Redmond, Washington — It seems that Microsoft is admitting defeat in the race of video-sharing. MSN Video will live on, but Soapbox is bound disappear in the darkness. Microsoft, which last month hinted about scaling back Soapbox, its user-generated video-sharing rival to YouTube, has finally decided to shut it down, the company said Tuesday. Soapbox, […]

San Francisco — It seems that Google still grants its employees play with their 20% time, as over the weekend its video sharing web site YouTube began experimenting with a three dimensional video. "YouTubePete," the Googler behind this project, confirmed this in a YouTube forum thread that he has been working on making a stereoscopic […]

Sunnyvale, California — An outstandingly revamped home page is finally coming to the Yahoo.com, one of the top-most traveled destinations on the Internet, and the company’s search page will follow suit starting next month. Struggling search engine pioneer Yahoo Inc. is expected to launch its new homepage today, as the company strives to make itself […]

Mountain View, California — On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to land on the moon. And on Monday, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, search engine giant Google released Moon in Google Earth, an addition to the popular Google Earth mapping software that […]

Redmond, Washington — In a striking move intended to combat the spam and pishing contributors to the process of undermining the security and privacy of Windows Live users, Microsoft, last week said that it had instituted a legal action against Funmobile Ltd., accusing a Hong Kong-based company led by Christian Heilesen and Henrick Heilesen. The […]

San Francisco — In a surprising news last week for social networking fans, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, officially announced the number of users have embraced the online social networking site have climbed to 250 million active users across the world, according to a post on the company blog. Facebook, continuing its relentless bid to rule […]

Mountain View, California — Sharply responding to Microsoft’s recently announced online Office 2010, search engine titan Google Inc. has its developers involved over at Google Docs, where the company claims it is working on a "shiny new interface" for Google Docs — in an attempt to deliver a counter-punch to Microsoft’s Office Web Applications. While […]

San Francisco — Motivated from the likes of Twitter and Facebook, Google on Wednesday taken a step froward with its awesome RSS reader, the company’s online feed aggregation service, with the addition of new social networking features similar to those found on Twitter and Facebook, cementing the nexus between Google profiles and its other services. […]

San Francisco — After almost 18 months of most bitter negotiations the Silicon Valley has witnessed, and unless there is some major flaw, Microsoft at last is said to be finalizing a deal to buy technology rival Yahoo’s web search business, according to an All Things Digital report late on Thursday. The long-awaited Microsoft-Yahoo search […]

New York — AOL is moving intensely into the fast-growing world of mixed martial arts, buying MMAFighting.com, an eight-year-old independent enthusiast Web site devoted to the sport of mixed martial arts, its third acquisition in a month to lure online advertisers. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but AOL executives said the new […]