New York — The original architects of Napster music-sharing site, Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning, on Tuesday unleashed a new video service called Airtime, which allows people to chat online using their Facebook accounts.

Mountain View, California — Relentlessly striving to expand the kind of information available to its valued online shoppers via its Trusted Stores program, search engine colossus Google has just beefed up its online retailing smarts by acquiring KikScore, a US company that ascribes scores to e-commerce businesses based on their level of reputation and trustworthiness.

Redmond, Washington — Just last month micro-blogging outfit Twitter enabled ‘Do Not Track’ option and now the software heavyweight Microsoft has rattled online advertisers by enabling the “Do Not Track” technology by default in the Windows 8 Release Preview. The commonly despised feature will be turned on by default in Internet Explorer 10, a move […]

San Francisco — It seems like the rumors were true: In a surprising move to further beefing up its nearly year-old social network, Google+, and as rumored, Google has finally snaffled social-messaging and advertising company Meebo, a move that will help the search giant fill out its growing Google+ team, according to media reports.

Redmond, Washington — Since its initial launch three years back, late last week Microsoft’s Bing search engine is now getting the much delayed social media attention, as the software maker has just unwrapped the new social features for its Bing search engine to the public in the US, with an emphasis on its new three-column […]

San Francisco — Venturing to explore the world’s most famous attractions seems like a far away dream to see them, but Google does not want those who are short of time or strapped for cash to be left out of seeing icons like Stonehenge, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa. The search engine giant over […]

With a mission to offer the cheapest and simplest prepaid cell phone solutions to travelers with no contracts, bills and credit checks, Sebastian Harrison founded Cellular Abroad in 2002. His only goal was and is to make mobile communication affordable and simple for each and every person who travels abroad. Read on to know more […]

New York — Relentlessly striving to beef up its offerings to Facebook Page administrators, adding features that were previously only available in third party apps, with the latest allowing them to assign administrator security capabilities and schedule posts. They can now delegate restricted administrator rights to other people.

Los Angeles — In the midst of a daunting backlash about its disappointing IPO, social media outfit Facebook is taking steps to leverage its advertising potential, with the quiet roll out of Promoted Posts for Brand Pages, a new feature that provides marketers with new tools for managing their presence on the social network, while […]

  Mountain View, California — Relentlessly striving to augment its services with social capabilities, Google on Wednesday introduced Google+ Local, a new social local search experience that will spread across Google+, Google Search and Google’s mobile search. It has teamed up with Zagat to implement the new feature encouraging users to review local businesses and […]