Microsoft announced this morning it was making its largest-ever acquisition, a $6 billion purchase of online advertising company aQuantive Inc. The move is a forceful, much needed bid to gain some solid footing in an industry dominated by rival Google. According to Microsoft, online advertising represents a $40 billion opportunity that will grow 20% per […]

At the Where 2.0 Conference next week, geographic visualization company FortiusOne plans to announce the opening of GeoCommons, a social mapping site and public data repository. Originally scheduled for launch in February, GeoCommons took longer than expected. “We got more ambitious with the platform,” said company founder and CEO Sean Gorman. GeoCommons now includes 2

A Ukranian hacker known as “MustLive” has announced plans for a Month of Search Engine Bugs project in June 2007. The purpose of this Month of Bugs is a demonstration of real state with security in search engines, which are the most popular sites in Internet. To let users of search engines and web community