The search giant rolls out a beta shopping search channel in its latest attempt to capitalize on the huge Chinese online market. Google is eyeing the booming Chinese e-commerce search market after entering into the music search space there in March. Google ...

As murder-mysteries go, this one is baffling, in part because the corpse is still breathing. The one-word answer is: Oprah. But the full truth is far more interesting. Twitter was the hottest, fastest-growing, most attention-grabbing social service for ...

Facebook’s new personalized usernames and URLs could be a boost to online marketers, but is it a lost opportunity for the social networking site? One minute after the stroke of midnight on Saturday could usher in a virtual land grab for vanity URLs ...

EBay has launched a new promotion called the eBay Sellers Challenge, an initiative designed to inspire entrepreneurs to grow existing businesses—or start new ones—on eBay. Four winners will each receive a $25,000 business grant, along with marketing ...

Users can preview two new Adobe products, Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder 4, starting today. Both programs aim to simplify the process of designing Web applications. Catalyst, which has never before been released to the public, is aimed at designers. ...

This Saturday, Palm will launch what some are calling a last-ditch gamble: its new smart phone, the Palm Pre. The media has been buzzing with speculation about another iPhone challenger, and Palm loyalists see the Pre as the best hope for their favorite ...

Google is looking to change the way we use the Internet to communicate with a new service that it calls Google Wave. Wave was previewed Thursday during the Google I/O conference as a way to combine e-mail, chat, photos, feeds from around the Web, and ...