Los Angeles — With competition reaching a flash-point in the Q&A space from Quora and LinkedIn Answers, social media site Facebook on Thursday said that it has refurbished its Questions service and transformed it into a succinct, sleek, poll-taking machine, making brevity the soul of wisdom.

Mountain View, California — In a crowded world, many businesses that only offer a service or product in a localize area, it can be a very good idea to use location-targeting in AdWords. The search engine giant Google has just announced some improved location-targeting AdWords functionality that many advertisers should be very happy about.

New York — It is shocking to learn that, according to a study conducted by the Pew, nearly half of all 12 year olds in the U.S. are using social networking sites. But, Facebook’s privacy policy, which describes that users must be at least 13 years old to create an account, and this week the […]

Sunnyvale, California — Struggling internet pioneer Yahoo, which has relinquished its search engine to Microsoft two years ago as part of a major overhaul of its business, on Wednesday began a US rollout of a feature called Search Direct, which delivers real time Internet search results as quickly as people can type their queries.

Redmond, Washington — Software producer Microsoft on Wednesday introduced some nifty features to its mobile browsing for image search, real-time transit and directions, and thanks to enhanced HTML5 support and some other refinements.

Los Angeles — Internet’s popular social media network Facebook is reportedly stitching another layer to its location-based features by adding check-ins to events.

New York — In an unfortunate blow to Google’s controversial plans to create the world’s biggest digital library, a bookstore and expand its Internet dominance, has run into the reality of a 300-year-old legal predicament: copyright, which has now been shelved by a federal judge in New York on Tuesday rejected a sweeping $125 million […]

San Francisco — For gamers who are engrossed with smash hit games like FarmVille and CityVille, hold your breath as the online social gaming phenomenon has reached a new level. Zynga, the company that created those addictive online game, is introducing the gaming world to yet another obsessive series of games to keep on playing […]

New York — Just 1,825 days ago, at 4:50 p.m. on March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey dispatched a five-word message over a new service he had just finished formulating with a team of programmers: wrote “just setting up my twttr.” Surprisingly since then, the wildly popular microblogging service Twitter Inc. has come a long way […]

Mountain View, California — Barely two months after extending Latitude check-ins for Android devices, search engine giant Google has now launched an updated version of Latitude for iOS that complements support for check-ins feature to the iPhone on Monday.