Los Angeles – In a shocking instance, a large number of Twitter users have received emails warning their account has been compromised by a third party. Some accounts had been compromised, but the micro-blogging hub Twitter appears to have unintentionally reset the passwords for an undetermined portion of its user base because of a possible […]

New York – Interestingly, there is a page for just about anything you can imagine on the popular social network Facebook – including every friendship. Facebook today announced a big visual update to its Friendship Pages to chronicle the time you have spent with a family member or friend.

Sunnyvale, California – In an effort to deliver real-time content, internet pioneer Yahoo and Samsung have inked a deal to integrate its Broadcast Interactivity service into the company’s Smart TVs to your living room, the companies announced earlier this week.

Redmond, Washington — Confirming rumors that started swirling around yesterday that said Microsoft’s 13-year-old Windows Live Messenger will soon be just a memory. After many years of trying to brand its Live Internet services, Microsoft has finally announced that it is bidding adieu to its Live Messenger chat service, and migrate almost all of its […]

San Francisco — In a surprising move, the popular photo sharing application Instagram is leaving the confines of the smartphone, and is finally launching Web-based profiles, the company announced on Monday.

Mountain View, California – In an attempt to keep its popular home page less weighty, Google is revamping its search results page, moving its search refining tools from the left-hand column to the top and burying some of them under sub-menus, the company announced today in a blog post.

New York – In an effort to make it easier for its growing audience to chat and upload multiple photos on their mobile devices, Facebook has just announced an update to their iOS app, adding new Web features to the mobile version of the social network, the first major update since they launched version 5.0 […]

Los Angeles – In a surprising move to increase transparency amongst its massive user base in its handling of controversial and legally tenuous messages sent via Twitter, the online micro-blogging hub has changed the way it serves copyright takedowns from rights-holders in cases of alleged violations, now “withholding” tweets instead of deleting them.

Los Angeles — In an attempt to make the space look more appealing, social networking giant Facebook is testing out a new, slimmer format for user Timelines, which will feature all posts in a single column on the left and any activity modules in a narrow column on the right.

San Francisco — In a latest move to popularize its promising services, search engine giant Google over the weekend has made a number of new “visual and functional” updates to Google+ Hangouts on the desktop, giving its Hangouts video chat app an updated look and feel, including a new sidebar, a new tool for app […]