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Search Engine News Updates: March 01-04-2011

Welcome to another weekly edition of Search and Social updates — packed with announcement, alliance, disputes and axing down services or products, from Silicon Valley’s tech leaders like Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, Bing and others, as well as many more interesting Search Engine Optimization news from across the web…
Facebook Plans To Proceed With Address, Phone-Number Sharing Feature

Despite criticism from privacy advocates, users and even congressmen, popular social media network Facebook Inc., resolutely moving forward with an aborted roll-out of a controversial feature that allows third-party websites and applications request addresses and mobile-phone numbers… Read More

SocialEyes Unveils Group Video Chatting On Facebook

Facebook fans who wished there were truly another way to connect with friends [face to face] on computer screens can now rejoice, as a new start-up called SocialEyes on Monday debuted a service that lets people… Read More

Google Acquires German Security Firm Zynamics

In an attempt to secure both its users and some of the company’s various products, the search engine behemoth Google has just acquired a small German security firm called Zynamics for its software analysis tools… Read More

Facebook Snaffles Group Messaging Service Beluga

Popular social media giant Facebook on Tuesday snapped up yet another recently established start-up called Beluga, the one looking to command the suddenly hot again group messaging market, and founded by former Google employees which allows users to send group messages to… Read More

Skyfire 3.0 For iPhone App Gets Cozier With Facebook And Twitter

Skyfire, the first mobile browser that rose to fame last year for devising an app that brings Flash to Android, has just unveiled an enhanced version for the iPhone browser that tightly integrates the Facebook experience into the app and content recommendations and more… Read More

Facebook Bolsters Comments Widget For More Personalized Chats

The Palo Alto, California, social media networking giant Facebook on Tuesday unhinged its mighty jaws and consuming up the entire Internet with the blog announcement of an updated Comments Box plug-in for website publishers with more granular controls for moderating discussions and to… Read More

Microsoft: Bing “Deals” Scours Groupon, LivingSocial, Find Deals Nearby

Software monopolist Microsoft is not one to be left too far behind, responding to the online coupon frenzy on Thursday, unleashed Bing Deals, a clearinghouse of sorts for all of the deals that hundreds of deals sites offer on a daily basis, both on its desktop and mobile versions that gives thousands of unique offers spanning 14,000 cities and towns in the U.S… Read More