Mountain View, California — The launch of Buzz has casted a dark shadow over Google’s several privacy mishaps. User protests and an FTC complaint have compelled Google to give users of its Buzz social messaging service another chance to correct their privacy settings, after the service launched in February with a leaky privacy policy. The […]

New York — As Google awaits approval of a controversial digital book settlement with authors and publishers, the search giant now faces another potential setback and delays as several groups representing photographers and illustrators prepare to file a fresh class action lawsuit against the company on Wednesday, alleging that its campaign to digitize millions of […]

San Francisco — Barely two years after AOL acquired the social network site Bebo for a whopping US$850 million, the company has now decided to either sell or shut down the ailing service by the end of next month, as the company scuttles a stalled effort to capitalize on demand for online social networking, according […]

Mountain View, California — Even though Google has a few apps that come pre-installed into the iPad, the search titan has spiced up the Gmail interface specifically for Apple’s latest iPad and other tablets that are due for arrival soon

Redmond, Washington — With eye catcher aimed at the youth, the Redmond Vole stirred up some speculation on Monday with invitations to a mysterious press event. Microsoft, is rumored to release its much hyped project about "Pink" Smartphone that has been swirling for months on April 12. The tipsters indicated that company has rotated few […]

Sunnyvale, California — Just a day before the launch of iPad, Yahoo today released Yahoo Entertainment for the iPad, a free app that offers an iPad-friendly user interface for exploring entertainment reviews, television listings, exclusive video contents, news and more. The app delivers consumers with a fancy experience for the way they live, consume and […]

San Francisco — Facebook seems to be following Google’s footsteps at the moment, gobbling up the services that it believes could make the site stronger. Its latest target is Divvyshot, a one-year old photo-sharing startup focused on multiple user contributing and managing online photo albums, to beef up its photo-sharing offerings for a combination of […]

Mountain View, California — Streaming TV is a flourishing service across the globe, and as it appears that soon this pocket will get crowded with more companies shifting focus to streaming TV. Search engine behemoth Google has just entered this space with its fifth acquisition of Episodic, a platform for broadcasting live and on-demand video, […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo on Thursday said that it is unfolding some new search improvements for Yahoo Sports and Yahoo News search topic pages, all designed to give the user what they are looking for, quickly and easily, on this April Fools Day, and Yahoo’s Tricia Stream quoted as saying to WebProNews that it is […]

San Francisco — In an effort to strengthen the popularity of its online health channel, Internet pioneer Yahoo Inc., on Thursday said that it is entering into a broad partnership with a specialist, Healthline Networks, a leading provider of intelligent health related content and applications, which would boost to its health section. While Yahoo is […]