Mountain View, California — In a fresh move to soothe busy-bees about giving a perfect present to someone, search engine behemoth Google is now following the footsteps of its arch rivals Amazon and Apple, today officially confirmed rumors that it is rolling out gift cards that customers can use to purchase apps, movies, music and […]

Mountain View, California — With a steep fall in the number of security researchers submitting bugs for Chromium has resulted in Google upping its bounties. Google yesterday increased the bounties for its Chromium vulnerability rewards program for reporting bugs in Chrome, saying that they will be handing out bonuses on top of existing rewards to […]

Los Angeles — Relentlessly striving to keep pace with its rivals in the mobile space, micro-blogging outfit continues its shopping spree with its latest acquisition of iOS testing firm Clutch.io, a company that prides itself in devising an iOS framework for A/B testing, the process of quickly testing the effectiveness of one design or feature […]

San Francisco — Grappling to appease investor concerns about its growth prospects as more users access the service from wireless devices, where its advertising options have been limited, social media humongous Facebook will shortly commence testing a new way for advertisers to reach users that involves placing unsolicited ads into users’ news feeds regardless of […]

Sunnyvale, California — In a surprising move, internet pioneer Yahoo unveiled plans for an upcoming web-streamed talk show Monday that will be hosted by some notable guests, including “Lost” co-creator Damon Lindelof and journalist Maria Shriver.

Mountain View, California — It is apparently evident that the world’s most popular Google is known as the search company that makes money on advertising, and it continues to go where the money is has moved further into the travel business on Monday, announced that it is acquiring travel guide provider Frommer’s from John Wiley […]

San Francisco — In a fresh investigation conducted by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has discovered that the social media hub Facebook deceived application developers into paying $375 for a phony security authentication, the latest to come out of the privacy investigation Facebook settled on Friday.

Mountain View, California — Of late, web titan Google has been busy formulating improvements to its search engine and over the weekend updated its mobile search system to make quick answers-style search results for certain queries ‘richer, more beautiful, and more interactive,’ across a variety of subject areas such as flight schedules, conversions and a […]

Redmond, Washington — In an attempt to boost sales of its much touted innovation, software maker Microsoft is prepping for a busy holiday 2012 season by revving up its retail strategy to sell the Surface tablet and other Microsoft products by opening temporary pop-up brick-and-mortar stores in about a dozen cities in North America.

New York — Struggling to keep with the advancement AOL is rolling out a new version of its connected TV app, AOL On Network, is getting a new look and expanding to more platforms with a new video ad-serving capability, the company said over the weekend. Interestingly, the latest version 2.0 of its connected TV […]