San Francisco — The battle of the biggies have once again heated up, with Google Inc., owner of the world’s most popular search engine, on Tuesday accused its arch rival Microsoft Corp.’s Bing of “copying” its search query results, even gibberish queries, the latest salvo in the competition between the two technology behemoths, an accusation […]

Mountain View, California — In a surprising move that marks search engine behemoth Google jump into the check-in bandwagon. According to the company’s mobile blog, on Tuesday unveiled an updated version of its Google Maps 5.1 for Android and included the ability for smartphone users check in to specific locations with Latitude, its feature for […]

Los Angeles — Internet pioneer AOL Inc. on Monday said it has agreed to buy European video distributor GoViral, saying that it “supports our overall content strategy by creating another immediate delivery path for all of the great content we are generating daily,” in a deal worth $96.7 million, the latest in an acquisition spree […]

Mountain View, California — As the unrest in Egypt is mounting, Internet service in the country is now totally shut down and there are reports that cell phone service has again been cut, but global search engine leader Google, in association with Twitter and its recently acquired SayNow, has released a special service to allow […]

New Delhi — Google and Bharti Foundation, the charitable arm of Bharti Enterprises, on Monday announced a social initiative in the field of education, said it has been awarded a $5 million funding by search engine giant Google to upgrade and support its 50 elementary Satya Bharti schools, run by the Bharti Foundation Ltd.

Los Anglels — Relentlessly striving to trounce its rivals, search engine behemoth Google on Monday unleashed a revamped interface for “Google Docs” making it more visually appealing and promises to promote greater productivity as it seeks to improve its cloud-computing collaboration application for documents.

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft is striking a new chord to get Mac OSX users back on board with a new features on a 30-day free trial of its Office 2011 suite of applications before shelling out serious cash.

Mountain View, California — Are you a frustrated Gmail user because you could not instantly view how many e-mails you have in your inbox? Gmail users can rejoice now as search engine titan Google has made a simple but very effective addition to its Chrome browser — that delivers desktop notifications for Gmail and Gtalk.

San Francisco — The people behind sites like Realtor.com, Redfin, and Trulia can breathe a sigh of relief and perhaps throw a party, as search engine behemoth Google last week abandoned its real estate listings on Google Maps, on the pile of failures along with Google Wave, Google Video, Google Web Accelerator… the list goes […]

Mountain View, California — Twitter is making it easier than ever to play a virtual game of six degrees of separation via a new “Connections” attribute that shows users what they have in common with others in the Twitterverse.