San Francisco — In a surprising turn of events over the weekend, micro-blogging outfit Twitter has filed a lawsuit in a federal court in San Francisco against five of its most aggressive spam enablers that it accuses of creating tools for spamming, as the social media firm battles a wave of automated tweets barraging real […]

New York — In its latest attempt to extend more frills, Google has just pushed out a trio of updates for its wildly popular Gmail app and Play Books for Android, which includes a new slate of features primarily available only for Honeycomb tablet users, as well as added more feature to Street View for […]

Mountain View, California –– Over the weekend Google unveiled numerous updates to some of its products, but an important one to its cash-cow the AdWords. The company has announced two new features that intends to help advertisers create ads that are more relevant to local customers and the ability to target more than 30,000 ZIP […]

Los Angeles — It is a familiar gripe: Technology makes communication more efficient, but less personal. Skype may be the most popular consumer VoIP service in the world, but it faces numerous challenges. Now Microsoft, in its latest Skype ad campaign, wants you to believe that its service is the only truly human way to […]

Redmond, Washington — In what seems like a preliminary test before Windows 8, software behemoth Microsoft has quietly released an application called Bing Desktop, a combination of search toolbar and desktop manager for Windows 7, via the Microsoft Download Center today.

Sunnyvale, California — Open source is the crux of the development community in today’s technology space where web applications is a booming segment. In order to keep pace with its rivals, Yahoo early this week announced the availability of Mojito, an open source JavaScript framework developed with Web developers in mind, which is part of […]

Mountain View, California — Amid several high-profile departures from its Google Wallet team, the search engine behemoth has endorsed a new deal to acquire New York-based payment technology company TxVia in a bid to bolster its Wallet product, which has recently taken a PR battering.  

Brussels — In a novel twist of events, online travel agency TripAdvisor has become the latest company to take aim at Google. Global search engine giant Google is under growing threat of being accused of anti-competitive and unfair behavior by the European Commission. The move follows a similar one by Expedia, which filed an antitrust […]

San Francisco — The escalating confrontation over patents continues between social media humongous Facebook and internet pioneer Yahoo. In its response to Yahoo’s patent infringement suit filed last month, Facebook is not only defending itself, but on Tuesday countersues Yahoo of infringing 10 of its patents in several of Yahoo’s most popular services including the […]