New York — News Corp. owned MySpace’s messaging interface may soon take a new shape for the better. Late yesterday, the struggling social network confirmed that it is acquiring the assets and staff from Threadbox, a real-time social chat platform that plans to combine elements of email and prides itself in comparisons to Facebook.

Mountain View, California — Google on Friday revealed that it has acquired online database provider Metaweb, a heavily-backed startup which has been assembling a grand database on more than 12 million “items,” from around the world, which it then provides to site owners so that they can add the information to their sites.

San Francisco — Google’s display ad business is about to explode (in a positive way), according to a new report. The search engine colossus has teamed up with Omnicom Media Group for online display advertising, an area the internet giant is attempting to expand in as it looks for revenue streams outside of its traditional search […]

Cupertino, California — Ever since establishing in 1976, Apple has so far acquired 28 companies, less than one acquisition a year. But now the Cupertino company is discarding its traditional ethos and is on a buying binge with tons of cash, and has recently shown an increasing enthusiasm to spend it to acquire companies like […]

Mountain View, California — Until now if you happen to have more than one Google account, then opening another one in the same browser was just out of imagination, and thus it can be a real pain to manage multiple accounts. But this news about a novel feature that the search engine titan has under the […]

Los Angeles — With the World Cup fad ended, Twitter becomes one of the top online social media networking sites for users, which is now focusing on new features again. Without wasting any time, the company has now made searching for people or brands easier. Twitter is now displaying “name results” for people in search […]

Redmond, Washington — Slacking off at work just got a little easier with Outlook flourishing beyond a simple desktop email client, as Microsoft has recently empowered users to connect directly to four of the world’s top social networks. Pictures, status updates, and friend requests can appear next to email. Microsoft’s latest move seems both smart […]

San Francisco — After going through some difficult times for a few months the software maker Microsoft introduced Bing, and according to Reston-based metrics firm comScore in its latest report indicated that while still lagging far behind Google, Bing showed signs of greater growth than its main search rival in June.

Mountain View, California — Fed up by sending lengthy Google map urls with 8-million characters? There is no denying it–those Google Maps URLs are shockingly long. Thankfully, search engine giant Google’s latest improvisation is not another “me too” URL shortener, but an actually useful tool for Google Maps. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company has just […]

San Francisco — Last year, Google unveiled location extensions, which lets you “extend” your AdWords campaigns by dynamically attaching your relevant business address to your ads. The search engine giant has just released a new feature for its AdWords location extensions that allows brands to display the addresses of multiple branches in a particular area. […]