Yahoo! reports online advertising boom

Yahoo has reported record third-quarter revenues, with a growth in online advertising of 46 per cent from last year. The Internet giant's financial results beat Wall Street analysts' estimates by $14 million dollars, giving the company a revenue of $932 million. Their predictions were based on revenue after the deduction of fees to sites like Microsoft's MSN that display Yahoo's search ads. ...more

Apple finds open source turning sour

Apple's relationship with the open source community has come under renewed attack after reports on the Web that KHTML developers are unhappy with the way the direction that Apple has taken with Safari. KHTML is an open source rendering engine - the software that takes the HTML and Javascript code that makes up Web pages and turns it into something readable on a computer screen. Apple chose it, rather than the Mozilla Gecko engine, when it decided to develop its own browser, namely Safari, which was released in January 2003. ...more

Beeb bundles multimedia into search

The BBC has added the ability to search audio and visual content to its relaunched and reinvigorated search engine for its website. Visitors to bbc.co. ...more

Drug body rolls out info site on clinical trials

International pharmaceutical companies have launched a new website designed to allay fears over drug safety. The website - www.ifpma. ...more

And also today (21-September-2001), for the record...

Here, in brief, are some of the day's other stories. A Tiny enterprise Tiny Computers has launched a new division to specifically address the corporate market. The move comes on the back of signing a corporate agreement with Avon Cosmetics. ...more