SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo has demanded licensing fees from Facebook for use of its technology, the companies said on Monday, potentially engulfing social media in the patent battles and lawsuits raging across much of the tech sector. Yahoo has asserted claims ...

Don’t try to use Bit.ly links on Facebook; they have been marked by the world’s largest social network as abusive, leading to dead end pages and frustrated users. Posting Bit.ly links on Facebook is currently impossible. If you attempt to share a ...

WASHINGTON: Social networking giant Facebook, which plans to raise $5 billion through an IPO, has said India is a key source for its future growth and its user base in the country has more than doubled in the past one year.The growth of 132 per cent ...

Facebook and Google users: Your social media and online life is about to change, and there’s almost nothing you can do about it. Facebook is rolling out Timeline, a scrapbook-like profile page that gathers every post a user has made and arranges ...

Google’s favoritism of Google+ in its new Search Plusresults is just the latest in the line of favoritism it has done with vertical search? It’s not, because Google hasn’t really favored itself with vertical search. It is favoring itself with Google+, ...

Foursquare is introducing what it calls “personalized search for the real world” on its recently redesigned website. What that means as a practical matter is the introduction of the “Explore” feature, better keyword search and several new filters ...

YouTube, MTV and Coca-Cola are the brands that have most effectively used Facebook to connect with consumers, according to a new study. Fathom Analytics, the research firm, ranked the leading Facebook brand pages based on their number of “likes”, ...