New Delhi — Indian developers can now rejoice as Google has finally announced that developers and mobility content development companies in the country can begin selling Android apps on Google’s Android platform, Google Play App store.

Los Angeles – In a rapidly growing mobile space, social-networking humongous Facebook, following its new Android Developer Center and the biggest overhaul to its Android SDK, the company over the weekend unveiled an update to their native Android app, and it focuses entirely on photos. You can download the latest version now from the official […]

BRASILIA – In an unfortunate incident, Google is facing a boycott from more than 100 Brazilian newspaper publishers who have signed an agreement to opt out of Google News, over crawling of news headlines which suggests Latin America’s digital publishing sector is maturing, it was revealed today.

New York – In an attempt to focus their resources elsewhere, social-networking giant Facebook has quietly commenced phasing out its Questions product from personal profiles, a move that is not particularly surprising considering that it earlier this year removed the product from the homepage sidebar, but that does not mean it is completely giving up […]

New York — In a recent development to generate more revenue, social networking outfit Facebook has upped its advertising offering with a feature that allows the same page to appear in different languages in different countries. The company has announced Global Pages, a new structure that provides localized experiences for a brand’s customers, which is […]

Los Angeles –– In a move that would commence local censorship, following a firestorm of controversy over anti-Semitic tweets in France, Twitter has apparently blocked access in Germany to the account of a neo-Nazi group known as Besseres Hannover due to its alleged hate speech. The move is the first implementation of Twitter’s country-specific blocking. […]

Redmond, Washington — In an attempt to meet the needs of growing social, email, and mobile channels, and just ahead of its Q2 2013 earnings announcement, Microsoft on October 17, announced that it has completed the acquisition of marketing automation software company ‘MarketingPilot’ for an undisclosed amount, which now becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of […]

Redmond, Washington – In the race against stiff competition from Amazon EC2 and Rackspace, Microsoft is expanding its new ‘devices and services company’ mission to heart on the enterprise side of the house, too. It just announced today that it has acquired cloud-integrated storage device, StorSimple, the compliment to its cloud-based infrastructure, Azure.

Mountain View, California – While Apple continues to review its maps strategy, but search engine leader Google in its never-ending quest to dominate the global mapping scene only seems to get more well-rounded, has just rolled out a new pair of APIs designed to help organizations build their own location-enabled applications.

Los Angeles – It seems that Facebook Inc. is not content with 1 billion users and in its bid to gain more Indian users on its network, the social media giant has silently rolled out a promotional scheme in the country, under which every the company is offering Rs. 50 (approx $1) worth of talktime […]