Palo Alto, California — World’s most popular social networking site Facebook on Friday launched a new live video streaming channel called Facebook Live, intended to keep users updated on what is happening at the social-networking site. This is the company’s official live channel, broadcasting from Facebook Headquarters in Palo Alto.

New York — Attempting to regain its lost ground to Facebook and Twitter, dwindling social network site MySpace is geared up to unleash a complete redesign of its homepage. The revamped user homepage is focused around two information streams with lots of white surrounding space, abandoning MySpace’s trademark dark and busy backdrop.

Mountain View, California — Google on Thursday unleashed two new Android applications that let users dictate actions to their phones and link their phones with information from their desktop Chrome browser. The search engine giant announced the addition of “Voice Actions” to its Android 2.2 Froyo search capabilities, as well as introduced a new Chrome […]

San Francisco — Setting the stage for a showdown of two Silicon Valley heavyweights, Oracle issued a press release late Thursday saying it has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Google’s popular Android operating system has infringed on copyrights and patents related to Java, which Oracle acquired along with Sun Microsystems earlier this year. Android, […]

New Delhi — India became the latest government in a long list of national governments that have recently entered into the BlackBerry controversy Thursday by demanding that Research in Motion allow Indian law enforcement access to Blackberry Enterprise Service and Blackberry Messenger Service data by August 31., in the name of national security.

Los Angeles — Micro-blogging site Twitter on Wednesday unleashed a new feature for users in the U.S., who can now follow Twitter accounts called “Fast Follow” SMS feature options that allows both registered and non-registered users to receive 140 character long SMS tweets on their mobile phones without having to sign up for a Twitter […]

San Francisco — Tech news site Mashable.com has unmasked confidential documents late Tuesday, which states that the popular micro-blogging site Twitter is gearing up to introduce an official “Tweet Button” that will let users share content from the web, and counting how many times a post has been tweeted, the concept is similar to the […]

Mountain View, California — Google Inc., seeking to spread its wings beyond Internet advertising, on Wednesday said that it has endorsed one of the biggest partnerships Google TV Ads has been waiting for, is to administer television ads for several DirecTV, the largest U.S. satellite TV provider. Internet search engine leader Google will be serving […]

Mountain View, California — Ever since its launch the Contacts portion of Gmail seemingly has been ignored, but the search engine colossus Google on Tuesday announced that it is giving the contact management tool located inside Gmail an “overhaul,” a move based on constructive criticism from some of the Webmail application’s roughly 200 million users. […]

San Francisco — Whether assessing the effectiveness of long-standing keywords or searching for new extensive phrases that may answer consumers’ queries and catch clicks, marketers consistently turn to Google’s Keyword tool. Now, the search engine leader on its AdWords Blog announced that its updated Keyword Tool will only be available by the end of August, […]