Mountain View, California — Striving to bring all its products under one roof and unify its brand, global search engine giant Google is planning to say goodbye to some of their non-Google names, for the public launch of Google+. Two of its most popular properties reportedly getting a new name are Picasa and Blogger, Mashable […]

Google is on the way to being a NFC trend-setter in the U.S. with its NFC enabled Google+ app. Although NFC is used often in countries like Japan, it’s taking a bit longer for the U.S. to catch up to the trend. Singapore-based software developer Ridzuan Ashim first spotted the NFC integration on the Nexus […]

Google has issued an ultimatum of sorts – if you are using Google Profile, you have uptil 31st of July to make it public if it is not already so, else Google will delete it. Google’s official help article on Public Profiles reads: “The purpose of Google Profiles is to enable you to manage your […]

Micro-blogging site Twitter has been valued at a whopping $ 7 billion these days. The Wall Street Journal reported, “As Deal Journal colleague Amir Efrati just reported, a fresh fundraising round for Twitter just valued the company as high as $7 billion.”

CEO of Social Media Network, Mark Zuckerburg seems to be making it a habit of being at the No. 1 position. Not only does his Facebook occupy the premier position in the social media, he himself has now occupied the top spot on the new social network Google+. 

San Francisco — Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc. have been slammed with a lawsuit accusing the two tech giants for allegedly violating the a Louisiana company’s patent covering mapping technology that helps computer users see locations in three dimensions, according to Bloomberg.

New York — Twitter is on a shopping spree, and it seems that the popular micro-blogging outfit will soon be offering more services to publishers using the messaging service, as yesterday it announced that it has acquired social media analytics startup BackType, according to a blog post published by BackType today.

Los Angeles — Popular US online video streaming service Hulu has discontinued its Facebook Connect feature from its website after some users saw the profile photo and email address of other users instead of their own when connecting their accounts, according to Znet reports.

“On late Tuesday the Twitter account of PayPal was hacked by an apparent disgruntled customer who used it to complain about the service in a series of angry tweets on the service,” says a PCWorld post .

In a bid to quell privacy fears, software giant Microsoft has released the source code for software it uses to collect Wi-Fi data.