Twitter allows popular individuals to verify their Twitter profiles to avoid fake profiles  through verification check marks, Facebook  is following Twitter’s lead and have on Wednesday announced Verified Pages feature, which will also make it easier for users to find the official account of celebrities and prominent people they want to follow. Profiles will be marked with a small blue icon [...]

Facebook no longer seem to be in the race to buy the Silicon Valley  startup, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg told  Allthings’sD Walt Mossberg at All Things D’s D11 on Wednesday that Facebook isn’t getting into proprietary Facebook mapping software. Google also reportedly was in the hunt and had offered $1 billion to win over the owners of Waze. The report further added that “the [...]

Microsoft on Tuesday announced that Office 365 Home Premium subscribers have surpassed 1 million in about 100 days.  and calls the new Office the best selling version of the Office suite in its history. “And if that wasn’t enough, in just over 100 days, you’ve made Office 365 Home Premium a hit with more than 1 million subscribers, putting it on pace with some of the most popular [...]

The European Commission is planning to ask Google to make more concessions to their proposed changes to Google’s search services to  allay its concerns about the internet giant’s search and advertising practices to end its three-year anti trust investigation according to Reuters. European Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia addressed the European parliament on Tuesday and said that Google’s [...]

More tablet will be shipped than Notebooks or portable PCs this year according to the quarterly Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker  report by IDC, the already declining PC market will see negative growth for the second consecutive year denoting a broad shift in usage patterns. 229.3 million units of Tablets are expected to be shipped this year,  up from 144.5 million units last year, at the same [...]

Google is making constant efforts to integrate its various application, including Google Talk with Hangout was one such step, now native Chrome  apps are about to receive support for in-app purchasing, according to a Google evangelist François Beaufort. “Chrome is about to support in-app payments for Chrome Packaged Apps, thanks to the newly embeddable Chrome Wallet app,” wrote Francois [...]

Microsoft’s and Google’s spat over Windows  YouTube app seem to be heading towards a resolution, the two companies have agreed to team up and jointly create a native YouTube app for Microsoft’s mobile platform according to reports by The Next Web. Microsoft and Google have released a joint statement today saying that they “are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows [...]

Syrian Electronic Army is at it again, after targeting the Financial Times, the Guardian and the Associated Press British broadcaster ITV on Friday became the latest media target to have one its Twitter feeds hacked by the supporters of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. The @itvlondon account on Twitter posted six messages. One said “Francois Hollande to double aid to rebels, including a [...]

Evernote, the popular note taking service is releasing updates to its Mac and iOS and Windows clients and have introduce native reminders, the need for the feature  has been widely discussed on the Internet. Evernote gave more information about the release in a blog post. For the millions and millions of people around the world that use Evernote everyday to achieve their goals, we’re excited to [...]

South Korean giant Samsung has bought a 10 percent stake in rival and South Korea’s third largest mobile phone company Pantech according to reports by TheNextWeb . The purchase was done for a reported sum of 53 billion won or $48 million, Pantech is also Samsung’s component customer, this deal will solidify  the relationship between the South Korean companies and help joint research and development. Samsung’s [...]