Los Angeles -- Early this week the net was abuzz with news that the popular social networking giant Facebook might announce an indigenous phone, but on Tuesday, the company finally unleashed its search capabilities dubbed as “Graph Search” that could be a real game changer at the world's leading social media network in a budding challenge to Google, LinkedIn, Yelp and other Internet firms, according to one analyst.
San Francisco -- In a surprising turn of events, the baffled photo-sharing site Instagram, owned by Facebook, has sent an helpful e-mail to users, reminding them that an earlier version of its policies that caused such a ruckus back in December will be replaced with the new terms of service and privacy policy that would go into effect this Saturday, January 19th (but without the clause that caused most of the fuss).
Mountain View, California - With the rise of Siri, the future of Web browsing has finally dawned! Barely days after releasing Chrome 24 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, Google surprised the tech industry on Monday by announcing the release of Chrome 25 beta. With the latest release, the company is giving developers some big new voice-centered tools among the new features, which consists of voice support via the newly added Web Speech API, a new tab page with a search box, and the blocking of silent extension installation.
Sunnyvale, California -- In a fresh bit to try and tempt users away from the sheen radiance of Google, Yahoo, over the weekend announced on its Search blog and Twitter account that it has--at long last--integrated Flickr search results into Yahoo Image Search results on the Web, tablets and mobile phones.
Mountain View, California -- Relentlessly striving to capitalize on its e-commerce solutions, search giant Google over the weekend introduced a real-time new digital coupon offering called Zavers by Google, a service that empower retailers and manufacturers to reward their loyal customers with relevant coupons. The company, however, said that it would be demonstrating the product first-hand to visitors of Google's booth at the annual National Retail Federation (NFR) Convention & Expo in New York, which runs through Tuesday. (more…) 
Los Angeles -- Of late, it has become apparent that social networking humongous Facebook has been exploring various ways for new revenue streams. But, over the weekend, its ambition cracked open as the blogosphere has been swirling with sizzling idea that Facebook is running a test where it is possible to message people who are not your friends. Well, according to technology blog Mashable's discovery, if you wish to place your message in a more visible position to CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Inbox, then its only possible if for a cool $100.