YouTube is set to premiere Luc Besson's new movie, the first time a film debuts both online and in theaters.The move by YouTube is part of its strategy to boost ad sales and reach profitability. The Google owned property will

The number of American households that play computer or video games has risen to 68 percent, a three percent increase over 2008, according to the Entertainment Software Association, a group that represents U.S. computer and video game publishers."This is the

Today Microsoft launched a new Bing feature for travel, appropriately called . Microsoft says that 45% of people use a search engine to select a flight or hotel. This is the main inspiration for Bing Travel. Bing Travel conducted a

Yahoo is suing the NFL Players Association, arguing that it should not have to pay additional royalties to use player's statistics and images in its fantasy football games because the information is publicly available.Yahoo filed the suit June 1 in

Companies that have made it this far should feel hopeful about the future; we may finally be coming out of the recession. Not everything's back to normal, though - just ask General Motors - and so if you're in the

Intel has announced today that it is acquiring software-maker for $884 million. Wind River makes embedded devices.Embedded systems and mobile devices include smart phones, mobile Internet devices, other consumer electronics (CE) devices, in-car "info-tainment" systems and other automotive areas, networking

Update: The.Original Article: Facebook announced today that it has posted a draft of its to better explain how financial transactions will take place. The terms were created as a means to govern purchases made through the site. Facebook is using

Digg has announced plans to roll out a new advertising platform called Digg Ads. This platform will give users more control over which ads are displayed on the popular site. It's not ready to go just yet. The pilot will

The Monster Employment index, which is a monthly gauge of U.S. online job demand, went down 29% in the past year. It actually went down a couple points after rising slightly in April. It might not be all bad news

Google has introduced new navigations improvements for Google Maps Street View. These improvements are collectively being referred to as Smart Navigation. The main improvement is the ability to navigate by simply double clicking on a place or object you want

Abby Johnson of WebProNews had a nice chat with FindMeFaster's Matt Van Wagner about PPC campaign strategies and ad copy at the SMX Advanced conference in Seattle this week. For one, they discussed how to get a good quality score

Update: Microsoft Bing General Manager Mike Nichols has addressed the situation in a blog post. He :So for right now, we wanted to let people know that you can add "adlt=strict" to the end of a query and no matter

Microsoft has set up a YouTube channel for its new search engine Bing. There are a variety of Bing-related videos here, including a few commercials. Here are two of them: I have to admit I don't mind the commercials. I

Jonathan Miller, the new chief digital officer for News Corp., wants to see Hulu become a pay site. In fact, Miller thinks Web companies are going to have to find a way to charge for what they used to give

Update: Google has mysteriously added a little promotion to its homepage for "new" gmail voice and video chat. This original article is from November, so unless I'm missing something, it's not exactly a new featue. I guess they just want

A certain search giant might as well get it over with and release some sort of product mashup called Google Election. In the meantime, though, YouTube and Google Moderator have come back into the spotlight as important tools in a

Facebook's convinced yet another important Googler to join its ranks. Grady Burnett, who held the title "Director, Online Sales & Operations" while working for the search giant in Ann Arbor, will now be in charge of Facebook's global online and

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a "terms of service" tracker for Facebook, Google, eBay, and other popular websites.The goal of the EFF's "TOSBacK" is to give users a real-time feed of changes and updates to more than three-dozen

You could learn a lot from a hashtag. If you search that on Twitter, you'll find all kinds of tweets from those in attendance at Microsoft's Bing Search Summit. It is interesting to see some of the things people are

At the SMX Advanced conference in Seattle this week, WebProNews discussed keyword research with 's Taylor Pratt. He discusses his "recipe" for it. Do you have a keyword research recipe? . The most critical ingredient in Taylor's recipe is adding