Baboom, Kim Dotcom’s brand new music streaming service, which is yet to go live, is being showed off in a limited preview with Mega CEO’s album ‘Good Times’. The service is described…
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Declining page views of Wikipedia: who’s to blame?
The free online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, has surprisingly lost more than 10 percent of its global page views in 2013. The decline is equivalent to about 2 billion page views between December 2012…
‘Add to Feedly’ and ‘Tweet This Page’ Chrome extensions removed over ad policy violations
Google recently decided to remove two extensions from the Chrome Web Store which were guilty of violating the company’s terms of service. The two extensions – “Add to Feedly” and “Tweet This…
KickAssTorrents blocked in Ireland by some ISPs
KickAssTorrents, one of the most visited torrent sites in Ireland, has been blocked by many ISPs in the country including Eircom. The blockades started about three days back with reports trickling in…
IsoHunt.to is the 8th most popular torrent site
In just two months IsoHunt.to has managed to feature in the top 10 most popular torrent sites in the world at the eighth position with an estimated 15 million unique visitors in…
Facebook adds Twitter-like Trending topics to news feed
Facebook has launched its new Trending topics feature which will let users spot the latest topics of discussion flaring up among the social networking giant’s 1.2 billion users. The Trending topics feature…
Rdio announces ads-laden free streaming on the web
Following the footsteps of Spotify, Rdio has announced free web-based unlimited streaming for all US users. “If you love something, set it free. Well, we couldn’t agree more. So starting today Rdio…
Facebook may launch its own news reader as early as this month [Rumour]
Facebook is all set to launch its own news reader similar to Flipboard sometime later this month. Re/code, citing an unnamed source “familiar with the matter”, has revealed that the news reader…
Twitter now lets marketers target audience using email addresses, user IDs
Twitter, on Wednesday, announced the introduction of new capabilities including email addresses and user ID based targeting under its recently launched Tailored Audiences programme for ad retargeting. Kelton Lynn, Revenue Product Manager,…
GoDaddy to offer Microsoft Office 365 hosted email service to businesses
Microsoft has managed to find a strategy partner in GoDaddy for its Office 365 hosted email services for small businesses. Microsoft, GoDaddy have been partners for years on email services based on…
Google ties up with Indian retailer Myntra.com for Shoppable Hangout
Shoppable Hangout – a new feature to be launched in India by Google in collaboration with Myantra.com will allow users to shop, chat and comment simultaneously. Google+ Shoppable Hangout On Air will…
Facebook to cull sponsored stories this April
Facebook’s troubled and controversial sponsored stories feature will breathe its last as the social networking giant has decided to cull it this April. In a platform roadmap update, Facebook revealed that it…
Opting out of the new Gmail ‘Email via Google+’ feature
Are you concerned about strangers emailing you through ‘email via Google+’ option? Are you worried that your inbox will be flooded with unwanted emails from complete strangers? No worries. You can control…
Google adds new ‘Email via Google+’ feature to Gmail
Google has introduced a new feature which it claims will make it easier for people to reach each other without actually knowing their email address and will allow them to communicate over…
Demonoid tracker is live, but users skeptical
BitTorrent tracker Demonoid is back after 18 months hiatus and is already linked to nearly 400,000 torrent files and over 1 million peers, but suspicions have been raised considering that the tracker…