Facebook has been blocking a tool intended to let people extract contact information their friends have shared with them, the tool’s developer Mohamed Mansour said today–but he’s working on a way to evade Facebook’s restrictions. Cnet posted Mohamed Mansour, developer of the Facebook Friend Exporter tool , a Chrome extension that automates the data extraction […]

Within a few days of launching Google+, search engine giant Google has submitted a Google+ App to the Apple App Store and is awaiting approval, said a Venture Beat post on Monday. Google+ is the company’s new social network platform, launched at the end of June.

New York — Popular online retail giant Amazon.com, on Monday disclosed that it has decided to acquire The Book Depository, a UK-based top online bookseller that catalogs more than 6 million titles and shipping to more than 100 countries.

Shanghai — Software monopolist Microsoft Corp. and Chinese web giant Baidu Inc. agreed to bolster their Internet-search partnership in China, on Monday said it had inked an agreement with Microsoft to provide English-language search results generated by the software giant’s Bing search engine, as the companies seek to gain users from Google Inc. in the […]

You can now send private message to celebrities and popular brands through Twitter. To be able to do this all you need to do is follow them. Now, is your chance to tell Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber just how much you love them.

Mountain View, California — Diverting a wholehearted attention to its recently unveiled social media network, Google+, the search engine giant Google has temporarily disabled its once-acclaimed Realtime Search function, which gave results that included real-time updates from Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed and a bevy of other social networking sites. Apparently, Google has now pulled its powerful […]

Spirits are high at search engine giant Google. “On Thursday, brewer Heineken confirmed it had signed a multi-million Euro advertising contract with Google, becoming the first major brand to strike a global deal with the search engine,” reported Wall Street Journal.

Twitter’s depiction of tweets. (Credit: Twitter) It is a micro-blogging site yet its figures are of a macro size. Twitter in its blog post on Thursday said, “Halfway through 2011, users on Twitter are now sending 200 million Tweets per day.” Juxtapose this with the 2 million tweets that were sent per day in 2009 […]

It was reported that Google+ mimicked Facebook in its focus and now the Search Engine Giant’s new feature can be made to mimic the look of the Social Media Network. (Before Image) (Image credit: Mashable.com)   (After Image) (Image Credit: ibtimes.com) A Redmond Pie post says, “ If you were lucky enough to have received […]

Facebook is always looking to build its presence in new markets. Their latest target is the TV. “The social media network wants to make the TV more social by improving how you find your content and how you connect your friends around that content,”said a ZDNet post. Andy Mitchell SVP of Strategic Partner Development at […]