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Article | 10/05/2013 Bing brings more of Facebook to search
Bing is adding some new social features to its search engine, by letting users comment and "like" their Facebook friends' posts directly on the site.
Article | 10/05/2013 Salesforce.com to buy Clipboard, shutting down service
Salesforce.com is to acquire Clipboard, a Web clipping and sharing service, and is closing down the service.
Article | 10/05/2013 Twitter buys Ubalo to speed up its back-end
Twitter has acquired Ubalo, a company that provides various services aimed at speeding up the coding process, the social network announced Thursday.
Article | 9/05/2013 YouTube rolls out paid subscription channels
Not everything on YouTube is free any more. The video-sharing website will now charge users a monthly fee to view certain content offered through subs...
Article | 9/05/2013 Facebook Home attracts close to 1 million downloads
Facebook has attracted "just about" 1 million downloads of its Home application in its first month of availability.
Article | 9/05/2013 Pioneer to crowdsource car navigation, add augmented reality
Pioneer will soon launch a new car navigation system in Japan that uses dashboard cameras to scan the road ahead for approaching street signs and othe...
Article | 9/05/2013 California may outlaw 3-D printed guns
Proposed legislation in California aims to ban guns made using 3-D printing, after an organization Defense Distributed fired a handgun made with the t...
Article | 8/05/2013 Google Maps' new facelift will slay the sidebar, exalt the map
Google Maps is rumored to get a UI overhaul next week. According to the Google Operating System blog (an unofficial Google blog), the new interface wi...
Article | 8/05/2013 Facebook to Microsoft: Dump fake Facebook apps from Windows Phone Store
Facebook has asked Microsoft to remove 41 unofficial and clone 'Facebook' apps from the Windows Phone store as the social network prepares to introduc...
Article | 8/05/2013 Microsoft extends revenue per search agreement with Yahoo
Microsoft has extended a search revenue guarantee agreement with Yahoo for one more year, amid reports that the Internet company is trying to break it...
Article | 8/05/2013 Downdetector.com scours Twittersphere to detect service outages faster
A Dutch startup has launched a service that studies data from social networks to quickly identify online service outages -- sometimes, it says, before...
Article | 7/05/2013 Syria 'disappears' from the Internet, security firm says
Internet traffic to and from Syria, which is in the midst of a civil war, appears to have dried up.
Article | 7/05/2013 SAP unveils HANA Enterprise Cloud service
SAP is set to offer customers the option of running their applications on top of a cloud-based version of its HANA in-memory database technology.
Article | 7/05/2013 China's Baidu expands online video business with $370 million acquisition
China's largest search engine Baidu is getting closer to becoming the country's largest online video provider with a new US$370 million acquisition.
Article | 6/05/2013 Yahoo recruiting iOS developers to 'radically improve' Flickr
Yahoo's Flickr mobile app may be getting a completely new look in the months to come, as the company seeks to hire multiple iOS engineers to "radicall...