http://www.searchengineworld.com/tech/ en-us http://www.searchengineworld.com/gfx/wmwbutton.gif http://www.searchengineworld.com 109 33 /tech/3459219.htm San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. has raised $35 million in third round funding to help expand its popular free micro-blogging service, in an agreement with Institutional Venture Partners and Benchmark Capital that closed Thursday, according to Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. /tech/3459195.htm San Francisco-based Twitter Inc. envisions a future day when its popular free micro-blogging service will begin imposing usage fees for commercial businesses, according to company co-founder Biz Stone. /tech/3459030.htm WebmasterWorld's PubCon, one of the most historic of all webmaster conferences, successfully concluded its biggest grand celebration yet of all things search-related on November 14, 2008 under the bright lights of the conference capital of the world that is Las Vegas, where the leading search and Internet marketing gurus gathered for four exciting days amidst throngs of live-bloggers feverishly trying to Twitter and blog as much of a PubCon-record speaker agenda that topped 85 sessions and six simultaneous tracks as was humanly possible. /tech/3459003.htm Microsoft's Internet Explorer, the most popular Web browser since 1998, has lost more than 10 percent of its market share since December 2007, while Mozilla's rival Firefox browser gained 27.3 percent during 2008, according to new figures from Net Applications. /tech/3458976.htm The OpenID Foundation, a legal entity set up as the steward for the OpenID Web identification system that seeks to make it easier for people to manage usernames and passwords for multiple online destinations by using a single sign-on, has announced the names of seven newly elected community board members. /tech/3458970.htm Google, Microsoft and Apple have been sued by Cygnus Systems for allegedly infringing on the company's patent covering preview images of computer files, according to a complaint filed Tuesday in the United States district court of Arizona. /tech/3458811.htm WebmasterWorld's PubCon conference successfully wrapped up Friday in Las Vegas after four days of more than 85 sessions. SearchEngineWorld presents a selection of links to a variety of PubCon 2008 coverage. /tech/3458794.htm WebmasterWorld's PubCon, the historic grand-daddy of all webmaster conferences stands poised to kick off its biggest grand celebration yet of all things search-related beginning next Tuesday, November 11. /tech/3458608.htm Visa, the largest payment network in the United States, will provide certain online banking features to users of mobile phones using Internet search giant Google's Android operating system and certain phones from mobile manufacturer Nokia beginning this year. /tech/3458509.htm In an effort to draw more consumers and advertisers, Time Warner Inc.'s Internet services group AOL has refashioned its homepage to pull in information from third party sites including email previews from Google and Yahoo.