Punchd, a smartphone-based loyalty card business, has been acquired by Google for an amount believed to be more than $10 million.

Google has announced very important and potentially costly changes for merchants who submit their feeds to Google Product Search. As of September 22, 2011…

September 13-15, 2011 – New York City Attend SMX East and get expert insights and real-world-proven tactics that yield results instantly. Take a look at the just posted agenda, developed by the editorial team of Search Engine Land. SMX East’s multi-track program includes paid search, SEO, social…

If your company is serious about getting involved in social networking, there’s no doubt that the announcement of Google+ created a lot of excitement and even more questions. What will the business-facing elements of the service look like?

Russian search engine Yandex has launched an English-language version of Yandex.Webmaster, its suite of webmaster tools. The service can be reached at webmaster.yandex.com. If you’ve used the Google and/or Bing webmaster portals, Yandex’s will be familiar to you

Google’s powerful ad network may be in for another rush of expansion thanks to a service known to Google insiders as “DDP.” DDP is speculated to work as an ad targeting service that helps advertisers find niche audiences. What Is DDP?

Kelly from Google posted a technical document explaining how you can know the URL of the source image Google crawled via Google Images.

Google+, which has been in field trial mode since June 28, hit its first major bug over the weekend: Users were receiving duplicate email notifications, with Google sometimes sending dozens of redundant messages for a single on-site action. The ..

Hashtags are the world’s chat room. Where else can you hop on the phone or computer and have an instant, passionate conversation about something that shares a hashtag? When it comes to primetime television, current events, or sports events like the Olympics or the Super Bowl, hashtags allow anyone…

At Intel’s first Social Media Conference in Portland this week, 100+ Intel social media practitioners from all over the world came together with about 20 industry subject matter experts to share and engage social media best practices. One of those speakers was  Lionel Menchaca , the Chief Blogger at Dell and a real pioneer in the world of blogging and social media for the enterprise.