Australia — Yahoo7, the Australasian subsidiary of struggling internet pioneer Yahoo, has snapped up group buying site Spreets.com.au, and its New Zealand operation Spreets.co.nz, which provides economical marketing to small businesses through online coupon deals, for an amount reported to be a cool $40 million, which will see the site shift away from its city-by-city […]

Dr. Cinque’s Health Retreat is a gateway to a world untouched by the disturbances and toxicities of life, perfect for those looking to lose some weight or hold therapeutic fasts. The centre provides also dietary counseling and fitness training while introducing you to secure health alternatives. The retreat has now established itself as one of […]

Los Angeles — Just when it seemed that the conflagration over Facebook privacy issues was cooling off, Facebook has stoked the fire once again. Over the weekend, the social-networking champion (four Golden Globe awards winner) updated its developer blog with a post that it had modified its platform to make users’ home addresses and phone […]

New York — Since time immemorial, many internet users are already aware of the risks presented by browsers that have been able to store small text files called cookies that collects your internet activity. Adobe Systems Inc., this week is extending assurances that it is working to improve the privacy controls in its popular Flash […]

Reston, VA — After Yahoo and Microsoft finally merged their gigantic search technology and advertising partnership, comScore, Inc., the most prominent leaders in measuring the digital world, released its monthly statistics and it appears that Microsoft’s Bing search engine was once again a hit with consumers. While Google remains firmly atop the search engine heap, […]

San Francisco — Mozilla on Friday on the company blog announced the release of Firefox 4 Beta 9, for those of you wishing to test it out right away — is now available for download, another step towards the open source browser’s expected release before it pushes through a final version now planned to ship […]

New York — AOL might be struggling, but in fact it is still trying to figure out how it can remain in business. In a major restructuring to the company’s Internet content division, the company has announced new content partnerships with “The Sporting News to deliver sports content, Everyday Health for health content and Move […]

Mountain View, California — Google Search has long offered suggestions when it thinks you may have entered a word (or words) incorrectly. Now, Gmail users with less than perfect spelling can now rejoice as the search engine giant’s email service now suggests correct spelling searches, when it comes time to perform a search of your […]

Seoul, South Korea — After China, Now its South Korea’s turn to grumble about Google. In what may come as a rude shock to the cyber world, internet search engine giant Google has been alleged by South Korean Police, which reportedly mentioned that Google broke the country’s law when its Street View service captured personal […]

New York — If you are an Android users and a fan of Google services, chances are you have at least fiddled with Google Translate, now speakers of English and Spanish can now speak with each other through the engagement of Google Translate. The search engine giant Google on Wednesday began transforming Android-powered smartphones into […]