• AOL Debuts Local Search by Shankar Gupta

    AOL Wednesday debuted its own local search engine--available to both AOL subscribers and regular Web denizens--entering the fray with search giants Google and Yahoo!, who have recently beefed up their own local search offerings. ...Read the whole story

  • Match.com Launches Web Magazine For Daters by Shankar Gupta

    Match.com, one of the biggest online dating services, Wednesday announced the launch of a weekly Web magazine, called Happen Magazine, dedicated to the lives of single men and women desperately seeking relationships. ...Read the whole story

  • RBC Capital Sees Search Softening, Downgrades Google, Yahoo! by Wendy Davis

    Surprisingly tepid spending on paid search so far this year led RBC Capital Markets to downgrade its rating to "sector perform" for both Google and Yahoo! in a report issued yesterday. Previously, RBC Capital gave a "top pick" rating to Mountain View, Calif.-based Google and an "outperform" to Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo!. RBC Capital reduced Google's target price to $200 from $250, and Yahoo!'s to $34 from $43. ...Read the whole story

  • Study: Web Users Turn Away From Broadcast News by Wendy Davis

    Web users with an interest in current events increasingly turn to the Internet for news, at the expense of watching television and reading newspapers and magazines, according to a recent Washingtonpost.com study. ...Read the whole story

  • Broadband Via Electric Lines Could Challenge DSL, Cable by Gavin O'Malley

    Providing broadband service through electric power lines is a potentially competitive alternative to high-speed Internet connections via cable and DSL, but infrastructure and regulatory issues loom, said participants in a conference call yesterday held by the New Millennium Research Council, a Washington, D.C. lobby and policy group. ...Read the whole story

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