Palo Alto, California — Facebook, the popular social-networking site, which recently surpassed the 400 million user mark and is celebrating its sixth anniversary, has once again started rolling out a revamped homepage last week, a redesign intended to make it easier to find certain features, like notifications, news photos, and chat. As of last weekend, […]

San Francisco — Microsoft and Facebook have operated together since 2007, but now their relationship is beginning to develop, with both sides sacrificing a little but harvesting more in exchange. As part of the amended agreement between the companies, Facebook is gaining back control over selling the graphical ads that appear on the site while […]

Mountain View, California — Mostly consumers tend to use the free version of Google Apps, but search engine titan Google last week began offering some basic mobile device management features through its paid Google Applications the ability to manage iPhones, Nokia E series and Windows Mobile devices remotely, a feature that may appeal both to […]

San Francisco — Amazon appears to be making strides towards making the Kindle a little more touchy — now that Apple’s iPad is official and being hailed as a “Kindle Killer”. Amazon has reportedly acquired a small New York startup called Touchco, a leading touch-screen innovator amid rumors that it is developing a new Kindle […]

New York — Ever since Tim Armstrong took over leadership at AOL as CEO from his earlier job managing the Mountain View company’s sales department, AOL has been pretty successful in poaching former Google colleagues to help with the overhaul of the trouble plagued Internet company. The media company has poached another high-profile Google executive […]

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft Corp., established that another Windows veteran, “Mike Nash,” corporate vice president, who steered Microsoft’s security activities before committing the past several years in the product management and strategy department in the Windows unit, is leaving the company effective before the end of February. He is leaving to join the Kindle group […]

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo Inc.’s continued strategy to lighten its corporate load, and as the national unemployment rate continues to remain around 10%, considering this the Web portal has dumped another of its property deemed expendable by CEO Carol Bartz, selling HotJobs to Monster for $225 million. As part of the deal, the Internet pioneer […]

Mountain View, California — Many of you have probably already noticed a little Google Search icon on the toolbar in the Gmail compose window. Now they have added several powerful new features. The official introduction of all these features was announced today on the Official Gmail Blog.

San Francisco — Wish to constantly monitor a hot new story being reported by multiple news agency? A new Google feature now lets you bookmark stories on the front page (with a star) as well as story clusters that appear in search results. Today Google News added the ability to help you keep track of […]

New York — With the escalating technological improvements, and ever since Google rolled out its free Google Maps Navigation application for Android 2.0 devices last October, the days for standalone GPS devices and paid GPS applications on smartphones now becomes history. Verizon, North America’s largest mobile carrier, recently announced a new version of VZ Navigator […]