, which extrapolates [...]

Those who subscribe to Albany will also get several free Microsoft products pushed onto their desktop–including online document-sharing product Office Live Workspace, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Photo Gallery, and Windows Live Mail.

Gordon argued that having all the products installed at one time is seen as a plus by the segment targeted by Albany, but [...]

Google has added a new level of detail to the tools advertisers can use to track the performance of their search-ad campaigns, showing them the geographic region of the users who clicked on the ads.

Advertisers pay Google for ads next to search results when users click on them, so obviously advertisements have an interest in [...]

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“Probably a subsequent version of Android is going to pick up a lot of the Chrome stack,” Brin said, pointing to JavaScript improvements as one area.

Chrome and Android were developed largely separately, Brin said in an interview at the Chrome launch event Tuesday. “We have not wanted to bind one’s hands to [...]

Update 7:50 AM Pacific: corrected figure for Embarcadero’s annual revenue before its planned acquisition of CodeGear.

CodeGear products are aimed at individual programmers, while the lifecycle management suite is designed for teams of developers, testers, and architects.

CodeGear sells the products that Borland used to be best known for–its JBuilder Java development tool, Delphi, and C++Builder. [...]

Ash Patel will now report to Yahoo President Susan Decker.
News.com Poll Reshaping Yahoo The new reorg makes some big changes, but how much will it help the company?

Reporting to Balogh in the search domain are David Ku, leading the advertising technology group; Prabhakar Raghavan, leading search strategy; and Tuoc Luong, leading search products [...]

The hydrogen filling station is located at the corporate headquarters of Nuvera Fuel Cells, which has developed a system to convert natural gas to hydrogen. The company will be the main customer of the hydrogen, which it will use for its product development and research.

The first stop after leaving Portland was Billerica, Mass., where there [...]

But the company was encouraged by its 2008 U.S. success, according to Timoni. While sales were down in the last quarter, Piaggio Group Americas saw a 61 percent increase in the sales of scooters and 15 percent increase in motorcycles overall for 2008. The company attributed the good year to the gas price increase, convenience, [...]