New York — Well are not sure whether we should call this a triumph for Apple or a failure for Adobe, but for sure the news would sadden Adobe Flash fans everywhere, as Adobe has officially abandoned support for the Flash interpreter it previously trumpeted as a gateway for developers to get their games on […]

Mountain View, California — Google recently introduced “Search Suggest” for Google Maps in several countries, and now it has expanded the feature to ten more countries, including the U.S., simplifying it for users to find places in a nearby location, the search giant announced Thursday.

Los Angeles — The ex-Google execs running AOL are looking to make display advertising a little more Google-like, and following the tag-line — AOL has introduced the beta version of the Advertising.com “Ad Desk,” a new campaign management platform aimed at small and mid-sized agencies and advertisers. The Web services company formulated the platform after […]

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft has long trialled behind Google in almost everything that is connected with the Internet. But the software maker has lifted the curtain on a new online beta project called simply Docs that for the first time will let Facebookers create and share documents authored in Office 2010, which indicates that Microsoft […]

London — Google has unveiled a free beta version of Google Maps turn-by-turn satellite navigation for users of some Android devices 1.6 and higher in the UK and Ireland, six months after it did so for its US customers. The new functionality was distributed in beta form on Wednesday.

New York — Yahoo! has acquired a new domain name called “Me.Me,” for its Yahoo Meme micro-blogging service — as a part of its strategy to compete with Twitter. With its earnings swelling up in Q1 2010 over Q1 2009, and things appear to be looking good for Yahoo with improved ad spending, this will […]

Mountain View, California — Although Google and Apple continue to find themselves on odds, but search engine leader’s quest for window-shopping for high-tech acquisitions has reportedly netted the company yet another asset. Google has reportedly acquired “Agnilux,” a San Jose-based startup that was formed by former executives and workers from PA Semi, according to PEHub.

Sunnyvale, California — Well, that was pretty quick. Barely two weeks after Yahoo announced that Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of products Ari Balogh, who earlier this month said would be leaving for “personal reasons,” the company quickly nabbed Microsoft old-timer “Blake Irving” as replacement for Balogh, Yahoo said Monday.

San Francisco — Simplicity through obscurity — Google’s Chrome address bars will no longer feature the prefix — causes geek outrage. Have you ever wondered why people put http:// in front of website addresses? Search leader Google made an interesting move in the latest developer builds of its Chrome browser. The company has stripped out […]

Mountain View, California — In what seems to be just change of name with a minor twists – The Mountain View search engine titan late on Monday announced that it has renamed its “Local Business Center” — a place of business where shops, bars, restaurants and the like can create online profiles — from now […]