For long, search engine giant Google was considered as a sworn enemy in many quarters of the news industry. But all that may change soon. In a move that seems to be showing signs of befriending the news service industry, Google has launched Fast Flip service that will provide users a new reading experience. According to BBC, the experimental news service will enable users to view news articles from major publishers and sift through pages as they would the pages of a magazine to find a good read...

Search engine giant Google attracts greater loyalty from its users, who conduct more searches a month than those on Yahoo and Microsoft, according to a study carried out by research house comScore. According to technology-related website Ars Technica (www.arstechina.com), Google searchers conduct an average of 54.5 searches a month – that’s about double the number of searches that Yahoo and Microsoft users conduct combined. Yahoo and Microsoft search on an average 26.9 times a month...

Ace social networking site Facebook has reportedly tested a simplified version of its social network service with faster load times called Facebook Lite. Facebook’s latest move, which is being seen as a bid to directly compete with rival Twitter, provides a stream of user updates and looks similar to the Twitter’s microblogging service. The California-headquartered social networking company has invited a select group of users to test the new stripped-down version of the site while ...

In a development that may not exactly sound like music to the ears of internet giants Google and Twitter, leading social networking company Facebook made public its decision to buy FriendFeed, the news and information-sharing service, founded in 2007 by four ex-Google engineers (Paul Buchheit, Jim Norris, Sanjeev Singh and Bret Taylor). Facebook’s latest acquisition will considerably help to consolidate themselves in the market given the fact that social messaging service provider Twit...