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Microsoft's Bing gained share in the search market for the second month consecutively. This definitely gives it a positive impact but considering the leader Google, it is hardly a rise to challenge its being. According to the comScore reports of July that were released recently shows the following:

• Google's...

Mobile search is still a small business, but Google is so far replicating the success it’s had on the computers. Of the 33 million U.S. mobile users who use a search engine on their phones, more than half say they use Google, according to comScore.

The next closest are Yahoo and the carrier's branded...

Good news for all the iPhone users is that facebook has finally submitted its facebook3.0 iPhone application yesterday. “Just uploaded Facebook for iPhone 3.0 to the App Store for review. :)” was mentioned on twitter by Joe Hewitt of Facebook.

The tweet also mentions that Hewitt will be soon posting...

The latest buzz in the IT markets is that of StumbleUpon to introduce a new fourth version of its toolbar on the 1st of September. The new toolbar will be more simple, searchable and more social and will also have dozens of new product features.

The site is growing constantly and consistently with...

Its celebration time for LinkedIn as it reaches the mark of 45 Million users yesterday night. The message about this was sent by the Project Manager of LinkedIn, Florina Xhabija, on Twitter.

LinkedIn shared 16 million unique visitors worldwide every month as reported by comScore. In fact, 331 million...

The recent impact of Facebook buying Friendfeed has made great resonance in the world of social media sites and especially for facebook as it has now gained the real-time search. This is giving direct competition to Twitter which has been the best provider of real-time search so far. Twitter is really...

In yet another high-profile deal, Microsoft announced a partnership whereby mobile giant Nokia will now carry Microsoft Office products on its handsets.

For its part, Nokia loses a competitor. Until now, Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system had the advantage of being the only platform to run...

Twitter's servers went down again on Tuesday for a brief period, just days after an attack forced the microblogging site to shut down last week. Twitter posted an update to its status blog saying, "Responding to site downtime. We're working to recover from a site outage and will update as we learn more."




Co-founder...

So, Facebook has acquired FriendFeed. But what does it mean? Well despite the rhetoric of some that this is a minor deal because FriendFeed’s audience was small compared to that of its acquirer Facebook, or even Twitter, this deal should actually have some wide-reaching implications for the future of...