San Francisco — Despite criticism from privacy advocates, users and even congressmen, popular social media network Facebook Inc., resolutely moving forward with an aborted roll-out of a controversial feature that allows third-party websites and applications request addresses and mobile-phone numbers from users, a feature that had prompted privacy questions from U.S. Lawmakers.

  Mountain View, California — The unthinkable has happened… In what could be a major setback for those advocating cloud storage, Google’s Gmail users today experienced something bizarre– Several Gmail help forums were cramped with users who complained today of suddenly and mysteriously having lost their old e-mail, folders, and contacts data that was stored […]

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft’s search engine Bing over the weekend rolled out a way to sift among billions of airfares much faster that it is now auto-suggesting flight prices directly from the Bing search box. A new feature called “Price Predictor” auto-suggests flights and prices right from the search box, according to a Bing blog […]

San Francisco — Slammed with stinging criticism to enhance the quality of its search results from smaller rivals, and tacitly admitting that Web publishers are flooding its search engine with low-quality pages, Google over the weekend made a significant change to its formula to combat the growing number of websites that exist primarily to land […]

Mountain View, California — In an attempt to gain further stronghold in the clouds computing, global search engine Goliath Google on Thursday unabashedly announced the worldwide availability of Google Cloud Connect for Microsoft Office, a tool that allows Microsoft Office users to sync Word and other documents with Google Docs.

Los Angeles — Payvment, a popular social e-commerce platform, that enables anyone to create and operate a retail storefront on Facebook, on Thursday announced the launch of its latest endeavor: first virtual Facebook Shopping Mall on the social media network for over one million searchable products and includes a directory of e-commerce stores, from celebrity […]

  They ask ‘When seconds matter, can you protect those who matter most?’ SWIFT Weather joins millions in their quest to secure themselves against natural calamities, unsought and unpredicted. Weather Defender is a leaf off the software solution firm SWIFT Weather,  run by Rory Groves, a former storm chaser and software engineer. This initiative vows to protect […]

Sunnyvale, California — More than a year after announcing what they called the sunset of various properties, Yahoo, the struggling portal for a while now trying to figure out exactly what it is they are offering and how they fit into the new world order taken over by Google. Finally, the company today announced the […]

Redmond, Washington — People who are connected with both Bing and Facebook should soon become more familiar than ever with the concept of “social search,” as Bing truly admires Facebook Likes: The Microsoft-owned Google competitor on Thursday expanded the partnership between its Bing search engine and Facebook by adding its “Liked Results” to include any […]

Mountain View, California — Google and Facebook have never been all-out rivals, but with the new turn of events is the latest chapter in the baffling spat between the Silicon Valley biggies, apparently appears as though Google is starting to feel the pressure mounting from Facebook, and this time Google has set the ball rolling […]