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Article | 25/06/2009 Facebook tests improved posting tool

Facebook has started to test a new version of its Publisher, the tool that members can use to post notes, status updates, links, photos, videos and ot...

Article | 24/06/2009 Google to promote Web speed on new developer site

Google has created a Web site for developers that is focused exclusively on making Web applications, sites and browsers faster.

Article | 24/06/2009 MySpace helps developers tune site performance with new tool

MySpace will release as open source a tool it uses internally to track and tune the performance of its Web site, a move that will allow developers to ...

Article | 24/06/2009 Google fixes 'critical' security hole in Chrome

Google has plugged a security vulnerability in its Chrome browser that the company considers critical.

Article | 24/06/2009 MySpace to shrink international staff, close offices abroad

MySpace will slash its staff abroad and shutter several international offices, the News Corp. unit said on Tuesday, a week after announcing a big roun...

Article | 23/06/2009 Bug in Google's Blogger costing sites traffic

Publishers with custom domains hosted on Google's Blogger blog-publishing service have been losing traffic for the past week due to a bug affecting ho...

Article | 20/06/2009 Nielsen: Twitter grows user base almost 1,500 percent in May

Twitter grew faster than any other Web site in May, when its unique visitors rose almost 1,500 percent year-on-year to 18.2 million, according to Niel...

Article | 22/06/2009 Google improves Flash search and indexing

Google has enhanced its search engine's capacity to index Adobe's Flash files, which are very popular on the Web but tricky for search engine spiders.

Article | 17/06/2009 Intel, Oracle, PayPal back ID technology interop group

The Kantara Initiative, formed to promote interoperability among identity verification applications and services, launched on Wednesday with big-name ...

Article | 18/06/2009 Google warns of issues with its Outlook sync tool for Apps

After promising that people can use Outlook "seamlessly" with the Gmail component of its Apps suite, Google is toning down those expectations.

Article | 17/06/2009 Nielsen: Microsoft's search queries fell 14 percent in May

Bing better deliver a bang for Microsoft.

Article | 17/06/2009 MySpace staff slashed almost 30 percent

The restructuring continues at MySpace, whose staff will get cut by almost 30 percent, the News Corp. division announced Tuesday.

Article | 12/06/2009 Watch out, Oracle: Google tests cloud-based database

Google has released an early version of a new type of database whose approach to data management will be revolutionary, according to an analyst who ha...

Article | 11/06/2009 Yahoo seeks Hadoop boost with release of internal version

To advance the adoption of the Hadoop technology for processing massive data sets, Yahoo will release a version of the software it has perfected to po...

Article | 9/06/2009 U.S. online advertising shrinks in Q1

U.S. online advertising spending, which has been key in financing the Web 2.0 wave of Internet innovation, shrunk in the first quarter, the first year...