New York — Barely a week after search engine behemoth Google’s hissy fit about Bing “copying” its search results by collecting Google results, Microsoft-powered search engine saw a jump in market share over the last month, increasing its U.S. market share by 21 percent, according to Experian Hitwise. Maybe this is why Google has been […]

San Francisco — World’s most popular social networking giant Facebook, which quietly unfurled its real-time commenting for all users in late January, allowing users to see new comments by others appear in-line without having to refresh the page. Real-time commenting across the site has been live for about two weeks now, but Facebook has only […]

Redmond, Washington — Late last year, Microsoft spread-out the availability of its Office Web Apps to 15 additional countries. Now, in a post on the Office Blog over the weekend, the Microsoft’s Office Web Apps team has announced another bump — this time by a whopping 150 additional countries.

Mountain View, California — Google’s Priority Inbox, which is happily enjoyed by desktop users since last September and through Gmail for Android since December, and now those who have been using the mobile Gmail web app for the longest time will be pleased to know that the search engine titan on Monday added Priority Inbox […]

Los Angeles — In its second recent prominent media site acquisition, web portal AOL said tonight it has agreed to pay $315 million to acquire The Huffington Post, the influential news site co-founded in 2005 by Arianna Huffington and media executive Kenneth Lerer, and form a new media powerhouse by combining the content of both […]

Sunnyvale, California — After revealing that display advertising is boosting, since then technology conglomerate Yahoo has been trying to crack the hyperlocal marketplace along with everyone else and over the weekend the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Internet portal has launched “AdLabs,” a group aimed at providing “scientific leadership” to the online advertising industry and accelerating innovation in […]

Los Angeles — Steering a corporation is not easy, and with all of your employees flocking to Facebook, things can become pretty complicated. That is a question that has been tossed about for years as a growing number of organizations have hoped to leverage the popularity of the social networking site that has exploded to […]

Mountain View, California — Relentlessly striving to snap at every new opportunities in the online arena, search engine titan Google on Tuesday expanded its Hotpot, a Yelp competitor that acts as its local recommendation engine and ratings/reviews system for places, has officially gone worldwide. And do not be surprised, Hotpot links will now also appear […]

Redmond, Washington — Following Tuesday’s fracas over whether Microsoft was accumulating search results from rival Google, sparking the latest Microsoft-versus-Google brouhaha, a Bing executive is not letting it go: “We do not copy results from any of our competitors. Period. Full stop,” Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s senior VP of its Online Services Division, said in a […]

New York — Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch, among the most ardent defenders of the traditional press, on Wednesday launched its most ambitious effort yet to re-invent the way news is delivered and consumed as he pressed the send button on “The Daily,” as he staked his reputation on a risky bet that for just 14 […]