New York — AOL, Inc. in its quest to compete with industry rivals, attempts to revitalize its emerging marketing unit, and over the weekend the company succeeded in appointing industry expert Erika Nardini, to assume the new position of vice president, head of marketing solutions for AOL Advertising.

San Francisco – While Google already announced support for pushing YouTube video straight to Google TV devices, the video-sharing hub YouTube just announced that its “Send to TV” feature that turns mobile devices into YouTube remote controls is coming to TVs from LG, Panasonic, Sony and others, the video site announced today.

New York – Relentlessly striving to popularize itself in the social sphere, emerging social bookmarking giant Pinterest has quietly kicked off 2013 with an acquisition of its own, its first in fact, by scooping up a tasty recipe aggregator Punchfork, the startup announced Thursday.

Los Angeles – With the new year, comes new strategy to keep the humongous audience glued to the social media network Facebook as it continues to fine-tune has just announced a spiffy new feature. Both (iOS/Android) users will be seeing an update for their Facebook Messenger app that would allow users to send voice messages […]

Los Angeles — In its battle to cut costs, social games publisher Zynga Inc confirmed on Monday that it has finally instituted its cost-reduction plan that the company talked about back in November in the wake of its fast falling share price. The drastic plan involved bidding goodbye to PetVille, FishFille, Mafia Wars 2, and […]

New York — It is almost a rule of thumb for any new startup looking to make its bones in the real world–being sued for stealing the idea… A New Jersey man alleges that ideas he conceived for a site called RendezVoo wrongly wound up as integral parts of the wildly flourishing site Pinterest, according […]

Sunnyvale, California — Strictly abiding by its commitment as planned in October, internet pioneer, Yahoo, after 15 years, completed its exit from South Korean market before the end of the year, according to a brief report by the Yonhap News Agency.

New York – In a surprising turn of events, popular photo-sharing service Instagram’s attempt to modify its terms of service antics has inspired not only a user backlash but also-now-a class-action lawsuit. The service, now under the wing of Facebook, was slammed with what Reuters said is the first civil lawsuit over the firm’s controversial […]

San Francisco – If you no longer enjoy watching your favorite program on regular television, then perhaps you might be interested in switching it up with Google TV devices. LG Electronics is making a big bet on Google TV and plans to introduce an extended lineup at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las […]

San Francisco — Microsoft earns its bread-and-butter via its two major software products that generate the vast majority of the company’s revenue. But, in a precisely planned move to uproot its dominion, arch rival Google has steadily been pushing Google Apps, its own online productivity suite, a direct alternatives to Microsoft’s Excel, PowerPoint and Word […]