Los Angeles — Preparing to gear up for more deals, Facebook has nabbed away Google Inc.’s director of corporate development, Amin Zoufonou, to lead its fledgling merger and acquisition efforts, where his responsibilities will likely include hiring other business development specialists and pursuing acquisitions and partnerships, as the world’s No. 1 Internet social-media network shows […]

Austin, Texas — Software behemoth Microsoft’s long journey to rejuvenate its Internet Explorer, and deliver it as a competitive web browser against speedy upstarts like Google Chrome, finally reached its end tonight. After months of beta testing, on Monday evening Microsoft unleashed its new Web browser, Internet Explorer 9, at the hip event at South […]

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New York — On the heels of last weeks layoffs that left a reported 900 employees without jobs, internet behemoth AOL and the Huffington Post, said that it has tapped Biz Stone, co-founder of white-hot microblogging service Twitter, as a “strategic adviser for social impact,” the company announced on Monday.

Redmond, Washington — Software monopolist Microsoft’s Bing team sparked an online outrage when its Twitter donation drive for last week’s catastrophic earthquake / tsunami / nuclear meltdown that devastated large parts of north-eastern Japan, which was perceived to be a tasteless ploy to promote its Bing search engine from a tragedy. Tweet tying company contributions […]

San Francisco — Popular social media giant Facebook Inc. is planning to experiment with a service initiated by Groupon, which provides consumers buy discounted one-time offers, an effort to utilize its 500 million-plus members to capitalize on the surging online-deal market, as it looks for new ways to boost sales and attract local business customers.

Mountain View, California — In an attempt to further widen its service, search engine titan Google over the weekend extended a small technological enhancement to its voice calling feature in Gmail with an ability to click-to-call on phone numbers instantly that friends, colleagues and other contacts send them in a Gmail e-mail or chat message […]

Japan — Just as Egypt has been pronounced as the Twitter revolution, so does Friday’s devastating 8.9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan, was destined to become the Twitter disaster. Once again, social media networking sites Twitter and Facebook are proving to be lifelines in times of crisis — giving news advisories, prayers for […]

Mountain View, California — Communicating via e-mail is still the bane of many people’s existence online, with messages appearing at a lightening speed like a blizzard spreading across your computer screen. Google on Wednesday unveiled a Gmail Labs feature called “Smart Labels,” to help its 150 million-plus users to automatically sort the loads of social […]

Los Angeles — Just a month ago, Facebook introduced a revamped version of Facebook Pages, effectively synchronizing the design of pages and profiles. Today, Facebook’s official Twitter account transmitted the following message: “The upgrade to Facebook Pages will be rolling out to all Pages today. Learn more at http://ow.ly/4bWhV.” This means that the opt-in phase […]