Los Angeles — World’s most popular social media network Facebook, with more than 500 million members, on Monday made yet another dive into mobile platform seeking to deepen its penetration in the emerging 5 billion-plus global mobile phone market with the acquisition of the UK/Israeli company “Snaptu,” a developer of apps for feature phones, for […]

Mountain View, California — Global search engine leader Google over the weekend announced via micro-blogging site Twitter that it has revamped its panoramic Street View website, a nifty little place on the Web that allows viewers to take a peek at what is going on in the world through 360-degree street-level imagery, which now includes […]

Los Angeles — For the Facebook enthusiasts, BlackBerry-maker (RIM) has just rolled out the first beta release for the next major version 2.0 of Facebook for BlackBerry, which is bundled with a refreshed user interface and incorporates a host of new features, including deeper Facebook Chat integration.

Mountain View, California — Basically, Google Docs is conceived for writing. But often there is a need to write about what is been written. That is why, the search engine giant on Wednesday, enhanced its Google Docs product with a next-generation commenting system it has dubbed as “Discussions,” which will supposedly encourage feedback and smoother […]

New York — Continuing its goal of expanding its travel-related features, Microsoft’s Bing, this time rolled out new “Attractions Pages”, featuring museums, tourists spots and other activities, in tandem with partners TripAdvisor, Frommers, WCities and Zvents.

San Francisco –– While our eyes have somewhat habituated to the herky-jerky, average YouTube video shot by amateurs, the popular Google owned video-sharing site YouTube wants to make it better for us, and to raise those standards. Just after snapping up Next New Networks, YouTube has acquired “Green Parrot Pictures,” a digital-video technology company that […]

Sunnyvale, California — Imagine having your social media Facebook contacts with you, even while you are sifting through your mails on Yahoo! Well, it is true, users of Yahoo Mail can now chat with their Facebook friends from within Yahoo Mail.

Mountain View, California — Smelling the ad dollars hidden inside the Redmond Vole’s WP7, search and advertising giant Google on Tuesday extended its AdMob beta SDK for Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system, empowering developers a new path to start integrating its advertising products into their applications, define where the ads appear and control […]

Mountain View, California — The humongous growth of the internet means that it is now easier than ever before to start a business and reach a huge audience. But counterfeit goods tend to make anyone unhappy in the long run. Buyers are frustrated when they discover the quality of the product is shoddy. Google on […]

Austin, Texas — Revelling the $17 million funding round announced recently, StumbleUpon lets people easily share their favorite websites, and helps millions of readers explore the Internet, generating some impressive traffic in the process. StumbleUpon, at the SXSW introduced a new ad platform over the traditional banner ads on the Internet for advertisers dubbed as […]