Back in February, Google embellished Latitude, the search engine giant’s location-sharing mobile app with check-in features, and over the weekend, the company has expanded its Latitude check-in process nationwide for the iPhone and Android devices, giving users the ability to unlock… Read More

Facebook the world’s most popular social media networking site, after seven years of concentrating on the cool the free ride is over, as Facebook is finally ready to cash in — is now gearing up to unveil a new wave of highly targeted adverts using data uploaded onto its users’ pages… Read More

Software major Microsoft in the past has made plenty of apps for Apple’s iOS, but, Redmond Vole on Monday stepped into the mobile photo-sharing ring with the launch of Photosynth for Apple’s iOS — that is, for iPhones, iPads and iPod Touches, which takes a collection of regular… Read More

Nearly three years ago, striving to please its vast audience, Yahoo appeared as a defender of privacy by stating it would retain detailed records of its users’ search queries for just 90 days. The company on Friday reversed course on its data retention policy, stating that it will hold on to users’ search engine queries for at least 18 months… Read More

Software behemoth Microsoft on Monday opened the floodgates on its app store to support its long-gestating cloud-based Office 365 software and is now offering the suite as a public beta for anyone to try out, as the tech titan works to fend off challenges from its arch rival Google… Read More

In news that should surprise no one–Finally, Yahoo on Monday informed Buzz users that the the company will shut down its ill-fated story-sharing service Buzz on Thursday, April 21… Read More

Not content with playing home to more than 500 million-plus of your family barbecue photos or updates about cats, popular social media Facebook fans who have been chatting and friending each other are now able to make live voice calls via Facebook Chat across the world — with a service provided by Natick-based company Vivox Inc… Read More

Found an error with the placement of your favorite pizza place on Google Maps? Well, now you can fix it yourself, as the search engine giant Google on Tuesday, invited armature cartographers to refine the U.S. map for Google Maps and Google Earth, with its online Google Map Maker,… Read More

Earlier this month, popular micro-blogging social networking–Twitter, just after posting and then removing a new homepage, Twitter is back at it again with a fresh slick look and strikingly similar to Facebook, but apparently this time comes with fewer bugs… Read More

Rebuffed by daily-deal site Groupon, Google this week officially commenced a beta test of its daily-deals service for delivering users hugely discounted offers for local businesses, allowing users in New York City, the Bay Area and Portland to sign up for upcoming deals… Read More

Just early this month being updated to version 3.4 — adding the Unfriending option — Facebook for iPhone has been revised once again, this time with a minor version number for iPhone 3.4.1 and Facebook for Android 1.5.3 released this week, both now allows users to… Read More

While Google was engaged with the recent launch of Google Offers, it looks like Online coupon service Groupon has grabbed the opportunity to poach away one of the search engine giant’s “Margo Georgiadis,” a top sales executive at Google, and making her their new chief operating officer, as the company began rolling out a new service aimed directly at… Read More

In an effort to promote royalty-free video technology as well as to improve the quality of its video streaming service YouTube over the Internet, search engine giant Google plans to help separate the Web from H.264 video, YouTube has begun transcoding all uploaded videos into WebM, the open media file format backed by its parent company, Google… Read More

Global search engine behemoth Google has done a lot in the past to make Google News more personalized and constantly strives to stay fresh in age of social media age. For the past few months, the company has been engaged in testing new news layouts in the wild, and over the weekend announced that the home page is now more personalized for those who… Read More

In a surprising turn of events, it was business as normal on the Web in March, but more than any other website, around 212 million Americans users/web surfers in the United States swarmed the Internet portal Yahoo, according to comScore discovered in its latest Media Metrix survey… Read More

In an attempt to bolster the appeal of Bing to users of every stripe, Microsoft’s Bing has announced expanded options for earning credits from its Bing Rewards Program, out of its walled garden and into its homepage on every modern browser in the US… Read More

In a bid to spread its innovation, it seems like MapQuest is prepping a massive management shakeup. The wholly owned subsidiary of AOL Inc., over the weekend announced that it has hired an ex-Googler to run Mapquest out in Denver, as a VP of Product Management: Vijay R. Bangaru, who is the third executive hire in the last three months… Read More

Struggling Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. on Monday took a courageous step, announced that it has acquired IntoNow, a budding Palo Alto start-up that makes an iOS app that enables users to “Check-In” to films or television shows they are watching with their friends, in its continuing drive to boost its social media credentials… Read More

As the online daily deals market is becoming crowded by the day, popular social media titan Facebook on Tuesday, finally launched its long-awaited deals service in five cities that will allow Facebook users to buy coupons for everything from a five-person banana split to a… Read More

The future of social bookmarking service Delicious is no longer in danger. Delicious, whose future had been in question since Yahoo announced its intention to divest itself of it last year, will live on as part of a new Internet company run by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen… Read More