Striving to retain its supremacy, global search engine leader Google Inc., on Wednesday expanded its social offerings, taking on Facebook’s “Like” Button with a button of its own, the “+1” Button, empowering users to personally endorse search results and Web pages, its latest attempt to… Read More

Farewell QuickBar, we hardly knew ye. After a rather bumpy beginning, microblogging site Twitter on Thursday said it has abolished the “QuickBar” from its iPhone app, which provided users with updates on trending topics, to the delight of a loud and passionate group of… Read More

Global search engine behemoth Google Inc., has confirmed that its senior vice president for product management Jonathan Rosenberg, who has been at the company since 2002 plans to quit, a move that may give freer rein to new CEO as he attempts to reorganize the company… Read More

A couple weeks ago, the social media network Facebook unfurled Check-Ins To Events, and as promised, the company has released a new version of its application that gives users full capability to check in to events via the iPhone and their mobile-based touch site… Read More

Thriving with 200 million people on Twitter, there is no dearth of accounts to follow. On Monday, the popular micro-blogging network Twitter announced a new search feature that will help users find accounts that are related to their interests with an updated “Who to Follow” page and a new… Read More

For years Google has perfectly made it easy for advertisers to fill-up its popular AdWords treasure chest with money, but, if you ever face a problem with your AdWords account, then you know what a glorious pain there is for advertisers to get answers to their questions. Finally, the search engine giant Google has announced that it is adding free telephone support… Read More

Striving to promote the use of social media network in the newsroom, Facebook has unleashed a new media Page called, Journalists on Facebook, which is intended to be a resource page to help journalists adopt the social media network as a reporting tool and better connect with their… Read More

Advancing cautiously to avoid the blunders that have plagued Google’s Street View service in Germany, Microsoft announced plans to roll-out a similar service via its popular Bing Maps dubbed as “Streetside” in the country next month… Read More

In its quest to lure its audience to its the world’s most popular video sharing website YouTube, search engine giant Google Inc. is working on a major overhaul of YouTube as it tries to position itself as a more traditional channel-oriented site, and will spend $100 million to create… Read More

Popular microblogging site Twitter has recently refreshed the look of its website, but apparently seems to be grappling with technical glitches on Tuesday, disabling a new home page as well as a “Trends” feature and the site had to temporary switch to an old version… Read More

As far as German competition authorities extend its approval, it seems that Google will soon be in part responsible for powering the lights and computers at a number of German homes. The Silicon Valley Internet powerhouse Google on Thursday announced its very first clean energy plans… Read More

Software monopolist Microsoft’s latest effort to bring Bing to the masses — today unveiled the new Bing for iPad, the company’s first app for Apple’s tablet. And it is gorgeous and well-designed, which one analyst dubbed it a “killer app” that beats Google’s “hands down.”… Read More