Los Angeles — Immensely disappointing its large number of users, social networking outfit Facebook is facing a backlash from users who are venting anger over a move by the social media giant’s decision to alter all its users’ published email addresses to a facebook.com address.

San Francisco — Adobe Systems Inc., has beefed up its Creative Cloud initiative by making it more tempting than ever has just announced on Tuesday that it is adding its popular image-editing software Lightroom 4 to its Creative Cloud hub for editing and cataloging photos, so subscribers can now fully access the image workflow application.

Redmond, Washington — Following weeks of rumors and reports, as anticipated, software maker Microsoft on Monday officially announced that it had endorsed a deal to buy enterprise social networking outfit Yammer Inc. for $1.2 billion in cash, a transaction that highlights a new trend in business software and perceived shortcomings in Microsoft’s own products. Microsoft […]

San Francisco — In a novel display of surprising innovation, software maker Microsoft’s Bing Maps now is jumping into the mapping game by releasing its biggest update yet, now offering 165 terabytes of new high-resolution birds-eye-view of satellite and aerial imagery of locations all over the Earth, from the Moroccan Mountains to Egypt’s pyramids of […]

Los Angeles — Over the weekend, within hours after it went live, social networking giant Facebook abruptly removed a sneaky feature called “Find Friends Nearby” feature that would let users on mobile devices find other Facebook users nearby, even if they were not friends with them on the popular social media network, and which was […]

Los Angeles — Have you ever posted a comment on Facebook only to realize later that it included grammatical or a typo, or some other more embarrassing blunder? Well, the world’s biggest social media outfit Facebook feels your pain, and over the weekend unleashed an editing feature where you can edit your comments on those […]

Mountain View, California — In a surprising move to keep its cash-cow attractive for its users, search engine giant Google over the weekend reported that it has started rolling out the new “simpler and more beautiful” interface redesign of AdWords that they have previewed a couple of weeks ago to all accounts globally in the […]

Sunnyvale, California — In a novel display of surprising innovation, Yahoo has officially integrated a helpful new folder to its popular webmail service that allows users to view all of their sent and receive photos for the entire period of their email account, aiming to give users a new way to manage and organize all […]

Los Angeles — Popular micro-blogging outfit Twitter boasts some mighty ambitious plans and is gearing up to introduce its promoted tweets and other advertising products to nearly 50 more countries as it seeks additional revenue outside of the U.S., Twitter executives announced at a festival in Cannes, France, Thursday morning. According to a Twitter spokesperson, […]

  Redmond, Washington — Microsoft’s most touted Bing has lately been updating its search engine results pages significantly this year, including an aesthetic and architectural revamp in May, but it seems that Microsoft is not done yet. Today the company announced that image search, which is almost 10 percent of Bing traffic, is getting a […]