NY Lawmakers Approve Internet Tax

A new bill called the "Amazon Tax" has been approved by New York Legislators and is now awaiting the approval of New York governor David Patterson.If Patterson signs the bill into law it will require online retailers, such as Amazon to collect sales tax on items shipped to New York. The bill is estimated to generate $50 million in tax revenue for the state.

Social Networks, YouTube Led UK Searches Last Year

It's hard to believe data about 2007 is still being released, but a new Hitwise report is interesting, nonetheless.  It seems that social networks and YouTube were quite popular last year, with related terms dominating a list of the top ten UK searches.

EveryZing Rolls Up Ramp To Universal Search

The core EveryZing business of speech to text technology added a new component, called RAMP, to its search and optimization technologies for indexing multimedia content and making it available to search crawlers.

Blogger’s Product Manager Moves On

Blogger has repeatedly been ranked among Google's top properties, and now one of the people who got it there is gone.  Blogger's product manager, Eric Case, spent his last day at Google on Friday.

Google, Salesforce Tie Up With Apps

In a move seen as a "take that Microsoft" deal, Google and Salesforce padded out a current collaboration deal by integrating its Google Apps within Salesforce.