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Google’s Chrome browser popularity and usage is on the rise, according to the latest report from web analytics firm StatCounter, Chrome’s market share has gone up to 33.8 percent worldwide in July from 32.8 percent in June.   Microsoft Internet Explorer is close second at 32 percent, Mozilla’s Firefox which was among the first decent alternate to Internet Explorer is slipping [...]

Samsung is the top selling brand in Europe at the moment, a part of the credit goes  to aggressive pricing in a region hit by economic pressures and the  successful launch of the latest in Galaxy series Galaxy S3 in May according to Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, which bases its conclusions on more than 1 million of interviews with consumers every month. 45% of all smartphone sales were for Samsung phones [...]

Facebook yesterday launched a new service named  Facebook Stories at facebookstories.com, a Web site that, according to Facebook, is dedicated to sharing “some of the most extraordinary, quirky, and thought-provoking stories and ideas from people around the world who make up the social graph.” Facebook might be banking on this new service to boost its public opinion and stock price.   Facebook [...]

Facebook’s stock price plunged to a below US $20, almost half the price it debuted at in May. Facebook shares are down more than 4% today, falling to as low as $19.82. When Facebook first listed on May 18, its shares opened at just over US $42. Facebook valuation was touted to be US $100 billion-plus prior to the IPO. The latest figures put the company’s market cap at around US $43 billion which [...]

Facebook has a total of 83 million accounts on the website which are bogus. It accounts for 8.7% of the total users, of that 8.7%, 4.8% are duplicate accounts, 2.4% are user-misclassified accounts and 1.5% are “undesirable” accounts or simply put –  spam. This was revealed through Facebook’s form 10-Q filing with the US SEC for the quarterly period that ended last June 30, 2012. The [...]

“One million people have signed up for a new, modern email experience at Outlook.com. Thanks!” @Outlook tweeted. Microsoft’s new email service, Outlook.com, may become a success and provide redemption for Hotmail’s terrible reputation. The site adding 1 million users in about six hours is definitely good news for Microsoft. While launching Outlook.com Microsoft said that it [...]

Research consultancy Frank N. Magid Associates’s recently survey of 4,734 cell phone and smartphone owners revealed that 50% of people currently own an iPad, down significantly from 72% at last count. Apple shipped a robust 17.0 million iPads worldwide and maintained its strong market leadership with 68 percent share during the second quarter of 2012 The report says Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet [...]

U.S. regulators Federal Trade Commission is likely to impose a hefty US $ 22.5 million penalty on Google for bypassing the privacy settings of millions of Apple Safari web browsers users in order to serve targeted ads. Google was allegedly  using a special code to bypass the settings and install cookies on users’ computers even when such actions were supposed to be blocked by the browser. According [...]

Microsoft’s announced Outlook.com on Tuesday , a new online email service which gives its email application a much-needed makeover, it cleans up the inbox user interface and adds several social networking features . Outlook.com will exist separately from Hotmail, feature-wise,  the email features are basically the same across the two services,visually –  Outlook.com is everything Hotmail [...]

Android sales declined by 5% over last year, according to a report by Strategy Analysts, Google’s mobile OS’s market share dropped from 60.6 percent a year earlier to 56.3 percent and according to the report Android may be “approaching a peak” in its market share. The key reasons for the decline were a dull economy, maturing penetration of smartphones among contract mobile subscribers, [...]