San Francisco — In an attempt to streamline payments to musicians and publishers, Google owned video-sharing network YouTube said it acquired RightsFlow Inc., a small company that specializes in helping artists and labels license and tracks and processes royalty payments to songwriters and music publishers.

Google has been in the race for almost everything, but still needs to patiently wait to reach supremacy in many cases. In case of its OS, Android, has achieved its first big mark as its app download list has hit 10bn. That is a long journey, but still it is no close to the Apple […]

Google is coming up with a magazine-like format for mobile devices, which would see the search engine giant combining forces with a crowd of companies packaging digital content. This app would be in stiff competition with Flipboard, one app which is more than just famous on the iOS platform. Google named this app as “Currents”.

Samsung and Apple have been fighting for almost six months now, to target each other with patent rockets. The year is coming to an end and it seems the almighty has endowed his blessings on both these companies equally. In Australia, Samsung was all smiles, while France saw Apple giggling its victory.

San Francisco — Twitter Inc. on Thursday stunned it competitors with a mind-boggling announcement since Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s creator, returned to the company as an executive in March. The popular micro-blogging outfit rolled out a major redesign that depicts a new simplified design as well as the addition of four new tabs to help users […]

Mountain View, California — Do you check your Gmail religiously, but still lacks to make your way over to Google+ to see what your friends are up to? Well, Gmailers can now rejoice, as Google’s strong commitment to Circles, the contact grouping feature in Google+ is now tightly integrated with its Gmail and Contacts services, […]

New York — In an attempt to further colonize areas of the web currently outside its domain, popular social media outfit Facebook, reaping the success of its “Like” button and the recent introduction of “Subscribe” for profiles, on Thursday released the option to add a “Subscribe” button for third-party Web sites, allowing site visitors to […]

There was a confirmation received from Facebook that the social media giant has restructured its focus on privacy and communication. Yet again, the social networking site, will undergo a restructuring, to keep privacy issues at bay. That might not really be possible, but the efforts show that they are working hard to achieve their target. […]

Google is shelling out a handsome amount yet again to build on a new data center in Hong Kong. It was noted that the search engine giant would pump in $300 million with thoughts to keep the data center in running by 2013 as it would beef up infrastructure to keep pace with rapidly rising […]

App developers have always been in demand, but the revenue cut they receive was a matter of concern. But things seem to be switching for their good. However, the efforts to be incorporated would even be more. Microsoft, the software giant has opted to lure app developers to increase its app base. A smart move, […]