Wow. The title says it all. Most of us who are currently in our early, mid-twenties spent our late teens hooked on to Facebook. It was all so exciting – to be able to share your thoughts, + cheesy quotes with all your ‘friends’, to upload pictures of your every outing, to see what your ‘friends’ were up to. Oh, so exciting! Then we grew up and Facebook grew old. The lure it held once started...

After much speculation on the web about Facebook’s big announcement, it has emerged that the social networking giant has been working on ‘Search’, something that it has lacked sorely in spite of its growth and rise as the biggest social medium in the world. Industry watchers looking for a Facebook phone would have been heavily disappointed and I think Facebook will not pursue the phone idea just...

Google’s services are going to become 30% faster in Asia because of the new data centers will go live this year. These data centers will be present in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. The Singapore and Taiwan data centers will be operational this year but there is no information on when the Hong Kong one will become operational. What does this mean to the Asian and Indian Internet user? Well...

Both, Bollywood and Cyber Consumers Goods market are becoming increasing receptive to competition and the pedantic of aggressive marketing. But we haven’t really witnessed them in a consolidated attempt to bear mutual benefits of a consolidated marketing move engaged in unison. In a new strategy to change the very fibers of marketing a film, Aamir Khan’s movie TALAASH has partnered with Microsoft...

Google’s Maps is perhaps the most widely used navigation assistance software. Hence Google, in association with research firm IPSOS has drawn up a report showing what did people from the three most prominent metros of India, search for. Residents from Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore apparently have a craving desire to know about hotels. The Imperial of Delhi, The Trident of Mumbai & The Leela Kempinski...

Internet search giant Google has announced the gradual closure of some of its non-performing services. The first one on the list is Google’s offer to personalize one’s home-page i.e. iGoogle. The idea was to let users customize options for their landing page with widgets, apps & notifications. However, owing to lack of adoption, the service which started in 2005, will be closed down completely...

The search engine business is thriving. However, two of the biggest search engines providers Google & Microsoft’s Bing have a completely different approach to cater to the queries. Source: Getty Images Current market leader Google has always taken initiatives to fine tune the search process. Their latest endeavor via Knowledge Graph is evidence that Google is trying to understand not only...

TimesJobs, India’s premier Job search portal has upgraded its mobile centric website. After listening to job-seekers’ feedback, TimeJobs has made significant changes to its mobile site making it even more user-friendly. The aim is to enhance job-search experience while on the move. We gave the mobile website a quick tour & here’s what they have to offer: Ability to save Jobs, Easily Create...

Google’s Flight search which was launched as desktop-only service last year has reportedly gone global. Launched in September the flight search was meant as a US-only & that too domestic-only flight search tool. However, Google has now added more than 500 airports around the world. The downside is the flight search app currently works only for flight ‘Originating’ in US. So the ‘Global’...

Google is the top Internet Company in the world today. Its search capabilities are massive and its services are deeply entrenched in the daily deeds and tasks of the modern Internet user. A single change in the algorithm of search engine can send many businesses packing! It has a lot of power but people love Google because it doesn’t act evil. Well, companies like Facebook and Twitter don’t think...