At the ongoing Web 2.0 Summit at San Francisco, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo revealed some gigantic figures for the micro-blogging site at a speaker dinner on Monday. He said that Twitter now gets 250 million tweets per day, a 177% rise from 90 million tweets per day in September 2010 and 100 million tweets at […]

Yahoo might be in a situation, which shows signs and symptoms of the Silicon Valley Internet giant craving for benefits to fall in its favor. But it seems like its far from reality, as yet another Yahoo executive is replaced. Yahoo CTO Raymie Stata stepped down as CTO of Yahoo. The company even confirmed the […]

Safety is a point, which has been a roadblock for many online giants such as Facebook, and Google definitely knows about it. The search engine giant has opted to go ‘+1’ with the launch of its first online safety campaign. Google is teaming up with the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) for the cause. The company […]

YouTube, the world’s largest online video sharing community, is out with yet another announcement, which relates to the company launching a localized service for the Philippines. The location settings, placed at the bottom of the YouTube homepage, now has this option, which would allow users to go to the localized Philippine YouTube site. YouTube, with […]

  Google makes things count and it even has decent knowledge that its video portal, YouTube, gets 800 million visitors a month. Out of the said visitor count, a big chunk has their focus on music videos. The search engine giant seems to build on the preference on the viewers and accordingly attract more views […]

Flipboard has a number of events flipping on its board as it has roped in ‘USA Today’. With this, it now brings the national newspaper on the iOS app. Surprisingly, there are signs indicating that the content of the newspaper would be delivered 24/7 to one’s iPad, completely free to access.

New Zealand — Customarily, when Microsoft is in the news, it’s usually because it is gobbling up a smaller competitor. But today, it is the other way round, as the New Zealand’s largest software merchant Auckland-based Orion Health’s wholly-owned subsidiary Orion Health Asia Pacific has endorsed a deal to acquire Microsoft’s Hospital Information System (HIS) […]

San Francisco — Though webOS products have been somewhat suspended going forward, there are still plenty of people out there who have been using any of the webOS smartphones likely ran into the issues with the Maps app. Now, HP seems to be interested in setting it right, as it has released the much-improved TouchPad […]

New York — Performance is more important than the loads of add-ons that can be used to customize Firefox when it comes to Android devices, Mozilla said. Users of the Firefox browser in Android phones may soon have to live with fewer customization options as Mozilla is leaning more towards improving startup, responsiveness and memory […]

Facebook has once again been sued as Brooke Rutledge of Mississippi even alleges that the social networking giant violates federal wiretap laws. It can be rightly said that Facebook and violations go hand in hand. Of late, the social networking site has been sued in multiple states, which was to track its users even after […]