Redmond, Washington — As part of an initiative to bring innovation and improvements to its Bing Maps, Microsoft has hired “Steve Coast” the man who fostered a great reputation in the geospatial community by founding OpenStreetMap, “a free editable map of the whole world,” the company announced Tuesday. The software maker announced that Coast will […]

San Francisco — In an attempt to scoop up more advertising dollars, this marks the first time the search engine giant has shown advertisements from any other network beside its own Adwords in its SERPs, Google has begun displaying Twitter’s Promoted Tweets in its real-time search, and observers expect the trial to be extended to […]

Texarkana, Texas — Global search and advertising giant Google is facing a class action lawsuit after a Texas resident on Wednesday lodged a complaint against Google claiming that the search engine leader’s Gmail service snooped on his emails in order to sell and place advertisements on account holder’s user screens, violating the Electronic Communications Privacy […]

New York — AOL Inc., the Internet portal site in the midst of transforming itself, on Tuesday announced that it is reorganizing its growing roster of video assets under one roof, dubbed as AOL Video.

Mountain View, California — In the insect world, parasitic wasps inject larvae into certain caterpillars. The larvae feed on the caterpillars, turn them into zombies, and eventually devour them. A similar concept is adopted by the Internet search engine behemoth Google, Google is putting its DocVerse team to use, unleashing a new plug-in for Google […]

Los Angeles — Global search engine leader Google, striving to promote one of its incredible Google Maps Navigation Service in Australia and New Zealand, over the weekend launched turn-by-turn navigation capabilities for Australian Android users, with the company launching the product at its Sydney headquarters.

San Francisco — The power of Google Docs is flourishing everywhere, and now it is coming to your pocket thanks to support for mobile browsers. The search engine giant is extending full mobile support from one of the best online editing of Google Docs so that for the first time the product will enable users […]

San Francisco — In a closely watched monthly ranking of search engine providers, indicates that October witnessed business as usual in the U.S. search engine market with Google and Bing both seizing slightly more share, but Yahoo, which partners with Microsoft on some technology, slipped a bit, according to data released yesterday by digital measuring […]

Mountain View, California — Google consolidated Gmail with Google Voice in late August, enabling people to make and receive calls from their computer with a Google Voice number. Earlier this month, there were some initial reports that Google has been working on improving this feature with a nifty addition: Now it appears that search engine […]

Redmond, Washington — In an attempt to keep pace with its rivals, Bing continues to upgrade its numerous product offerings, and over the weekend announced a series of enhancements to the Bing Maps interface, which coincides with the “AJAX V7 Control,” eliminating the need for Silverlight to view enhanced Bird’s Eye map views, touting both […]