TechCrunch reported that Jeremy Stoppleman, the chief executive officer for localized reviews website Yelp.com, rejected Google’s acquisition offer that is said to be worth about US$550 million. Yelp was founded in 2004 as a site where users post reviews on local businesses.  The website has an estimated 9 million monthly unique visitors, according to Comscore, although the people in Yelp claim they ha...

It still rings true that whoever (or whatever) offers information in real time may have better appeal to most people. This can never be truer than in the social Web. The active people on the social Web usually look for information about their colleagues, friends or even news the earliest that it comes out online. No wonder real time search engines are suddenly cropping up everywhere on the Web. The best search e...

Twitter is still getting ever more popular among people who thrive on updated info about others. For a very popular service on the Web, it seems quite surprising that the people who run the website still haven’t found a way to generate revenue from it. The popularity of Twitter has made it an interesting service that still gets many attractive investors. But how long will this arrangement keep up? There ar...

With Microsoft trying gain some attention in the world of online search, it has recently come up with Bing, the software giant’s new baby. Bing as an online search engine may not be anything new for some people since Microsoft already had its own existing search engine called Live Search for sometime now. But this time, they’ll try to improve or enhance what they have learned about online search and h...

The recent days have seen the launch of several online search engine startups. Many came and many also left. Some were built up with hype and it seems that it was only that being offered on the table. And some, well, they are just not cut out to be major players in online search after all. The main reason for this may be the fact that Google still holds a considerable lead over all the other online search engine...

A new website named Magma will be opened to the online public in the coming weeks. It is currently undergoing testing through online invitation and is set to be a new entry into the hot web video online market or so it seems. It will try to put a new twist into how online users may be offered web videos. A lot of people nowadays go online to watch videos. There are more popular sites such as Youtube, Vimeo and H...

Wolfram Alpha is now up and running. After all the hoopla and the excitement surrounding its online emergence, it seems that there are other more important things for Wolfram Research to think about. There are things such as sustainability and revenue that would determine how long this new computational knowledge engine will stay online. That would mean looking for some means of revenue that would be beneficial t...

Google is investing in a new online start up worth US5.75 million. The said start up, Pixazza, aims to gain from trying to place links to photos on the Web that will lead people to buy products featured on the images. Quite an interesting idea to have. This might just be the reason why online search giant Google found it interesting enough to invest in. Pixazza, a start up company based in Mountain View, Californ...

What a way to start the year, JPG Magazine will be closing down. JPG Magazine was a  startup that had a radical idea.  First they would crowdsource their content, then sell the magazine on news stands.  The tragic magic there was the core of their revenue model, print ads, a really bad idea in this time and age.  JPG magazine’s main revenue stream was to come from selling print ads which...

Wink, a Mountain View CA based startup that specializes in crawling social networks to find people  is merging with social networking site in Santa Monica CA, Reunion.  The two companies will be leveraging Wink’s 700 million individual profiles and web crawling capabilities and Reunion’s 50 million users to gain a head start in the social search market. According to the two companies, they ...