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Yahoo! Is Huge, Yet, Very Few Love It
14th June 2011
A lot of press coverage and online buzz is continuously generated surrounding the growth of sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google. In the resulting melee, Yahoo! seems to have been forgotten. More »
Teenagers Blissfully Unaware Of Osama Bin Laden
4th May 2011
The death of Osama Bin laden on Sunday has resulted in a renewal of interest in him. However, according to the Yahoo! Search Blog, teenagers seem to be quite unaware of who he is. More »
Traffic Loss To The Times Due To Paywall
2nd August 2010
Following the trend started by some other publications, The Times of London has recently started the practice of using a paywall to prevent readers from accessing their online content for free. More »
Google Working Toward Paid News
22nd June 2010
Last week, an article in an Italian newspaper leaked out information about a service that Google has been talking about for a while now – a paid model for accessing content through their search engine. More »
Huge Gap In New Vs Old Media News Channels
27th May 2010
The growing popularity of the Internet, in general, and blogs and social media, in particular, has resulted in new sources from which people now collect their news. More »
News Consumers Favour Multiple Sources
5th March 2010
A joint survey conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life project and the Project for Excellence in Journalism studied the habits of American consumers with regard to their preferred sources for daily news. More »
Yahoo! Gets Real Time News Updates
23rd November 2009
Earlier this month we had news that Yahoo! was experimenting with real time search. Now, Yahoo! has officially integrated with Twitter and is featuring results from the micro-blogging platform for hot news topics. More »
Google Trends In Google Search
1st October 2009
With millions of users all over the world using Google search everyday, certain topics are bound to be very popular or ‘Hot’ among searchers at any given point of time. Google will now inform users about the popularity of such topics when a user searches for them. More »
Twitter’s New Homepage
31st July 2009
Twitter has been trying to expand their user base, and as a positive step in that direction, they have changed their homepage. More »
Will eBay Sell Skype? Should Google Buy It?
2nd February 2009
As if the blogosphere was not already rife with rumours of mergers and acquisitions, the latest rumors to add to the lot are that eBay may actually sell off Skype if they get a good offer. More »
Google About To Push The Pedal On Gdrive
30th January 2009
Stories about the launch of Google’s online data storage solution, dubbed GDrive, have started appearing in the tech press once again. According to various sources the GDrive should finally be launched in 2009. More »
AOL Rumoured To Sell Bebo
29th January 2009
The latest rumors doing the rounds are that AOL may be planning to sell Bebo for about $200 million, less than a year after it acquired the social network for $850 million. More »
Will The Microsoft-Yahoo! Deal Be Revived?
14th January 2009
It looks as though there is no end in sight for the Microsoft-Yahoo! acquisition deal. More »
Is Digg Up To Something?
22nd December 2008
According to reports from Business Week, the social news site Digg is not doing too well financially. The results of the first three quarters of 2008 show an income of $6.4 million, while the losses are pegged at $4 million. A similar story ran last year, pegging Digg’s income at $4.8 million and losses at $2.8 million. More »
Twitter On Top Of Mumbai Terrror Attack News
28th November 2008
Even as the terrible attacks that are taking place in the financial capital of India, Mumbai (Bombay) started to unfold, users of Twitter in India started using the micro-blogging service to discuss the events as they happened. Other users wasted no time uploading pictures from the scenes of terror to their Flickr accounts. More »
Twitter Launches Groups In Japan
5th November 2008
Twitter has launched “Groups” in Japan and this service has been named “Twicco”. The service is currently available only in Japanese, though other languages may be added later. More »
Is Twitter A Handy Tool For Terrorists?
29th October 2008
Along with all the advantages using the Internet, such as easy accessibility to information of all types and quick communication, come some disadvantages. If put in the wrong hands, all these technologies can easily be misused and become agents of destruction. More »
Google Blog Search Becomes Content Aggregator
6th October 2008
Google Blog Search has a new homepage that makes it look more like a memetracker. Rather than being a pure search page, the service now resembles the Google News page, where search is combined with content aggregation. More »
Twitter Stops SMS Updates In UK
14th August 2008
Twitter has just announced that they will no longer send SMS updates across the UK. Users in the UK need not panic, however, as they will be able to continue to receive updates from Twitter, on their mobile phones through other means. More »
Digg Recommendation Engine Drives More Diggs
1st August 2008
A month ago Digg launched the ‘Digg Recommendation Engine’, on a trial basis, and made it available to some of Digg’s registered users. Now they have found that the Recommendation Engine was very successful in driving up user activity and social interaction. More »
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