Google has taken its Flight Search internationally, offering an easy way to check and compare flights to over 500 international airports. The only catch is you’ll have to start your flight in…
Google To Tweak Search with Semantics
Google has plans to increase its use of semantic search in its search engine, providing users with more than just the standard set of key-word inspired links but actual facts and direct…
Study: Pinterest Dishes Out More Referral Traffic than Twitter
Despite still being in invite only, Pinterest now generates more referral traffic than one of the biggest referral birds of them all, Twitter. The digital collage of users’ web interests beat out…
14 Million New Jobs to Land from The Cloud by 2015
Cloud-based services will create 14 million new jobs by 2015, a recent study commissioned by Microsoft in collaboration with the research firm IDC predicts. Though half of those jobs will be in…
Yammer Nabs $85M in IPO-Sized Investment
Yammer, the private social network, has nabbed $85 million, the company recently announced. This brings the company’s total investments to $142 million. At nearly a billion dollars, this latest round gives the…
Facebook’s Lifeline Helps Digg Out of the Grave
Just as the gravediggers were readying Digg on their to-do list, Facebook came to the company’s rescue, adding a Digg Social Reader application to Timeline. January saw Facebook referral traffic for the…
Let the Games Begin – Yahoo Slaps Facebook With Patent Fees
Biting the hand that feeds it, Yahoo slapped Facebook with a demand for fees on 10 to 20 patents, threatening to sue if the social media company failed to comply. The patents…
Apple Has Wormhole – Shares iPhone Photos with the World
Sharing photos on Facebook should be easy. Automatically sharing your entire photo collection unknowingly with app developers should be impossible, but it isn’t. A recently exposed loophole in the iPhone, iPad and…
LinkedIn Acquires Rapportive, the Email Plugin
LinkedIn has acquired Rapportive, a browser plugin that overlays Gmail with info on other social media feeds. The news was first put up for rumor a couple of weeks ago by AllThingsD,…
Google Caught Tracking Your iPhone
Yes, Google may well have been looking over your shoulder every time you surf your iPhone, iPad or MacBook, or anything using Safari for that matter. The infraction was first discovered by Jonathan Mayer,…