Seemingly out of left field, Google has bought PeakStream, the two-year-old start-up whose young tools make it easier to program multi-core processors by kinda doing the parallelizing for you if you write to its APIs. Then you can run the program on a variety of chips. PeakStream has b

Google has bought a site called FeedBurner that distributes and helps manage blogs and RSS feeds, tracks usage and serves ads. It supports 721,000 feeds representing upwards of 400,000 publishers. Google will put more ads on those feeds giving it a new revenue stream. It looks like Fee

So Salesforce.com is gonna be a distribution channel for Google ads. That's what their big, widely leaked alliance is all about; other things like integrating Google's e-mail and Google's online productivity apps into Salesforce could reportedly follow. It was that potential, obviously

Salesforce has been making noises that sound like it'll announce that anticipated, supposedly anti-Microsoft deal with Google on Tuesday June 5. It's assumed to have something to do with Google's online productivity apps.

Google has put $3.9 million in 23andMe Inc, the pre-launch biotech start-up of Google co-founder Sergey Brin's new bride Anne Wojcicki, according to an SEC filing Tuesday. Some of the money was used to repaid the $2.6 million billionaire Brin advanced Anne. Google had an independent ad

Those Wall Street whispers about an alliance between Google and Salesforce.com we told you about graduated to the Wall Street Journal, which is expecting some of Google's SaaS productivity tools like e-mail and instant messaging to be mated with Salesforce.com's CRM widgetry in a Micro

The Real-World Java Seminar is a one-day event that's packed with technical presentations delivered by the Java industry experts. Attending this event will allow you to take a fresh look at the architecture of the projects you're working on now and can serve as a roadmap for your furth

One of the major features of upcoming Adobe Apollo is support disconnected Web applications, and Adobe's Kevin Lynch announced that Google Gears will be available in Apollo. Adobe Flex applications already use the space on the client's disk for storing instances of any objects (this is

Google of course expressed confidence that the acquisition will go through and close by the end of the year, using Yahoo's proposed acquisition of Right Media, AOL's acquisition of a controlling interest in Adtech, WPP's acquisition of 24/7 Media and Microsoft's intended $6 billion acq

Microsoft also supposedly bid for DoubleClick and was reportedly willing to pay a billion dollars for 24/7, which London ad agency WPP took out last week for $649 million. Yahoo is buying Right Media for $680 million and is rumored to be interested in the British social networking site

Christina Bashark has joined Edith Roman Associates as Vice President of New Business. Prior to Edith Roman Associates she was Senior Director of Business Development at Worldata responsible for the acquisition of list management accounts and the successful development of strategic mar

Google co-founder Sergey Brin, worth an estimated $16 billion, has quietly gotten married in the Bahamas to Anne Wojcicki, the sister of the lady and early Google employee who rented her Menlo Park garage to the proto-Google in 1998 and introduced the couple to each other.

The report that Microsoft is buying local digital marketing shop Aquantive for six BILLION dollars shows that if we're not in a new bubble, we're in something that sure looks and feels like the real thing. Redmond seems bent on regaining consumer computing supremacy as it competes with

Hot Banana Software, Inc. (www.hotbanana.com), a leader in Web content management for marketing, announces a new white paper from The Gilbane Group that explains how marketers benefit from utilizing a Web CMS-driven eMarketing platform to deliver tangible ROI on marketing investments.

According to the press Microsoft and Yahoo are supposed to be trying to figure out a configuration that would let them fight Google together. The notion of Yahoo's acquisition by Microsoft for, oh, $50 billion advanced by the New York Post last Friday, the Murdoch tabloid, that set rep

Novell has lost the chief architect of its Linux desktop effort Robert Love to Google and its Open Source Program Office. Many would like to ascribe it to the Microsoft-Novell relationship but Love denied it on Slashdot. It's simply the thrill of working for Google.

Evidently Nina Reiser had exquisitely bad taste in men. Her estranged husband stands accused of her murder, his trial was to have started this past Monday, but not before prosecutors were reportedly forced to tell the court that an ex-lover of hers had confessed to eight murders - and

This was a virtual story with a virtual death. The story itself was never affirmed nor denied, and it flickered out before it had any traction. This was not a rumor, but it was also not a real story. There is a continuous stream of communications among technology companies large and sm

Well, Google hasn't put Microsoft out of business yet. Redmond is still a money machine. It posted record profits up 65% to $4.93 billion, or 50 cents a share, Thursday on revenues up 32% to $14 billion for the March quarter, its might-as-well-call-it Vista quarter when the software fi

Where would YOU go to get your news? Google News? MSN News? Or Yahoo! News? I think the answer is clear (it's Google), and this reflects the success and failure of these three players. And I don't want to hear from the MSN News people that they almost got it right, but they lost Dr. Ka

