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Foound goes Live Worldwide

Mobile is one of the tech trends to watch and Singapore based mobile start-up, Foound, seems to have the secret sauce to be the next mobile app giant. Why? Simply because Foound alleviates your pain of organizing meet ups with friends. Unlike badges or points, Foound provides users with a tangible benefit. In short, it […]

Google Gives $5M Worth of Java GUI Tools to Eclipse

Google has donated two open-source Java tools to the Eclipse Foundation to join the popular IDE suite in 2011. The tech giant’s WindowBuilder and CodePro AnalytiX were part of Google’s acquisition of Instantiations in August this year. By September, Google…

Bank of America Blocks WikiLeaks Payments

Financial giant Bank of America has added its name to the list of institutions dropping support for WikiLeaks, announcing that it has stopped handling any payments to or from the whistle-blowing website. Said the bank in a statement to…

Facebook Domination Visualized on a World Map

Facebook has grown to become a social network behemoth, which bashes and throws competitors out of their domain countries. Facebook domination is what we observed and it is now visualized on a world map. Vincenzo Cosenza created the map with data based on Alexa and Google Trends. This map is an upgraded version of the […]

Google Slides To Third Place In Chinese Online Ad Market

It’s a pretty well-known fact that Baidu’s beaten Google in China, and all of Google’s efforts to reverse that fact haven’t accomplished much.  Unfortunately for the company, those efforts also failed to hold off another rival, as a new report puts Alibaba ahead of Google in the online ad market. Owen Fletcher wrote earlier today, […]

Local Products Startup Milo Purchased by eBay

E-commerce giant eBay struck a significant deal Thursday, purchasing startup local product inventory search engine Milo.com for a reported $75 million. There has been a lot of recent attention given to the growing importance of local commerce –…(read more) [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and […]

Google Gets OK To Delete UK Street View WiFi Data

At least in the UK, Google may finally be able to put its recent Street View privacy gaffe behind it.  The company’s signed a commitment to improve its handling of data, and as a result, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office has given Google permission to delete the sensitive information it collected by accident. The last […]

The Good and Bad of Google Instant Previews

Google Instant Previews, the latest of the search giant's innovations, gives the user the opportunity to see a small preview of an entire Web page before clicking through to the website, by clicking on the little magnifying glass next to the search result listing. As you might imagine, this presents some questions and possible concerns […]

Google Buzz Privacy Suit Settlement Announced

The launch of Google Buzz did not go well, as you may remember.  Automatic opt-ins and privacy scares created quite a stir.  But Google’s putting the matter behind it, as the search giant has settled a class action suit by agreeing to create a privacy-centric fund. Google is supposed to contribute $8.5 million to the […]

Chase Customers Can Now Deposit Checks via iPhone

Banking giant Chase has updated its iPhone application [iTunes link] to include Quick Deposit, a feature that lets users deposit checks from their iPhones. Using Chase Mobile, bankers can now select an account, enter the amount of the…

Google Abandons Windows for Better Security

In the wake of the China attacks that resulted in Google’s public threat to leave China, the search giant is abandoning Windows due to concerns over security. According to…

Sprint Drops Plan to Offer Google’s Nexus One

Although Google announced only last month that Sprint would carry its Nexus One phone, the carrier has since retracted from that plan. Gizmodo reports that the carrier will instead focus its efforts on the upcoming HTC EVO 4G it will be launching this summer. Both devices are Android phones, but the EVO is arguably more […]

Twitter Launches Its Official Android App

Just weeks after launching an official BlackBerry app and acquiring Tweetie (which will become Twitter for iPhone), Twitter is out with another mobile application built in-house, this time for Google Android. The app is available immediately in the Android Market. Twitter’s Leland Rechis describes it on the company’s official blog, writing, “Reading tweets is easy […]

Google Goats Return to Lawn Mowing Duty in Mountain View

Look out, keyboard cats: here come the Google goats! The search giant has trotted out an organic solution to mowing an overgrown field at Google HQ again this year, in the interest of reducing the company’s carbon footprint. We know that Google’s job interview questions can be quite grueling, so we have to imagine these […]