Redmond, Washington — As Microsoft’s newest search engine Bing attempts to build up its brand, it jumps ship to those pesky Apple formats as another avenue for boosting usage of its Bing search engine. On Thursday, the Redmond, Washington software titan released a software developer kit (SDK) designed to make it easier for iPhone developers […]

San Francisco — Ever wonder which pizza restaurant you went to last time you were in town? Well, Google has now made it easier to find out businesses in Street View in Google Maps to refresh your memory. A recent update to Google Street View drops an informational pin on the location, when a user […]

Toronto, Canada — More than 200 million Facebook users around the world scored a great victory as the world’s most popular social-networking Web site, on Thursday, agreed in accordance with the Canadian Privacy Commissioner, announced to implement a major enhancement to its user privacy controls as well as its developer API, and agreed to improve […]

New York — AOL today announced that it has appointed former Time Warner Cable Inc. executive Arthur Minson as its chief financial officer as the Internet company prepares to separate from Time Warner Inc. and tries to fix its struggling business. AOL said new CFO Arthur Minson, who was earlier deputy CFO at Time Warner […]

San Francisco — Search and advertising titan Google Inc. is leaving no stone unturned in an attempt to collect every advertising dollar. The company has just announced plans via a post at the Inside AdSense Blog that it is opening up its ad platform to multiple Google-certified ad networks that will soon be competing with […]

Mountain View, California — If you are operating a business empire that is spread across more than one country or region, then communicating the simplest things to your employees becomes painful; and that sometimes as well creates a blunder out of it. However, Google on Thursday, added automatic translation to Google Docs empowering users to […]

Mountain View, California — Google is quickly following the race to keep pace with the industry leader, today announced that it would embrace the EPUB digital book format for its distribution of digital books, allowing users to download over 1 million public domain books, which is an open and free industry standard for electronic books, […]

New York — The most novel online user-written encyclopedia Wikipedia is growing up, and with growth comes a massive change to how it functions. As in the past, Wikipedia articles could be edited by anyone. Now, the online encyclopedia is planning to enforce new restrictions on the open editing system in order to thwart pranksters […]

San Francisco — If you are an amateur video-grapher, then producing an online viral video may certainly bring you notoriety, but from now on it can also fetch you some cash. Google Inc.’s YouTube, the world’s most popular video sharing site, on Tuesday offered a way to share advertising profits with users who post the […]

Sunnyvale, California — In an effort to expand its international presence, Internet pioneer Yahoo on Tuesday made a bold move, announcing that it has signed an agreement to acquire “Maktoob.com,” the leading online community in the Arab world with more than 16.5 million users. The deal has been talked about in tech circle for months […]