Mountain View, California — In recognition of the age old Landsat program, search engine behemoth Google on Monday announced that it has partnered with the USGS and Carnegie Mellon University to bring tidbits of timelapse videos of the Earth’s surface from the Landsat satellite program, in honor of the program’s 40th anniversary.

Redmond, Washington — Barely a week ago, software maker Microsoft unveiled new version of its Office suite software, which comprises of cloud computing, tablet compatibility, and surprisingly, the company does not seem to have any plan in the pipleline to slow down and give the completion a chance to redeem themselves, hence, now it has […]

Los Angeles — Following its recently disappointing IPO, the social networking giant Facebook continues to focus on advertising revenue by testing new options, and according to a recent TechCrunch report, the social media leader has commenced testing a new type of advertisement called “Sponsored Results” ads, which takes advantage of the social network’s search bar […]

Los Angeles — As athletes march into London’s Olympic Stadium this Friday, micro-blogging outfit Twitter and NBCUniversal are expected to announce Monday a partnership that will host a page that collects the millions of tweets expected to be sent by athletes, fans, and TV personalities during the Olympic Games as a sort of official narrator […]

Mountain View, California — In a relentless attempt to embellish its existing services with more goodies, search engine giant Google over the weekend stuffed its mail arsenal with a popular email app for Mac and iOS named Sparrow, considered amongst the best alternative to Apple’s native mail app on iOS in a deal valued at […]

San Francisco — Keen to make its dominance in the mobile arena, social networking outfit Facebook’s talent hunt for mobile development continues. The social giant has just acqui-hired Acrylic Software, a Vancouver-based developer of Mac and iOS apps for managing your RSS feeds.

Los Angeles — In a move to further expand its dominance, popular micro-blogging outfit Twitter has taken the most apparent next step in its quest to become an attractive destination for advertisers: It has just unveiled today a new advertising tool dubbed as targeted promoted tweets, which means advertisers can send tailored messages based on […]

Mountain View, California — Relentlessly striving to boost more activity to its Google+ network, search engine titan Google this week released an experimental “Share” button that appears in place of the +1 button in English-language search results, allowing Google+ users to share and comment on website links directly with their Google+ friends. Sean Liu, product […]

New York — Striving to keep pace with modern trend, business-focused social network LinkedIn has unfurled a pretty new homepage with a most “simpler and more modern design,” resembling the design aesthetics of Facebook and Google+’s newsfeeds, aiming to make the site display more-relevant news and encourage engagement, the site revealed in a blog post […]

San Francisco — In a largely troubling atmosphere if you wish to post footage of a protest, but does not want to reveal the protesters faces, you can easily blur faces now, thanks to YouTube. The Google-owned video-sharing outfit YouTube is rolling out a new tool that will empower users to automatically blur the faces […]