San Francisco — Do you have a habit of making a typo always? Well, the popular micro-blogging platform Twitter will now automatically show results for the right spelling. The social blogging outfit Twitter will bolster search functionality to automatically complete users’ queries and suggest related search terms, among other improvements announced in a blog post […]

Sunnyvale, California — In a novel turn of events, the untimely patent lawsuit initiated by Yahoo, has finally ended. As expected, internet pioneer Yahoo Inc and popular social-networking outfit Facebook Inc have finally agreed to forge a broad Internet advertising and licensing partnership on Friday, laying to rest their dueling patent lawsuits.

Los Angeles — After a high-profile break-up in May, Facebook and General Motors may be ready to patch things up. General Motors Co., which back then said it would discontinue to advertise on Facebook Inc. on the eve of the social network’s initial public offering in May, are discussing with the site about resuming the […]

San Francisco — In case you missed the news, following the confrontation between Samsung and Apple, as the latter was granted an injunction and sales ban on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone, which was pulled from the Google Play store recently amidst a patent dispute with Apple, will resume selling by next week after an […]

Mountain View, California — Late last May, Google Places was renamed Google+ Local. And now it was only a matter of time before newly branded service started spreading to the mobile space, and iOS looks to be its first landing spot through a rebadge of the Google Places app. The search engine giant has just […]

San Francisco — Following Apple’s controversial decision to discard all Google Maps services — including Street View — from the default Maps application from its upcoming iOS 6 release, but Google has found another home for its popular service. Popular navigation app Navigon is releasing a solid update to its iOS navigation app early this […]

New York — Flash, an essential technological innovation of yesteryear is now losing it charms, and now it seems the days of Adobe’s omnipresent Player are numbered. As most mobile sites are rapidly transitioning to advanced platforms like HTML5 and Adobe AIR, Adobe on its blog revealed that it will not be developing Flash player […]

Mountain View, California — Just a few days after the conclusion of I/O, Google is already on the warpath and shuttering aging products left and right. And, on the eve of the July 4 holiday, Google announced further “spring cleaning” plans, which will see the shutdown of several products, including its Mini enterprise search appliance, […]

San Francisco — Online research and audience analytics firm Nielsen has just snaffled ad tech startup Vizu, a move that will enhance its cross-platform measurement service and help the company optimize its real-time ad effectiveness technology.

London — If you are keen on spending your whole time this summer in London for the Olympics, then do not forget to carry your smartphone or tablet with you. Global web search giant Google has finally released its indoor mapping service for the U.K. residents, and maybe more importantly tourists, will now have the […]