The Pickup Artists of Networking

Spend too much time in the world of superlinked social site users, and they start to look like the seedy pickup artists in last year's book The Game.

Google, Yahoo, And MSN To Vie For MySpace

MySpace, the dominant social networking site, would like to partner with one of the Web's leading search engine companies. So said Peter Chermin, the chief operating officer of News Corp., which owns MySpace.

PayPal To Google: Bring It On

PayPal President Jeff Jordan said his company is ready and waiting for any competing payment services that Google may launch. The GBuy system is supposed to come out on June 28, according to a note from RBC analyst Jordan Rohan.

Google Poised For Nielsen Raidings

Google is a media company - a dangerous one for conventional players. Mountain View's next potential rival: Nielsen Media Research, the audience measurement company that has held a virtual monopoly in the sector for decades. And it shouldn't be surpirsing. Google's MO is information collection and research.