Los Angeles — In a surprising turn of events, in order to put more talent on their platform team, micro-blogging outfit Twitter has made another acquisition to expand its app development capabilities, confirmed acqui-hiring the team from mobile app development startup Cabana. The particulars behind the deal are still incognito, but visual drag-and-drop app creation […]

San Francisco — Constantly striving to safeguard its one billion users, social networking giant Facebook Inc., earlier this year, debuted their Anti-Virus Marketplace which allows users to download free trials of various anti-virus software. Today the company announced an expansion of its Anti-Virus Marketplace that will see the company partner with seven new companies and […]

Mountain View, California — At the PubCon conference in Las Vegas today, Google has finally launched a new and long-awaited “Disavow Links” tool, allowing webmasters dump links into their site that are hurting search rankings. Though Google warns: Use with care.

Sunnyvale, California – Resuming office after a two-week maternity leave, Yahoo’s chief executive, Marissa Mayer, shocked the industry with a new delivery by appointing one of her former colleagues from Google Inc. Henrique de Castro as its chief operating officer, to help revive growth at a Web company beset by sagging sales.

Los Angeles – In a surprising turn of events, micro-blogging outfit Twitter has confirmed that some users are currently unable to access the service this evening. Whereas the social network is still available to many, others are being greeted with the message that the network is “over capacity”.

Mountain View, California – Searching Gmail is arduous, and we all know it. Hence, Google is slowly but surely taking another tentative step into personal search, creating a new field trial today that not only helps you find emails within Gmail, but also pulls relevant results into Google searches.

Munich, Germany — Trouble is brewing for Google-owned Motorola Mobility. The Redmond Vole has been waging war in a German courtroom against Motorola Mobility, over the weekend confirmed that it will expand an infringement case against none other than Google, the smartphone maker’s parent company for an ongoing patent case against Motorola in Germany.

San Francisco — The days of using thumbnails to drive clicks to your bizarrely created YouTube videos — thereby placing them higher in the search results — are over. Now, in a bid to boost the time users spend on the site, YouTube today announced that it will adjust its search rankings to prioritize videos […]

Reston, VA — According to analytics firm comScore, which has just released its latest U.S. search engine rankings figures, and it probably is not going to surprise you at all to hear that, for the month of September, Google remained the reigning king, while things are not looking too good for Yahoo.

New Delhi – In a move that would surprisingly delight its millions of users in India, search engine behemoth Google has added India to its list of over 50 countries, extending its free SMS service from Gmail. The new service allows Indian Gmail users to send an SMS from a Gmail window to a mobile […]