Microsoft Bing Local Search Results Now Powered by Yelp
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Facebook Launches New Plugin for WordPress & Simplifies Social Publishing
With WordPress powering more than 16% of all websites, people have been asking Facebook to release an official WordPress plugin for years. Yesterday, Facebook finally...
Facebook Acquires Entire Pieceable Team to Bolster Mobile Efforts
Facebook, which was one of the most hyped initial public offerings of all-time, is hoping to reverse the stock’s bad fortune with yet another staff...
Google and Nextag’s Jeff Katz Exchange Blows
Jeffery Katz, a vocal Google critic and the CEO of Nextag, recently published an article in The Wall Street Journal claiming that Google is misusing...
Twitter Monetizes Mobile Users as Facebook Stock Flounders
Due to the company’s inability to monetize mobile users, the Facebook stock, which opened at $38 and is currently trading in the $26 range, has...
Facebook Hopes to Monetize Mobile Users as Stock Plummets
In Facebook’s IPO paperwork filed February 1, the social network indicated that mobile advertising was a potential revenue stream and that lack of ad revenue...
Is Facebook in Danger of Extinction?
With the Facebook stock continuing its free-fall and shareholders filing a lawsuit against him, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his company could really use a...
Google to Push Local Advertising for Small Businesses
With local businesses spending over $20 billion on marketing each year, Google is hopeful that the recently announced small-business services will help them capture some...
Twitter Supports Do Not Track Privacy Feature
Ed Felten, the Federal Trade Commission’s chief technology officer, recently announced that Twitter is now providing support for the Do Not Track feature. The feature,...
Facebook Update: Higher Target IPO Price Resulting in Stakeholder Liquidation
On Tuesday, the world’s largest social network raised the target IPO price range to $34 to $38. If Facebook shares sell at the upper limit...
Google-Backed Offshore Power Project Moving Forward
A Google-backed project, the Atlantic Wind Connection, cleared the first of many regulatory hurdles yesterday. The U.S. Department of the Interior said that no competitors...
Google Considering $100M Meebo Acquisition
According to several inside sources, Google is reportedly in serious talks to acquire the social platform Meebo. Although Meebo CEO Seth Strenberg has not commented...
SEOmoz Spam Research Project to Provide Marketers Useful Information
Rand Fishkin, the CEO of the popular SEO software company SEOmoz, recently announced a new project related to webspam research. The goal of the project...
Search Engine Results Protected by First Amendment
Although Google has been the subject of multiple antitrust investigations related to how they arrange search results and rank Web sites, a new 27-page report...
Google-Oracle Case Undecided on Key Questions
On Monday, a San Francisco federal jury delivered a partial verdict in the Oracle v. Google trial. The jury, which was composed of five male...
FTC Preparing to Fine Google Millions for Safari Privacy Breach
In February, Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer discovered that Google had bypassed a key Safari browser privacy setting in order to install tracking cookies. By hiding...
Google Update: Search Engine Requests Dismissal of Class Action Book Scanning Lawsuit
In 2004, Google began to digitally scan millions of books from libraries in order to incorporate textual excerpts in the search results. However, shortly after...
Indian Trial Court to Proceed with Google-Facebook Censorship Case
In a criminal complaint filed in India earlier this year, journalist Vinay Rai alleged that Facebook, YouTube, and the Orkut social network are hosting content...
Gmail Adds Automatic Language Translation Feature
In May of 2009, Gmail launched an experimental version of Automatic Message Translation in Gmail Labs and now Gmail has announced that the feature is...
Google Autocomplete Faces New Lawsuit for “Jewish” Autcomplete Suggestions
Google’s autocomplete feature, which has faced many legal challenges over the past several years, is facing a new lawsuit in a French court related to...
Google Releases Full FCC Street View Report
On Friday evening, Google released the full 25-page document detailing the recent investigation by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) into Google Street View. The Google...
FTC Retains Outside Expert Counsel for Google Antitrust Probe
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which is currently investigating Google to determine if the search engine is unfairly favoring its own web properties over competitors,...
Google Seeks Partners to Help Make Self-Driving Car a Production Vehicle
On Wednesday, Google visited Detroit automakers that can help make Google’s prototype of a self-driving car a production vehicle. Anthony Levandowski, who is the product...
DNS Changer Malware: FBI Reports 300,000 Computers May Lose Web Access
In November of 2011, six Estonian nationals were arrested by the FBI for creating malware that infected computers worldwide. The malware, which was named DNS...
Chinese Search Market Update: Baidu Predicts Growth Slowdown
Baidu, the leading Chinese-language Internet search provider, recently reported a strong year-over-year rise in first-quarter earnings. Compared to the first quarter of 2011, the Chinese...
Dropbox Nightmare Confirmed: Google Drive is Live!
After enduring launch rumors for over six years, the Google Drive has finally launched! Sundar Pichai, the Senior Vice-President of Chrome and Apps, made the...
SEC Filing: Facebook Discloses Negative Financial Data Ahead of IPO
Facebook, which is on the verge of the long-awaited and hyped initial public offering (IPO), recently disclosed that their net income fell 12% in the...
Google Billionaires Fund Asteroid Mining Company
Google billionaires Eric Schmidt and Larry Page have decided to provide funding for an interesting space exploration start-up named Planetary Resources. The new company, which...
Judge Refuses to Dismiss Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google and Apple
As a result of allegedly entering an illegal anti-poaching agreement that prohibited the hiring of each other’s employees, some of the top technology companies in...
Facebook IPO Rumor: Instagram Source Says Social Networking Giant Worth $104 Billion!
With Facebook allegedly targeting May 17th for the highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO), there has been widespread speculation regarding the social networking company’s valuation...