Security software developer Exploit Prevention Labs (http://www.explabs.com/) today released a video at http://explabs.blogspot.c om/2007/04/video.html documenting how cyber criminals are using Google's popular AdWords advertising system to infect unsuspecting users with malware. The v

CFDynamics, a ColdFusion Web hosting company, has announced their Spring Server Spectacular. The Spring Server Spectacular is an opportunity for the company to offer top-of-the-line dedicated servers at a discounted cost to encourage customers to expand their services. The Spring Serve

When exactly Eric didn't say - a Google blog says this summer - and he didn't claim it would replace PowerPoint. 'It does not have all the functionality nor is it intended to have all the functionality of Microsoft,' he said, but 'it seems to be a better fit to how people use the web.'

The so-called 'Deep Web' search arena is really heating up, according to Fetch. Several business are already using the company's technology to turn the Web into a usable database, the company says. One example deploying its technology to provide detailed personal background information

Spending money like a sailor on shore leave, Google has agreed to pay $3.1 billion cash for DoubleClick, the $150 million-a-year display ad-targeting cookie-carrying activity-tracking Silicon Alley firm that was also being pursued by Microsoft. It's the most money Google has been prepa

A couple of weeks ago I stopped by at our publisher's offices (SYS-CON Media) and they showed me our Flex book with the correct cover, but all pages were blank. Yesterday, I've got an email from them with the words, 'Yakov your book is ready, stop by and pick it up'. The guys from prod

Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today a definitive agreement to acquire DoubleClick Inc., a global leader in digital marketing technology and services, for US$3.1 billion in cash from San Francisco-based private equity firm Hellman & Friedman along with JMI Equity and management.

SYS-CON's original story reported: 'Google, which is reportedly building its own DoubleClick-like ad-serving mechanism, is now supposed to be trying to buy DoubleClick since Microsoft was reported to be in talks with the online media buyer. The competition is supposed to make any deal

Google, which is reportedly building its own DoubleClick-like ad-serving mechanism, is now supposed to be trying to buy DoubleClick since Microsoft was reported to be in talks with the online media buyer. The competition is supposed to make any deal more expensive. Last week they were

For a while there it looked like there was something Google couldn't find, namely its own three-foot pet python Kaiser, which it managed lose somewhere in its 300,000-square-foot New York City offices. The maintenance staff finally found the little guy safe and sound and he was sent ho

A secret server farm project being sponsored by Google in India will require an enormous investment, according to a report filed earlier in the week at industry commentator's John C. Dvorak's blogsite. The server farm will reportedly deliver an entire googlebyte of storage when complet

Microsoft has combined its search and AdCenter online advertising operations, units that are supposed to compete against Google, and named the head of its Dynamics CRM line Satya Nadella to run it, reporting to Kevin Johnson. This after Microsoft reduced its guidance for revenue growth

The Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend that Comcast, the largest American cable company and the second-largest provider of high-speed Internet access, is unhappy with its search deal with Google and is talking to Microsoft about substituting. The paper says Comcast, which sh

You've of course heard that Viacom, which owns MTV, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon, among others, has sued Google and its unprofitable but pricey $1.65 billion YouTube acquisition for damages of upwards of a billion dollars and an injunction. It charges them with 'massive intentional c

Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales has commercial designs and that three-year-old for-profit ad-based Wikia Inc venture of his is aiming to build an open source search engine to take on Google. He wants 5% of the market according to reports out of Tokyo following a speech he gave. Wales app

dtSearch announced Version 7.4 of the dtSearch product line. dtSearch products instantly search terabytes of text across a desktop, network, Internet or Intranet. The dtSearch product line also lets developers add dtSearch?s terabyte indexer search functionality and file format support

Rumor has it that Google is interested in ThinkFree, the HaanSoft-owned, ad-supported, Java-based, very Microsoft-like, Microsoft-compatible online office suite. It sent its YouTube acquisition folks in to talk to the Korean concern lately. At least that's what HaanSoft's CEO has been

Google Thursday planted its flag on the shores of Microsoft's Fortress Office, finally opening up shop to sell the anticipated commercial version of its comparatively rudimentary web-based productivity software, aiming it at the big enterprise, the source of much of Microsoft's power a

SYS-CON Events (www.sys-con.com) announced today that AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West (www.ajaxworld.com) willtake place on September 24-26, 2007, at the Santa Clara Convention Centerin Santa Clara, California. The event is expected to attract over 2,000 developers, architects, I

Google's threat to Office is supposed to be unleashed 'soon' according to a story in Monday's Boston Globe. Google VP and general manager of the enterprise David Girouard in town giving a speech to the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council said that Google's packaging up a suite