TechCrunch reports that Microsoft/Xobni deal is moving forward and that the two companies signed an acquisition LOI some time last week. The price hasn’t been finalized yet but a previous offer of sub-$20 million was supposedly rejected by Xobni.
Bill Gates has publicly complimented the service, calling it “the next generation of social networking.”
Xobni, which launched [...]

Popular Web payment processing firm Paypal has announced that it will start blocking “unsafe browsers” from using its service as part of wider anti-phishing efforts. Customers will initially be warned that a browser is unsafe but could then be blocked if they still don’t stop using it.
Paypal said it was “an alarming fact that there [...]

Just when Youtube brought in some good changes, The Google video team has announced some new changes to the way you can search and view videos on the search engine.
According to the Google video blog:
“Now you can choose any of three ways to view your video search-results: a traditional list view, a grid view and, [...]

Youtube has recently launched the beta versions of three new feature updates to improve overall management of your messages, contacts and videos. These features are already live to a small percentage of randomly selected users, but anyone can choose to opt in and test them out.
To Opt-In:
Login to your account, click the following [...]

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Google News has recently added a quotes feature which is a pretty interesting feature I must say. If you search for a person by name, say Marissa Mayer in Google News, you may find a gray speech bubble box showing a quote by her and its source.
When you click on the linked [...]

It seems like Microsoft’s Maps team has just released a completely new version of Live Search Maps and Virtual Earth 3D which can help you to do a lot more. Below are some of the highlights:
– You can check directions and traffic enhancements, including 1-Click directions
– More [...]

Google has recently announced its Quarter 1 Earnings reports which more or less crippled expectations that Google may have not had such an awesome first quarter in 2008. Well, Google proved the analysts wrong with a 30% increase in profit during the Q1 of the year, amidst a slowing US economy and revenue escalating [...]

Microsoft has recently acquired the Seattle based travel search company Farecast, which has been the sole target of acquisition rumors for last few momths. The buyout of Farecast was confirmed on the Farecast Blog :
Were excited to confirm that Farecast has been acquired by Microsoft! This acquisition creates tremendous opportunities for the Farecast team and [...]

Google Adsense has recently added a new feature to view the performance statistics for Adsense link units. For those of you who have forgotten what Adsense link units are – they are a bunch of text links that alternates with standard text ads.
In past only the performance statistics for standard text ads were viewable in [...]