The social network is rolling out a free calling service to iPhone users in the US. According to The Verge, the updated app will allow users to make free voice calls to their friends on Facebook. To make a call, users just need to open ...
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Computerworld - With Facebook's new search service out in the open, the social network seems to be on a collision course with search giant Google. "It appears that's the path Facebook is on," said Jeff Kagan, an independent industry ...
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The social network has released the “graph search” which allows users to find information and new connections on the site by using key phrases. The Graph search will now allow users to do specific searches about friends on the ...
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CBR rounds up expert opinions on what Facebook’s new graphic search means for the future of the company and its search engine competitors. Jonathan Beeston, director of new product innovation at Adobe Facebook Graph Search is a ...
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Facebook yesterday unveiled its social graph feature dubbed Graph Search, which allows people to use the network as a search engine to find people, photos, places and interests. Further reading Facebook, Google attack MEP report ...
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Amid further signs that the EU's two-year investigation into Google is coming to a head, EC competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia said that the internet giant will be forced to change the way it presents its search results if it wants to ...
Google has achieved what can only be described as a victory after an investigation into unfair search result manipulation by the US Federal Trade Commission. The FTC yesterday released its verdicts on two charges levelled against Google ...
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IDG News Service-China's largest search engine Baidu said on Monday the company would provide 30GB of free cloud storage to Android devices built with certain Qualcomm chips,in what's the latest move by the company to carve out a presence ...
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Yahoo has appointed Henrique de Castro as chief operating officer (COO), just three months after appointing another Google executive, Marissa Mayer as chief executive officer (CEO). De Castro is to oversee global sales, operations, media ...
Marissa Mayer has her work cut out for her at Yahoo. The fading Internet star reported its second-quarter financial results Tuesday, in which revenue and profit both dipped slightly from a year earlier. Subtracting commissions paid to ...
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China has blocking access to Google in what’s likely a move to squelch any controversial content on the nation’s Internet as its government prepares to change leadership. The blocking was reported by GreatFire.org, which ...
Marissa Mayer, participating in her first Yahoo earnings conference call since becoming CEO, outlined a broad range of areas in which the company needs to improve. “It was an active and solid quarter with some nice ...
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US regulators are likely to conclude a lengthy antitrust probe of Google's dominance of internet searches with a voluntary settlement, news reports say. The Wall Street Journal said Google was likely to agree to a settlement with the ...
Access to Google services in China appeared to return after they were blocked briefly as the country prepares to appoint new leadership. The blocking appeared to last for about 12 hours, with Internet traffic resuming to the sites after 6 ...
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The European Union's competition chief has said negotiations with Google to settle an antitrust probe have"advanced",but talks are not yet concluded. Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said he could could not anticipate the outcome ...
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