Google seems to be loving the privacy lawsuits, being filed against itself. Till now, it has been forcing users indirectly to participate on Google+, but here is an extreme direct step, in real terms. Those new users, who want to sign up for a Gmail account, Google has made a Google+ account mandatory for them. […]

Google Plus seems to be all over the news at present. The search engine giant has chosen a diversified approach for Google+. One of the latest developments saw a post from Shana Gitnik of the Google+ Photos team, revealing a new feature for Google+ users. This feature notes that a Google+ user can now record […]

New York — Continuing strong on its recent acquisition spree, microblogging outfit Twitter continues to beef up its arsenal of solutions while consolidating any type of competition with the acquisition of Summify, a startup based in Vancouver that summarizes content in people’s Google, Facebook and Twitter social media feeds and delivers a daily digest via […]

Los Angeles — In its ambitious game-plan of expanding its reach by extending additional services, popular social media humongous Facebook last fall unveiled first moves to position itself as an entertainment hub for its users is now gaining momentum. Five major ticket sellers, including Ticketmaster, StubHub, ScoreBig, Eventbrite and TicketFly, launched an online store on […]

Washington — Just when it is presumed that the romance between Nokia and Microsoft could not get any more serious, think again. Both companies have forged an unusual deal, and soon Bing maps on every computer and smartphone will display the Nokia branding in the near future, according to Nokia CEO, Stephen Elop, in an […]

Early this week, Facebook unveiled a host of new apps, which counted to more than 60 in total. These apps would be integrated with its new Timeline user interface. There is more news related to the Timeline. The social networking giant has announced that it will start approving Timeline apps running on its Open Graph […]

Mountain View, California — According to a poll conducted recently claims that by 2015, more than 4 billion dollars will be spend on mobile advertising. In an attempt to keep pace with the growing demand of the service, Google introduced a couple of new advanced targeting options for its cash-cow AdWords mobile advertisers that are […]

#googleplusupdate is trending and again, it is an effort to build on Google’s social network. Two new tools are introduced in this update. One is Auto Hashtag, which seems to be borrowed from Twitter, while the other is Photo Text, which brings back memories of the basic LOLCats effect.

Sunnyvale, California — Yahoo Inc.’s Jerry Yang, who co-founded the most popular web portal nearly 17 years ago and had an ill-fated stint as chief executive, abruptly relinquished his board seat and “all other positions” with the struggling Web giant, the company announced on Tuesday.

San Francisco — Even though Adobe Inc., may have discontinued development on its mobile Flash products, but the company promised to keep offering support and updates to its users to ensure compatibility and security. To that end, both Adobe Flash and AIR received updates today, bringing with them bug fixes, enhancements, and compatibility fixes for […]