2013

London -- Riding on the heels of the recent U.S. lawsuit against Google for Safari tracking, a new privacy battle against the Web giant is heating up in the U.K. as a group of Apple's Safari web browser users have initiated their own legal campaign against Google over privacy concerns. The group asserts that Google dodged Safari's security settings to install cookies which tracked their movements on the internet. (more…)

Dubai -- In view of its rising interest in the region, micro-blogging outfit Twitter Inc., late last week commenced advertising services in the Middle East and North Africa, in association with an Egyptian digital advertising agency Connect Ads, as the social media firm seeks to exploit a tripling of its regional subscriber base following its widespread use during the Arab Spring protests in the region over the past year. (more…)

Mountain View, California -- If you passionately enjoy using Google Slides you will be delighted to learn that the company recently released the latest version of its Docs presentation software, Google Slides, to its suite of offline applications, which enable users to create, edit and comment, as it tries to play a spoiler role with the official releases of Microsoft Office 2013 and the home user version of Office 365 right around the corner. (more…)

San Francisco - In a surprising turn of events over the weekend, social network colossus Facebook Inc is clearly appearing aggressive in implementing its policies and is giving no data love to Yandex, a Russian search engine that released a mobile application, Wonder, that was something like Facebook's graph search mixed with Siri.

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Mountain View, California - Barely a year ago, many people ignored Google's Google+ social network as a "virtual ghost town." According to an interesting report released recently, claims that while Twitter, the current darling of social networks, continues to attract active users, but Google+ has finally surpassed it to claim second position in social spheres based on active monthly users around the globe, showing basically what we all knew was coming, and that is the rise and dominance of Google in the social network arena. (more…)

Los Angeles -- Brevity is the soul of Twitter, and the 140 character micro-blogging outfit has kept it alive in its video-tweeting service. On Thursday, Twitter unveiled Vine, a New York startup that the company acquired last October, an addition to the social network that allows users to embed six second videos for iPhone and iPod Touch that lets anyone create and share short looping videos within their tweets.

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San Francisco -- Relentlessly striving to help marketers better track sales, social network humongous Facebook on Tuesday took another stride in making its advertising more accountable for media buyers; launched a new conversion measurement system across its global footprint, allowing advertisers to measure the return on investment of their Facebook ads by tracking user actions such as registrations and shopping cart checkouts motivated by people seeing the ads.

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Mountain View, California -- In a fresh move to keep pace with its rivals, search engine behemoth Google on Wednesday announced that it is revamping its image search feature on Google.com that its claims is faster, more beautiful, and more reliable. The company also says that users will see the new look “in the next few days” but would not impart any more specific beyond that. (more…)

Sunnyvale, California - With Marissa Mayer at the helm, mobile is not the only focus for Yahoo, which continues to flex its M&A muscles, with a special focus on startups with smart teams that have made well-designed apps. Yahoo Inc., on Tuesday announced that it has acquired Snip.it, a Pinterest-like service that allows news consumers to clip, organize articles and sharing them with groups. (more…)

Redmond, Washington - Rumors are swirling in tech circles claims that Microsoft executives is in talks with Dell CEO Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners-one of the private equity firms that was initially named last week in news reports about Dell going private after more than two dozen years as a public company, according to reports by The Wall Street Journal and CNBC.

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