YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have been in news of late for their interests in buying Delicious, a social bookmarking service created in 2003 by Yahoo. Both Hurley and Chen have shown their capabilities in turning websites into Internet gold. With their YouTube sellout, they did prove their worth as Google had paid […]

Facebook music was earlier rumored to be out, but it wasn’t known as to whom would the social networking giant partner for the said service. Now its leaked that there would be at least seven launch partners joining hands with Facebook. According to web developer Yvo Schaap, several companies would be in partnership with Facebook […]

Germany — In an attempt to defuse discord, Mountain View, Calif.-based search engine behemoth Google Inc. and the Hamburg privacy regulator signed a pact last weekend to limit an internet technology that collects and utilizes user information for its Analytics websites traffic monitoring tool in Europe, Bloomberg reports.

Los Angeles — In an attempt to expand its horizon, social media giant Facebook is becoming more user-friendly with Twitter as it tries to step up its game and defend against the growth of full-featured Google+, over the weekend announced that it now allow its users to update their Twitter accounts on their very own […]

Google has worked hard on Chrome and it looks like finally the efforts are paying off. Chrome 14, is the newly released update for Google Chrome and the reviews say it that it can be worthy of being called as the best Web browser for any operating system available today. There was a comparison which […]

Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group, which is critical of Google’s tracking of users to collect personal information about them, is going to try and embarrass the search engine giant’s CEO, Erich Schmidt, when he testifies before the Congress on September 21. The main purpose of Schmidt’s appearance will be to answer questions about the company’s […]

    Google vs Apple vs Samsung vs Microsoft … the patent wars in recent times have overwhelmed the technological world, and, it is hoped that the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, which was signed into law by President Obama, on Friday, will provide a solution to such unproductive and time-consuming litigations.

The Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights will hold antitrust-related hearings on Google coming Wednesday at 2:00 p.m. The proceeding is related to the wide-ranging FTC antitrust investigation, but still is separate from the said investigation. The hearing is titled as “The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition?” The […]

Samsung has finally hit back at Apple by filing an appeal against a German court’s ban on sales of its Galaxy tablet computers. Samsung went on to accuse Apple of patent infringement in Australia. This would only deepen the dispute between the two smartphone and tablet manufacturers. The global battle has moved a step ahead […]

Micro-blogging giant, Twitter Inc. on Friday announced that its board size has cut short from nine earlier to seven now as directors, venture capitalists Bijan Sabet and Fred Wilson would be departing from the board list. A replacement for the two would be soon looked into. The departing duo were two of Twitter’s earliest investors […]