Mountain View, California — After being available as a beta release for more than a year, in a largely expected move, search engine giant Google has announced the closure of its original analytics platform in favor of its updated service in real-time, reports confirm.

Redmond, Washington — Barely two months after Bing unveiled a major facelift to their search results pages, including the nifty sidebar functionality, which promises to integrate with popular social media platforms such as Twitter, Foursquare, LinkedIn, and Google Plus. Today, Bing has announced the first new social sidebar integration since that big launch — and […]

Mountain View, California — Almost a century after the great Antarctic explorers crossed that icy continent, many of their distinguished destinations remain inaccessible — at least on foot. But, prominent search leader Google on Tuesday announced the addition of panoramic imagery of historic Antarctic locations as part of the juggernaut’s World Wonders site, joining Asian, […]

Los Angeles — Striving to make its dominance more tempting, popular micro-blogging outfit Twitter is tirelessly keeping busy this summer with a slew of updates to its line of products, and now the 140 character service is tidying up TweetDeck with yet another updated version 1.5 for web and desktop client has been released and […]

Sunnyvale, California — In a surprising move by struggling Sunnyvale, Calif.-based web pioneer Yahoo Inc. that shook Silicon Vally tech titans on Monday as it announced what some may call a coup, wooing one of Google’s most talented execs Marissa Mayer as new chief executive from Tuesday, a surprise pick for its third CEO in […]

Redmond, Washington — In a novel display of innovation, world’s biggest software maker Microsoft Corp. has been radically following the tradition for change with Windows 8, and the next version of Microsoft Office, unveiled on Monday, is a dramatic departure from the software that millions of users have come to know, revamped to stay popular […]

Los Angeles — In order to give concerned marketers peace of mind and legally protect brands that advertise products meant for audlts, popular micro-blogging outfit Twitter in association with Buddy Media has unleashed a new tool for screening younger social media users, a particularly significant concern for alcohol brands.

Los Angeles — If it catches you doing something suspicious, it will call the cops! In its latest attempt to keep a stringent check on unlawful activities, social media giant Facebook has added monitoring to its array of data-mining capabilities, scanning your posts and chats for criminal activity. If the social outfit detects any fishy […]

Mountain View, California — In a surprising display of innovation, Google is making it easy to move or merge Google+ accounts data with a new Google+Takeout tool, so that all circles and circle information can now be stored in just one account. The Web giant announced today the launch of the “Google+ circles transfer tool” […]

San Francisco — Relentlessly striving to keep pace with its rivals in the mobile arena, social networking outfit Facebook this morning announced that it has acquired the team behind Spool, a San Francisco-based startup that developed a mobile-bookmarking service, similar to Instapaper and Pocket.