A portal is a web site that serves as an all-purpose entry point to the Internet. Designed with rich navigation structures, portals provide easy-to-use interfaces to access resources on the web and the content contained on the site itself. Portal...

PORTALS. A portal is any gateway or doorway, insofar as it elicits ritual actions or becomes a locus of concentrated architectural symbolism. It is a space framed to call attention to spatial transition; thus it has characteristics of both a path and a...

A web portal is a site that functions as a point of access to information on the World Wide Web. Portals present information from diverse sources in a unified way. Aside from the search engine standard, web portals offer other services such as news,...

If the mobile Web ad market ever takes off, Google and Yahoo are poised to cash in.On the heels of a new study that predicts more consumers will surf the Web on wireless devices this year, executives at Google GOOG and Yahoo YHOO say they...

Sina Corp., China's most popular Web portal, said Thursday its fourth-quarter profits fell 15 percent due to higher expenses and a drop in revenues for mobile services.Sina reported earnings of $11.7 million, or 20 cents per share, down from $13.8 million, or 24 cents per...

Hearst is changing its Internet strategy to cash in on online video.Within a few months, Hearst, one of the nation's oldest publishers, will revamp the Web sites of eight of its largest magazines to include video content and TV-like ads.Hearst is joining a crowded field...

Pressured by shareholders unhappy at Yahoo's failure to gain ground against Google, Yahoo late Monday said co-founder Jerry Yang would replace Terry Semel as CEO -- leading some analysts to predict the Web portal will be sold or merge with another company. Yahoo shares were...