San Francisco — Hot on the heels of their BlackBerry Bold Touch announcement, and as Research In Motion’s BlackBerry World conference reeled to life Monday morning in Orlando, RIM announced a forthcoming dedicated Facebook app along with a video chatting application for the BlackBerry PlayBook, both due later this month.

Sunnyvale, California — Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc., on Monday announced that it has recruited Jai Singh, whose hiring from CNET Networks benefited The Huffington Post gain journalism credibility, as editor-in-chief for the Yahoo! Media Network, recruiting him from the Huffington Post Media Group.

Seoul — In a startling turn of events at Google’s Korean operations, South Korean police on Tuesday raided search engine giants Seoul office under suspicion to probe whether the search firm used its mobile phone advertising platform AdMob to illegally collect private data, officials said.

Mountain View, California — Global search engine giant, Google on Thursday unfurled video chatting capabilities into Google Talk for Android smartphones, and unlike Apple’s Face Time, it works over Wi-Fi and 3G/4G, as part of version 2.3.4 of the mobile operating system.

Mumbai, India — In an attempt to tap into the bubbling daily deals market, Rediff.com, India’s oldest Internet portal, last Tuesday jumped into the coupon-based on-line shopping arena by unveiling a group buying site dubbed as “Deal Ho Jaye!,” which works like newspaper classifieds, allowing customers discounts at local businesses, in a similar fashion as […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo Mail, one of the largest web-based email services, which boasts more than 250 million users worldwide, suffered a partial outage, and according to the company, at least one million users may have lost access to their accounts over the weekend, even as Yahoo said that the problem has already been resolved.

Sunnyvale, California — The future of social bookmarking service Delicious is no longer in danger. Delicious, whose future had been in question since Yahoo announced its intention to divest itself of it last year, will live on as part of a new Internet company run by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.

Los Angeles — As the online daily deals market is becoming crowded by the day, popular social media titan Facebook on Tuesday, finally launched its long-awaited deals service in five cities that will allow Facebook users to buy coupons for everything from a five-person banana split to a Pilates class for bridesmaids, a feature that […]

Sunnyvale, California — Struggling Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc. on Monday took a courageous step, announced that it has acquired IntoNow, a budding Palo Alto start-up that makes an iOS app that enables users to “Check-In” to films or television shows they are watching with their friends, in its continuing drive to boost its social media […]

New York — In a bid to spread its innovation, it seems like MapQuest is prepping a massive management shakeup. The wholly owned subsidiary of AOL Inc., over the weekend announced that it has hired an ex-Googler to run Mapquest out in Denver, as a VP of Product Management: Vijay R. Bangaru, who is the […]