New York — While rumors have been swirling lately that Answers.com was a likely buyer for About.com and its associated properties, but the event took a surprising twist today as IAC’s search division Ask.com has agreed to acquire the content site for US$300 million in cash, noting that synergies between both companies will boost profitability […]

Mountain View, California — Relentlessly striving to outstrip its social rival Facebook that is routinely pushing out new updates to provide an enriched social networking experience for its users, now Google is ensuring that it does not remain left behind in the race has bestowed the folks on Google Plus with more options to control […]

Redmond, Washington — In a surprising turn of events for the first time in over two decades, Redmond software maker has given its company logo a makeover, raised the curtain on its new corporate insignia over the weekend as well as a new look for its upcoming Windows 8 operating system, which is due out […]

Mountain View, California — In its ever-expanding endeavor of captivating fascinating places, Google has embarked on a trip to build the most comprehensive map of Canada’s Arctic region to date, the company announced Wednesday night.

Los Angeles — Relentlessly striving to keep pace with technological advancements, social networking giant Facebook today unveiled a new version of its iOS app it has rebuilt from scratch, which it claims to be twice as fast as the previous version, as well as boost the speed of scrolling through the news feed and opening […]

San Francisco — The price of any freebie in online visual-media has long been ads that run before your favorite clips. Now, the Google-owned video-sharing hub on Wednesday announced that it is now offering advertisers its TrueView in-stream video ad format for mobile devices, which allows users to skip ads in which they do not […]

Los Angeles — While the world’s social network outfit is struggling on Wall Street, and its investors are crying foul, the company continues to build new products and iterate its existing services. And barely a month back, Facebook commenced testing a new feature for advertisers, dubbed as “Sponsored Results” allowing marketers to purchase ads that […]

Redmond, Washington — Bing is continuing to energize its “social search” announced today that it is adding Quora content to the social sidebar, providing users with answers to questions already posed about a keyword, which it introduced earlier this year.

Los Angeles — In an attempt to regulate how users access its micro-blogging service, Twitter APIs are up in arms about Twitter’ new Rules of the Road for APIs. The micro-blogging outfit has sparked outrage as it announces plans that sternly discouraged independent software developers from creating Twitter apps that use its messaging platform.

New York — Slowly but surely, striving to keep tech geeks on their toes with the never-ending acquisition and acqui-hire cycle and API wars, social networking outfit Facebook today said that it is giving developers a new toy: the capability for users of open graph applications to mention their friends in their messages from those […]