Your favorite Mountain View Company announced, as usual, the Google Zeitgeist 2011, namely the user queries the most common in 2011 on its search engine in over fifty countries. True to custom, the Internet giant opted for a multimedia way to publicize more what people looked at on the site during the year. Zeitgeist, the ...

Amazon said on Thursday it has sold more than 1 million Kindle devices in a week, in an unusual announcement from the largest Internet retailer, which comes in the wake of some negative reviews about their new tablet, the Kindle Fire. The latest entrant to the tablet market said that consumers are buying “well over” ...

Hi5 used to be a social network-turned-gaming platform, and one of the most popular some years ago, along with other has-beens like My Space.  Faring better than the once-popular Facebook predecesor, Hi5 is being acquired by San Francisco-based Tagged, pooling a total of 330 million users worldwide, as reported by WSJ. The purchase price was ...

Advertising platform Apple iAd, announced along with iOS4 last year, was designed to shake up the mobile advertising business through compelling interactive banners with a concomitant increase in income of publishers and developers. But now Apple is softening its approach to advertisers as it loses ground to Google in the fast-growing mobile ad market. iAd ...

Starting today, Google offers a fresh take on YouTube for schools, students and teachers with “YouTube for Schools.” It’s a new network whose primary purpose is to present video content for training students, without the worry of spam or inappropriate content gunking up the minds of our little ones. Google stressed that education with video ...

PCs have faced a cautious market this past year or so, with the rise of tablets but also because of our very globalized market.   Market research firm IHS predicts the PC industry will shortfall in shipments in the near future, an unsettling thought for manufacturers that derive parts from overseas.  According to IHS, because of the ...

U.S. wireless carrier Sprint Nextel has reached a deal with WiMAX Clearwire for the next four years. According the agreement, Sprint Nextel, the third largest mobile operator in the United States, agreed to pay up to $1.6 billion to Clearwire over the next four years, including a pact on networks and a potential capital injection, ...

Spotify is on a roll, having recently reached a major milestone of 2.5 million total subscribers to the music platform.  The company is achieving exponential growth and has increased its base by half a million subscribers in just two months. The announcement is an important reminder for competitors like Rhapsody, or even the brand new ...

Microsoft has been pretty quiet on the acquisition front in recent months, one of its last major acquisitions being the Skype deal for $8.5 billion in May. But the software giant is once again on the hunt for new buys, announcing today the acquisition of VideoSurf, a San Mateo, California based intelligent video search company. Microsoft ...

Cisco Systems is looking to extend the capabilities of its collaboration offerings, including WebEx and Jabber, to address the mobile trends of what company executives agree is the post-PC era.  By opting for an approach focused on the cloud, end users can work everywhere, on just about any device.  It seems the goal of many ...