There has been rumours around the acquisition of Twitter in the past, which ultimately came to nothing. Things feel a little different this time around however, as Google, Microsoft and Facebook are all rumoured to be interested in purchasing the hugely popular social media platform. According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, executives [...]
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Matt Cutts Suggests Bing’s Denial ‘Doesn’t Ring True’
It didn’t take long for Matt Cutts to respond to Yusef Mehdi’s insistence that Bing do not copy search results, posting on his blog yesterday in direct response to Mehdi’s outburst. The post, which also includes a 40 minute video of Matt Cutts (Google) and Harry Shum (Bing) facing off over this very issue (well [...]
Facebook To Launch Mail Service?
Mark Zuckerburg and his hugely popular Facebook are holding a press conference in San Francisco on Monday, with rumours flying around that the social media giant will be announcing the introduction of their own mail service. It has already been confirmed that the conference will be focusing on Facebook’s internal messaging system, and there is [...]
Microsoft and Facebook Collaboration Secure
It seems recently that the dominance of Google has been too much for some. Over that past year or so we have seen Google consistently loose search volume to competitors (all be it small amounts), and despite the astronomical success of Android, it seems like a slight backlash against ‘everything Google’ is developing especially in [...]
The Yahoo Search Split
I bet not many of you knew, Yahoo inc. and Yahoo Japan are actually separate companies, and after all, why would you? Yahoo Inc. has a 32% stake in Yahoo Japan, but it is majority owned by a company called Softbank, a Japanese media company. You may have also heard about the new deal between [...]
Smartphone Wars – The Patent Battle
With the release of the first iPhone back in 2007, the ‘smartphone’ was really born. It combined all the great elements of other phones at the time, and really started the trend. With the explosive growth of the mobile market and smartphones in the following years, companies have been ruthless in the development of new [...]
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