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Twitter Once Again Delivers Breaking News First
31st July 2008
Twitter has been slowly and surely making its way to becoming a personal news wire of sorts.
Time and again the site has been the first to report some world event or breaking news. The latest example of this quick reporting is the earthquake which occurred around Los Angeles on Tuesday morning. More »
Google – Digg Deal Called Off
29th July 2008
Only a few days ago, Google was deep in discussions with Digg, regarding a possible acquisition of the site. It is believed that the term sheet stage had already been cleared. However, sometime last week, Google decided not to go ahead with the deal, and Digg was notified accordingly. More »
Google Plays Second Fiddle To CNN
20th June 2008
A year ago the news network CNN, launched a comprehensive news site, CNN.com. It has now come to light that in just one year, they have beaten the search market leader, where news is concerned. This information was revealed during a survey, which was conducted by Google’s subsidiary DoubleClick. More »
Microsoft News Search Gets A Facelift
21st April 2008
At last some news from Microsoft that has nothing to do with acquiring Yahoo! The Live Search team at Microsoft announced that they have made several modifications to their News Search format. Now the information will be categorized into separate sub headings and the news results page has also been given a facelift. More »
Ask.com Launches (Not So) BigNews
11th February 2008
New rumours doing the rounds last week, hinted at a possible collaboration between Ask.com and Digg have come true. The two have jointly launched a portal called BigNews, which is a social news site not very different from Digg, Propeller, NewsVine, TechMeme or any of the other news aggregator sites that are already popular. More »
Facebook Makes News Feed More Active And Less Spammy
22nd January 2008
Facebook is now taking user privacy and improving the user experience very seriously. As part of its ongoing improvement program the rules for allowing publication of a story have been updated. Henceforth they will only allow actions that have been actively taken by the user to be published to the news feed. More »
Facebook News For The Week
26th October 2007
5th largest online property, fastest growing social network and most recent battleground between Google and Microsoft are all honours bestowed on Facebook. The website boasts over 50 million registered users and is growing so fast that a weekly news summary is perhaps the best way to keep up with it. More »
Google News App On Facebook Doesn’t Quite Cut It
22nd October 2007
Facebook Applications allow third-party programmers to create useful or entertaining little widgets that can be integrated into a person’s Facebook account. Google News has released a Facebook app that allows users to read news, post stories to their profile and share news with their friends. More »
Live Search Updates But Still Lags Behind
27th September 2007
Microsoft Live Search has just launched a major update, their biggest update since their debut in January 2005. The reformed search engine is supposed to be faster, more relevant and easier to use. Instead it looks like not much has changed and the need for Microsoft to catch up with Google, Yahoo! and even Ask is painfully obvious. More »
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