Archive August, 2010

Location-based social network: Foursquare, Gowalla and now Facebook Places!

August 21st 2010 PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA (CNN) – Facebook Places, just recently launched by the social network giant Facebook and slowly rolling out to all US users and later to the rest of the world. What is this all about?, so you may ask yourself. It's a new "hot" trend to share your ...

Bing is powering Yahoo! searches in United States

August 18th 2010 SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Bing will start powering Internet searches at Yahoo! web pages in North America this week as the technology firms combine forces to compete with Google. "Later this week, we will begin transitioning the back-end technology for Yahoo! Search in the US and Canada (English) over to the ...