New York — Globally popular micro-blogging outfit Twitter on its official Twitter account earlier this week tweeted the news that the company will henceforth send an email notification when a users’ tweet is either favorited or retweeted by someone the user follows.

Mountain View, California — After countless rumors, reporters in New York are dusting off their outdoor clothes for a Google “partner event” which will take the wraps off a mobile payment system on Thursday that will let shoppers wave their smartphones in front of a small reader at the checkout counter to pay instead of […]

Sunnyvale, California — Prominent Internet pioneer Yahoo, which introduced the beta offering of its online e-mail service in October, on Tuesday announced that it is fully geared up with a final version of its revamped Yahoo Mail service that it will begin to roll out to its 284 million users worldwide “in the coming weeks,” […]

Mountain View, California — Well, that sure was an intelligent move. Global search engine titan, Google Inc., has acquired a Seattle-based Sparkbuy, a search engine for consumer electronics devices, less than six months after its debut, according to a note on the Sparkbuy website.

New York — Closing in on 10 million users, Foursquare on Monday announced at the TechCrunch’s Disrupt 2011, that London-based mobile phone manufacturer INQ has selected Foursquare’s location service to complement social media networking-focused phone.

Founded in 1999, Flatworld has its headquarters in Bangalore, the home of business offshore outsourcing processes in India. The inspiration behind their name is explained by Thomas Freidman in his book, “The world is flat”. It is not a throwback to the dark ages but instead he explains that all the knowledge centers around the […]

San Francisco — In an attempt to lure users from other chat service, Google and AOL have advanced their instant messaging partnership to a new level with absolute interoperability among AIM, Gmail and Google Talk.

Mountain View, California — A bonus to the internet content providing crowd, which is slightly later than had been planned last year, but soon you will be able to access your Google Docs files as the global search engine giant Google over the weekend announced that is all set to revamp Google Docs and Google […]

Redmond, Washington — While much of the social media world is still bustling about LinkedIn’s IPO, but the popular social media Facebook and Microsoft on Friday formally unveiled an alliance to unearth child porn at the world’s leading online social network, in an attempt to drive pedophiles away from its service, Redmond announced in a […]

Mountain View, California — In a bid to elevate its social profile, and just nineteen months after it originally introduced the feature in North America, Google on Thursday unveiled plans via its new official Search Blog that it is rolling out Social Search in 19 more languages, increasing its reach to more countries around the […]