Digital News & Reviews

NY Times Sues Huff Post

2011-11-09T03:59:00.000Z

Lisa Belkin, an AOL employee for nearly 30 years, writes on subjects of motherhood and parenting in a 3-year old blog. She calls her blog Motherlode, and distributes her work through The New York...

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Google+ Launches Pages

2011-11-08T12:08:00.002Z

Google has now launched Pages for Google Plus. It is similar to Facebook fan pages where companies, celebrities and other “brands” can interact with their customers and followers by engaging in...

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Google admits threat from Apple's Siri technology

2011-11-06T08:17:00.005Z

Eric Schmidt, Google Chairman admitted to the US Senate antitrust subcommittee that Apple's Siri is a significant development in voice enabled search and could pose a threat to Google Search. He...

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Google to show most recent pages in search results

2011-11-06T05:41:00.000Z

Google has decided to show minute old recently updated pages and hot topics in its search results. This was announced by an Indian born software engineer. Google had to take these steps in...

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Apple Siri Fails Second Day In a Row

2011-11-05T09:26:00.000Z

After acquiring Siri in April 2010, Apple integrated the feature with its iPhone 4S. At the public launch of Siri on Oct.4, Senior Vice President Scott Forestall had showed off the product's...

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Google Plans to enter $150 billion TV Business

2011-11-04T10:06:00.002Z

Google, the internet search giant is looking to offer paid-for TV cable services to consumers, a move that will thrust Google into a $150bn per year market of new competitors. Such a venture has...

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Google Plus Business Hangouts

2011-11-03T08:10:00.002Z

On November 1, 2011 it was announced that Google Plus will begin with Business Profiles. At this point they are limited to only people who have the Google Apps for Business. You can get the...

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Google Begins Business Profiles on Google+

2011-11-01T04:15:00.002Z

Google has begun with Business Profiles on Google+ for those who have Google Apps for Business (the service costs $5 per month to use and you do need to have a website). Being first at bat can...

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Google Voice Search Tests (Underwater & Desert)

2011-10-27T13:51:00.003+01:00

After venturing into caves, underwater and into the middle of the desert in September, engineers from Google Australia's Chrome team have pushed Google Android's Voice Search to the limit. Noel...

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Google and Microsoft Yahoo Acquisition Plans

2011-10-25T11:36:00.005+01:00

Both Google and Microsoft plan to buy Yahoo. Both Google and Microsoft are talking with private-equity firms about possibly financing an acquisition of Yahoo — essentially standing in for the...

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Firefox Role In Mobile Era

2011-10-07T11:38:00.003+01:00

Mozilla Firefox is one of the world's leading desktop browsers, with almost 450 million users. But, with the increasing use of mobile devices and hand held PDAs, Firefox is in danger of losing its...

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PayPal To Open A Pop-Up Store In New York

2011-10-03T21:26:00.003+01:00

PayPal is going to be setting up a pop-up store in downtown Manhattan, New York to showcase some of the new tools and technologies the payments giant will debut in the next few months. The space...

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Small Businesses That Are Hiring

2011-09-30T21:53:00.001+01:00

A recent poll suggests that despite economic uncertainty, America's fastest-growing small businesses are looking for talent. Their biggest hurdle: finding it. The entrepreneurs and CEOs leading...

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Google buys Motorola Mobility and its patent portfolio for $12.5 billion

2011-08-15T16:18:00.001+01:00

Google has stunned those watching the mobile space with the announcement today that it has purchased Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in cash. Motorola was early onto the Android platform and has...

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Invite Your Friends To Google+ With New, Tweetable Link

2011-08-07T21:35:00.001+01:00

Google just made it easier for you to invite friends to its new social network, Google+, by providing a short link you can post on the web or share with others over instant messaging. In order to get...

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The Changing Face of Corporate Facebook Landing Pages

2011-08-05T09:26:00.002+01:00

As businesses get more involved in using social media, they are starting to redo their landing pages, or places where you enter their ecosystems on Facebook, Twitter et al. It could be a good time to...

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The Help-Wanted Sign Comes With a Frustrating Asterisk

2011-07-26T07:11:00.002+01:00

The unemployed need not apply. That is the message being broadcast by many of the nation’s employers, making it even more difficult for 14 million jobless Americans to get back to work.A recent...

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Google Challenge to Facebook will cost more than $200 million

2011-07-14T15:40:00.002+01:00

Google’s challenge to Facebook Inc. in social networking, an effort analysts said will cost more than $200 million, probably slowed second-quarter profit growth for the world’s largest Web search...

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The Rich Are Now Richer Than Before The 2008 Credit Meltdown

2011-07-13T07:11:00.003+01:00

Unemployment is at 9.2%, the ruins of the U.S. housing market are still smoldering after the 2008 bonfire, and Greece, Italy and Portugal are balancing on the razor’s edge of default. But the...

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Google+: The Social Sharing War Is Fully On

2011-07-08T11:40:00.003+01:00

Google and Facebook are at war. This is old news. They both want to be the center of the Internet — but there can be only one center. For a while, it looked like things were quickly shifting...

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Google’s “Pi” In The Face

2011-07-03T18:27:00.001+01:00

As we’re all well aware by now, Google did not win the rights to the 6,000+ Nortel wireless and mobile patents. Instead, a consortium featuring many of their main rivals did. That has to sting. But...

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The Rush To Electric Cars Will Replace Oil Barons With Lithium Dictators

2011-06-30T15:03:00.002+01:00

In the latest installment of the Butterfly Effect we look at how mining the key ingredient in electric cars could end up enriching potential enemies of America, and force another round of innovation...

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Google launches Google+, a quasi-Facebook competitor

2011-06-28T21:11:00.001+01:00

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Google on Tuesday unveiled Google+, yet another attempt by the search giant to overcome its past miscues in the social networking space.More people visit Google's network of...

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Why Google Health Really Failed?

2011-06-26T19:41:00.002+01:00

As reported on TechCrunch, Google shut down its medical records and health data platform. Since then, there’s been a lot of bits spilled offering explanations, but they all missed the most critical...

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Madoff trustee wants billions more from JPMorgan

2011-06-25T11:08:00.001+01:00

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The trustee in the Bernie Madoff case filed an amended complaint against JPMorgan Chase on Friday, upping the damages sought from $5.4 billion to $19 billion for the bank's...

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