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Alibaba to Spend USD200mn-plus on M&A

China's e-commerce heavyweight Alibaba Group plans to spend at least USD 200 million on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as well as other investments in the next few years, part of its ongoing efforts to quicken expansion in face of the slowing global economy.

China Q1 Online Search Requests Down

China search engines' web page searches amounted to 44.27 billion queries in the first quarter of 2009, down 5.4 per cent quarter on quarter but up 49.8 per cent year on year, according to iResearch statistics.

China Blocks Social Networking & Online Tools, Seeking Tiananmen Damage Control

Parting with Twitter, Flickr and Hotmail is such tweet sorrow. In what's been called the "Great Firewall of China," Beijing has blocked nearly a dozen Western Internet sites and search engines in advance of the 20th anniversary Thursday of the Tiananmen Square crackdown.

Google Launches 'Google Wave'

Internet giant Google blurred the lines between e-mail and instant messaging Thursday, introducing "Google Wave" at a San Francisco conference.

Paid AOL Subscribers File Suit Over Email Adverts

Two AOL members have recently filed a lawsuit against the company for inserting advertisements into their emails -- a premium service for which that they pay a monthly fee.

Wolfram Alpha: An Answer Machine, Not a Search Engine

For most online searches, nothing beats Google. It's fast, easy to use and generally delivers results that lead you to the information you want. But when you have a question such as "How far is it from Boston to New York?" Google responds by giving you a bunch of links that might hold the answer. A service called Wolfram Alpha (WolframAlpha.com), which officially launched last week, seeks to answer your questions without links.

Nonprofits Tap Online Networks to Raise Funds

Nonprofits, taking a cue from President Obama's recent campaign, are using social media to raise funds and garner more involvement in their causes and events.

Obama Taps Into Social Media to Relay Crucial Swine Flu Info

Forget a press conference or a notice to the public -- when the Obama administration needs to announce something critical it uses MySpace , and Twitter?

GradeGov.com Enables Users to Rate Their Elected Leaders

In the academic arena, college students have long been able to grade their professors on the Internet. And services like Yelp have long allowed user reviews of restaurants and businesses. Finally, it appears the political arena is catching up. The recently launched Gradegov.com will allow constituents to give their elected representatives a grade from A to F.

Are Twitters Quitters?

Twitter has swept the country like a good-old fashioned Rubik's Cube in 1983. But will Twitter have the staying power of the ubiquitous toy or the XFL? A new report put out by Nielsen Media Research suggests that the Internet phenomenon may turn out to be just a fad.

Facebook Skyrockets Past Email

Internet users visit social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, more than they use their email, with such online activity growing five percent from the previous year, according to a recent study done by media research group Nielsen.

Experts: Media Hype May Have Thwarted Conficker -- But Don't Get Too Relaxed

It was an odd phenomenon: The more media stories you saw about the massive Conficker computer worm that was supposed to wreak havoc on April 1, the less likely it was that anything would happen on that day. Executives from a leading computer-security firm say that although widespread media coverage -- some might call it hype -- may have thwarted Conficker on that day, the virus is still very much a threat. Juan Santana, CEO of Spain-based Panda Security that the virus's still-unknown authors may just be biding time.

Online Job Postings Down by 100,000

As unemployment rates continue to rise, online job postings in March 2009 fell by 100,000, according to the Conference Board, demonstrating that the gap between the supply of labor and the demand for it continues to widen. Although far worse than February's 6,600 decline, the March numbers were better than those reported by the Conference Board in January 2009 and December 2008, both of which experienced online job posting reductions of a staggering 500,000.

Truuconfessions: Read What People Really Think

There's a place online where you can confess almost anything anonymously -- and read what others are confessing too. It's called Truuconfessions.com -- and, once you start reading, it's nigh impossible to look away.

Google Ocean Atlantis Rumors Sunk

Google Ocean has spurred some serious debate with users who are pondering how an enigmatic and alien-like grid formation found off the coast of Morocco came about. Despite the many theories that this pattern was indeed from extraterrestrials or was the outline of the mysterious city of Atlantis, contesting that this bizarre pattern was merely formed by ships performing sonar surveys of the ocean floor.

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