Google is hard at work creating a new way for you to view and share the latest goings-on in current events. Reportedly called Google Propeller, the new digital news platform is being developed for Android Honeycomb tablets as well as the iPad. It will revolutionize the way users interact with the da
Read MoreTwitter now delivers an astonishing 350 billion tweets each day, the company said on Friday. ”Delivering 350 billion Tweets a day is a terribly fun engineering challenge. But, it doesn’t capture how passionate our users are,” the company said from its official Twitter Engineering account. Coi
Read MoreTwitter is reportedly renegotiating terms for a deal with Bing. The social networking and microblogging service failed to agree terms with Google earlier this month which saw Google suspend its realtime search product. Google had been allowed to access Twitter’s real time stream of tweet data. The
Read MoreTwitter has finally announced that it has acquired TweetDeck. “This acquisition is an important step forward for us,” Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said in a blog post. “TweetDeck provides brands, publishers, marketers and others with a powerful platform to track all the real-time conversations
Read MoreTwitter might introduce pages for brands similar to those on Facebook, according to reports. The initiative, which Marketing Magazine reports is being lead by Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and President of Revenue Adam Bain, is to give brands their own space on Twitter — a page they could point t
Read MoreTwitter has just announced the service’s official iPad app. It’s free and comes with a slew of touch interface bells and whistles built right in. The app is intended to allow for seamless navigation between tweets, photos, web pages, videos and other media and updates. It’s also usable eve
Read MoreGoogle has acquired a mobile social gaming company called SocialDeck, in what is just its latest addition to a shopping spree of social media startups. This latest acquisition comes just three days after its last one, the purchase of Angstro, was confirmed. The rapid and mass buyouts of so many so
Read MoreTwitter has been plagued by a series of glitches in recent days which has caused the service to run more slowly or go offline completely. “From a site stability and service outage perspective, it’s been Twitter’s worst month since last October,” said Sean Garrett, a spokes
Read MoreThe struggling Internet company AOL Inc. plans to sell or shut down the online community Bebo nearly two years after buying it for $850 million in an expansion of its social-networking ambitions. In an e-mail to employees Tuesday, Jon Brod, who runs AOL’s startup acquisition and investment
Read MoreAccording to ComScore’s latest data, which measures US web traffic, the number of unique visitors to Twitter increased by nine per cent from December 2009 to January 2010. Google began integrating Twitter users’ tweets on December 7 2009 into its main search results in a bid to make its
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