Los Angeles — With the rise of popularity comes animosity! Internet’s much-hyped social networking giant Facebook Inc. was sued by Austin, Texas-based Kickflip Inc., which does business as Gambit, claiming that the social media giant violated antitrust laws in the social gaming currency market with its entry into the sector and resulting terms, according to […]

New York – It seems that Anonymous, the self-styled sentry of the internet, has threatened to shut down Zynga and Facebook, days after the gaming giant announced it was laying off 5 per cent of its workforce. A posting on the AnonNews site this morning states that layoffs at Zynga will help to bring about […]

Los Angeles – In its quest to make some extra buck, micro-blogging outfit Twitter is trying to analyze which of its users are male and which are female. And so far, it has gotten its prediction science down to a 90 percent accuracy rate.

Sunnyvale, California – In an attempt to take the struggling internet pioneer to new heights, newly appointed Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer over the weekend tweeted that it has purchased Stamped, a year-old mobile recommendations-focused startup along with a team of talented ex-Googlers, to help the company catch up to competitors far ahead in the all-important […]

New York — Taking on competition from Apple and Google’s Android, officially inaugurated what may be the company’s most challenging marketing effort yet, Microsoft has unveiled its next generation operating system, Windows 8, in New York City, a radical reinvention of the world’s best-selling computer operating system for the touchscreen age, in what many believe […]

Mountain View, California — Relentlessly striving to simplify things for its users, global search engine leader Google has recently gone to remarkable heights and marched through the jungle in the name of comprehensive, accurate mapping to provide users with great directions to extraordinary places. Now soon enough, visitors to the Grand Canyon will be able […]

New York — In its quest to expand beyond US and grab a bigger slice of the European pie, the online review and recommendation service Yelp announced today that it has acquired its European rival Qype for $50 million, accelerating its international expansion with increased focus on Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Austria, Ireland, […]

Mountain View, California — In a surprising move that would make it easier for users to access its Drive cloud-storage service on the Chrome browser, Google early this week quietly renamed its Google Drive applications, while releasing its Documents, Spreadsheets, and Presentations apps as standalone apps inside the Chrome Web Store.

Los Angeles — In an attempt to spread its wings beyond 140 character texts, popular micro-blogging outfit Twitter is signaling to agencies that it has fully grown up and ready to service them the way the likes of Google and AOL do. The company has lured away another Google executive Matt Derella as its new […]

Redmond, Washington — It goes without saying that Microsoft has already loaded Windows 8 with a bunch of apps from the get-go, and just in the nick of time for the launch of Windows 8, Skype is getting a new modern-style app to reap the benefits of all the operating system’s features when Microsoft is […]