San Francisco — In a surprise announcement at Wednesday’s Web 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Marissa Mayer, Google’s VP of Search Products and User Experience, revealed that users of Google’s search engine will soon be able to display content created by friends in search results lists through an upcoming Google product called “Social Search”. Currently, […]

San Francisco — Microsoft’s president of online services division, Qi Lu and senior vice president Yusuf Mehdi, took advantage of the Web 2.0 Summit here on Wednesday to announce two rumored alliances it has made with social networking sites Facebook and Twitter that will bring real-time tweets and social media status updates through its Bing […]

Sunnyvale, California — After three years of stumbling financials, and aggressive cost-cutting moves, the Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo Inc. said that net profit soared more than 244% in the third quarter to 186 million dollars, or 13 cents per share, from 54 million dollars, or four cents per share, a year ago, easily surpassing analysts’ forecasts, […]

Mountain View, California — Last year, Google Analytics team unveiled a ton of novel features and this year they are at it again. The search engine behemoth today at the annual meeting announced a slew of new features for its Google Analytics service, there are some quite useful features in those updates. These new enhancement […]

San Francisco — People around the globe already enjoy many of Google’s services online. But how about enjoying in-flight Wi-Fi and that for free? For the next three months, travelers flying on Virgin America over the holidays, will be able to access those same services from above Earth too. Virgin America is teaming up with […]

Los Angeles — Search engine titan Google Inc., normally famous for creating its global business empire using little or no any conventional marketing method to promote its wares, has nonetheless found that such an approach is effective for its enterprise products and, has launched its biggest ever international advertising campaign running across six countries using […]

San Francisco — Based on various reports that appeared this morning, it looks as though Google was narrowly escaped from weathering a storm of bad publicity. According to a recent report from a technology blog site that claimed to have discovered an apparent transcripts of some voice mail messages from “Google Voice” that Google indexed, […]

Redmond, Washington — Microsoft earlier this week announced an exclusive deal sponsoring a Windows 7 television entertainment next month in collaboration with News Corp.’s Fox and “Family Guy” creator/voice actor Seth MacFarlane and his co-associate. The show, dubbed “Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show,” and will combine Windows 7 promotions into […]

Mountain View, California — If you are an avid Google Docs user, and receive bulk of emails with links to documents that your friends share with you. Google has earlier made it easier for Gmail users to preview items such as YouTube videos and Picasa Web albums without leaving their Gmail inboxes. Now, the internet […]

Frankfurt, Germany — Global search and advertising giant Google Inc. on Thursday, disclosed its intention at the Frankfurt Book Fair that in the first half of next year it intends to launch an online bookstore named “Google Editions” that will offer books in digital format that can be read on laptops, cell phones and other […]