San Francisco — Rumors have been spreading wildly since the popular social networking outfit Facebook has sent out a press invitation for an announcement Nov. 15 in San Francisco to unleash @facebook.com email service in its latest attempt that could make it a serious rival to Gmail.

San Francisco — It was only a matter of time before music started appearing in tweets. Avid Microblogging website Twitter said on Thursday that users should prepare for a potential barrage of musical tweets after Apple’s social network Ping and Twitter announced a partnership today.

Washington — If you have been on the web for around a decade now then you would know that Ask.com, the immortal underdog in the search engine game is giving up its search efforts and will be focusing exclusively on Q & A from now on.

Hyderabad, India — Google, the world’s largest search engine colossus is pinning hopes on the ballooning cloud computing market in India, on Thursday announced plans to invest heavily in cloud computing by setting up a center of excellence and double its engineering headcount in the country in next two years, with Hyderabad as its global […]

Sunnyvale, California Amid upheaval in Yahoo’s ad sales operation, and to thwart critics who continue to hound Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz for an unstable management team, the portal company has hired “Wayne Powers,” a former Time Inc executive, to revive its slumping ad sales business as its North American ad sales senior vice president.

Los Angeles— Now that frontfacing cameras are becoming commonplace on smartphones, competing web outfit Yahoo has launched an updated version of Yahoo Mail Android app to all users of devices running under Google’s mobile operating system that includes, among other things, support for multiple accounts, photo browsing, and contact sync, complemented by the availability of […]

Mountain View, California — Advertising is the lifeline of millions of websites, is not nearly as effective if it is not managed and placed to optimal effect. Marketers managing their holiday search campaigns may be pleased to hear that search engine Goliath Google Inc. on the Inside AdSense Blog announced the introduction of a redesigned […]

Mountain View, California — While Microsoft and Google continue to be fierce tech rivals, on Monday search engine heavyweight Google extended its signature mobile search application to Microsoft’s fledgling Windows Phone 7 operating system, in a release that promises faster and more relevant search results, giving users an alternative to Microsoft’s own Bing search solution. […]

New York — Google, in its insatiable quest to create a speedier and more useful user experience, just keeps upping the ante for search engines — this time with some visual liveliness — on Tuesday unveiled Instant Previews, a feature that will let users get a glimpse of search results pages by hovering over a […]

San Francisco — Around this time last year, Google bestowed American travelers with the gift of free Wi-Fi at 47 major U.S. airports. This time, the move is a twist on a similar theme to provide free Inflight Internet to their passengers throughout the holiday season, the Google Chrome browser team announced that it has […]