San Francisco — Former MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe, who resigned from the social-networking company last year, has re-emerged as part of a group buying the Facebook online game provider MindJolt.

Mountain View, California — Stepping up its battle against Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. hoping to gain strong footing as a leader in cloud-computing, last week upped the ante by announcing the acquisition of DocVerse — a startup company founded by Microsoft veterans that allow for real-time editing and sharing of Office documents online. DocVerse makes […]

San Francisco — Google owned popular video-sharing site YouTube, on Thursday in a remarkable development announced that it is unveiling its auto-caption feature for millions of deaf and hard of hearing Internet users, to all English-language videos on the video-sharing website.

Sunnyvale, California — Last December, Yahoo announced that it would be unfurling deep integration of many of its popular products and services with Facebook Connect, essentially outsourcing all things social to the world’s most popular social network. Today marks the fulfillment of that promise of this partnership, with Yahoo Contacts now connected to Facebook. The […]

Mountain View, California — Cloud computing remains somewhat vulnerable when it comes to security, and many of us take the disaster readiness of servers and data centers for granted. But for IT admins from both small and large companies, being prepared for disaster and emergency situations is complicated and expensive issue. Google, in its relentless […]

New York — Annoyed with the tiny touch-screens on today’s mobile devices? Ever since the immensely huge success of Apple’s touchscreen devices that has revolutionized the way we communicate with electronics, Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, along with Microsoft’s research lab have developed and innovative gadget called “Skinput,” an experimental device that turns the skin […]

Mountain View, California — In an attempt to deliver more personalized search experience, Google today unleashed yet another way to give users a more novel feature — marking search results with cutesy, yellow star icons, called Google Stars, allowing them to mark their favorite or best query results or map location results to make sure […]

San Francisco — Google’s making sure that Chrome’s dominance is a global phenomenon, using a uniquely Google trick: The Mountain View company on Tuesday said that automatic translation is the most latest feature it added to Google’s Chrome browser, allowing for instant machine translation of webpages, without the need for any browser extensions or plug-ins. […]

Redmond, Washington — Software major Microsoft Corp., today announced that it has inked a licensing deal with geo-positioning startup Navizon to offer geolocation for mobile users. Navizon Inc., (formerly Mexens Technology) in a statement said that under the deal that would empower tech giant to use Navizon’s global location database to provide an enhanced experience […]

San Francisco — Just a little over a month ago, Google unveiled click-to-call phone options in local ads on smartphones.  Now, in an attempt to further its mobile-ad facilities, Google is now improving on its mobile ad arsenal by expanding its new click-to-call ad options to national advertisers, making it easier for large companies to […]