New York — In an attempt to thwart growing menace from hackers, popular micro-blogging outfit Twitter this week took another step towards securing its network by joining a short-list of major web brands that have turned on the secure browsing capability, HTTPS, by default.

Los Angeles — Squawk! After more than a year in development, the wildly popular game “Angry Birds” has finally found a friendly nest amongst Facebook’s humongous 800 million members hours before its official launch in Jakarta, tech site Mashable reported.

Redmond, Washington — Sensing the sheen sounds of social media clattering from around the world, everyone wants to socialize everything–possibly even capitalism itself, and on Tuesday, software giant Microsoft already having close ties with Facebook, has hitched up with Bazaarvoice to push a new social advertising solution called People Powered Stories.

Redmond, Washington — After successfully launching MSN UK for iPad in the UK App Store at the end of January, now the software giant is expanding the list of its entertainment options, finally launched its MSN iPad app in the U.S. App Store, promising Apple tablet users a magazine-like experience featuring content assembled from sites […]

India — In another annoying act, Chinese hackers under the garb of EvilShadowTeam struck India’s online Microsoft store over the weekend. The software giant Microsoft is now examining a “limited compromise” of the company’s online store in India, the company said Monday.

New York — In a surprising victory for Britain’s popular video search outfit Blinkx–that has won the right to power AOL’s video search. Internet leader AOL announced Monday that it has forged alliance with Blinkx, to replace Truveo as AOL’s video search feature, briefly spiking its shares this morning following the announcement.

Seoul — Troubles Again! South Korea’s communications regulator, Korea and Communications Commission (KCC), over the weekend reportedly said that it is reviewing global search engine giant Google’s upcoming privacy policy changes–that combine a user’s information across its services into a single trove–and hinted it will take action if these are found to violate local laws.

San Francisco — Google Wallet is an ambitious experiment, to say the least. But, recently in a drastic move to prevent its consumer’s from being ripped off, the search engine behemoth Google has temporarily terminated prepaid credit card functionality on its Google Wallet mobile app to find a “permanent fix” after a security flaw was […]

Mountain View, California — In quest of gaining and disseminating knowledge–Craig Silverstein, the first employee Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin appointed, has just revealed that he is parting his way with the company in order to serve the popular online learning organization Khan Academy.

  Mountain View, California — In a novel move to expand its flourishing Chrome Web browser, search engine behemoth Google has just released a beta version of Chrome for Android smartphones and tablets Tuesday, presenting a mobile version of the popular desktop web browser after a very long wait.