Digg, one of the existing social news websites is currently facing a downside at the executive level. The leaving of the publisher and chief revenue officer, Chas Edwards, will also have an influence on Digg’s status in the social news domain as it also had in the last period. Chas Edwards’ leaving for Pixazza will ...

A new powerful and relevant tool for market researchers has been launched by Habbo Hotel – the most largest virtual community worldwide. Running its service in almost 150 countries, available in 11 languages, Habbo Hotel is designed for teens, who can explore the virtual communities via social games. While decorating their personal room, or spinning ...

Google’s plans to expand the web towards television seem to be hardened by three major TV networks that blocked their access on Google TV. The ABC network and cable TV business ESPN’s owner – Walt Disney Co and NBC Universal stated their position towards the broadcast of TV shows on Google TV. CBS misses a ...

Since its beginning AOL’s focus was on a professional team. Among the 500 journalists of AOL nine of them were Pulitzer awarded and two Heisman Trophy winners. It is clear that AOL’s main strategy was to encroach highly skilled professionals. However, it is announced that AOL lost four of its top editors: Mike Nizza, James ...

Kabam is well-known in the social game environment because of the very popular and worshiped Kingdoms of Camelot. What Kingdoms of Camelot appealed was the perfect combination of traditional and social gaming features. Because of the increasing popularity of social games, that enhance the social interaction too, Facebook was the first to testify the lucrative ...

Six months after iPad’s release, Hewlett-Packard Co. presents its Slate 500 tablet, designed for business customers. Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer tested live the 8.9 inch screen device. The main features of HP’s tablet include the Wi-Fi access, front and rear cameras, 64 gigabytes of storage space and touch-sensitive screen together with a stylus pen. ...

Amazon keeps the same high records in sales because of the customers’ affinity for books and electronic gadgets. Analysts raised concerns about the increased spending budget of the 3rd quarter which included the opening of 10 warehouses. After falling at 4.01 percent, the Amazon shares closed the session at a peak record – influenced by ...

Speculations on the dim earnings of Seagate, one of the most important hard drive and storage solutions manufacturer, have been explained by Steve Luczo, Chief Executive Officer, referring to ‘weak consumer spending in the U.S. and Europe and “ample availability of hard drives during the quarter’, as well as better solutions offered by competitors such ...

How will the web search look in a few years time? Hard to find a pertinent answer when the last decade offered puzzled situations. The search engines’ debut started at the beginning of the 90’s with Archie, WebCrawler and Infoseek – the first to break the record of 7.3 millions visitors per month. The first ...

Topsy declared today that OneRiot, the realtime search engine, has switched search partners to Topsy.com, a very popular search engine for social web. Topsy’s now making profits via OneRiot’s online advertisements. Vipul Ved Prakash, Co-Founder and CEO of Topsy stated that ‘OneRiot ads, coupled with the largest indexed set of Twitter data on the planet ...