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Facebook talks about the new Google social network, while introducing a new service.

The new Facebook announcement about a partnership with Skype Technologies SA to offer video calls could have the largest social network site competing with other video call giants such as Google Inc. and Apple.

Apparently Google's hot new social networking venture Google+ is giving sleepless nights to Facebook folks. The latest news from Facebook is neither about an awesome new feature they have added to the social networking site, nor is it about Project Spartan. In an act that can be called the height of desperation, Facebook blocked a Google Chrome extension developed for exporting Facebook Friends' lists to Google+ over the weekend.

Users have tried out the Google+ and praises have been high for the social network's latest return into the market. As the tech giant looks to continue its momentum, Facebook will look to counter Google, setting up an epic battle of social networks in the coming months. For now there are five things that users would like to see even as Google+ is diligently building its new network.

The combination of YouTube's user generated content and Hulu's professional content could deliver strong synergies for Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), Barclays Capital said.

The iPhone 5 release date rumors are taking firmer shape around a possible September launch. There are reports that say Apple has given orders for around 15 million units of iPhone 5 with a delivery schedule that begins in September.

In an effort to push its all new Google+, the search engine giant plans to retire several non-Google brand names like Picasa and Blogger and rename them as Google products.

Facebook is scheduled to launch something awesome on Wednesday, but hasn't divulged what exactly it is. Speculation is circulating that Facebook will launch a new video chat product powered by Skype that works in browser.

Google is re-branding Picasa and Blogger as ‘Google Photos’ and ‘Google Blogs’ respectively to further unify its new social networking site Google+ into its gamut of products.

Do you have a private Google profile? If yes, then you better make it public before July 31 to avoid being deleted

comScore has the latest stats for the fierce smartphone OS war. Google's Android is still number one and Apple is still improving. RIM's Blackberry, however, is hurting badly.

Google+ has triggered a response from Facebook as the two tech companies go head to head with the release of Google+. The social network war of 2011 has begun as Google will look to power its momentum with possible integrations of Zynga games, Hulu TV shows, Groupon-like deal coupons, and music through the cloud. These are some of the things we would love to see on Google's latest project and it is quite possible it may happen.

Google's Android phones continued its march to dominance. For the three months ended May 2011, it has 38 percent of the US smartphone market share, up from 33 percent in February 2011.

Google Inc and Microsoft Corp were sued for infringing a Louisiana company's patent with their map websites, which let users navigate street-level views of towns and cities.

Who top the Google+ follower list?

The fate of Google's new social app reaching a global stable of mobile users is in the hands of Steve Jobs.

Nokia has cut the prices of its smartphones in Europe in an attempt to slow the decline in its share of the higher end of the market, two industry sources said on Tuesday.

The Twitter partnership that Google had to power its real-time search will be discontinued and instead, powered by Google+ in its latest move to push the social network.

Google has temporarily disabled the Realtime feature, which gives users results from Twitter and a bunch of other real-time news sources, on its search engine after a 2009 Twitter deal expired.

Google+, which had generated ‘insane demand’ within a couple of days of its launch, could easily beat the Facebook frenzy of more than 500 million users, if it could get access to the information of the long preserved friends in Facebook.

Google+ on July 4 has revealed a statistics which says that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the most followed user on Google+ than Google CEO Larry Page.

A universal iOS app has been submitted to Apple’s App Store.

iPhone 5 is already under all kinds of threats from Samsung Galaxy S2 and the newly rumored Samsung Hercules.

Google has temporarily disabled its powerful Realtime search feature, which gives users results from Twitter and a bunch of other real-time news sources, as a 2009 agreement to display up-to-the-minute Twitter results expired.

There haven't been any radical political or administrative changes happening in China, recently. Nor have there been any reports that said China is reconsidering its Internet censorship regulations. The country notorious for jailing bloggers and blocking Web sites, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, is planning to buy a significant chunk of Facebook's stake, according to a BusinessInsider report.

Whenever you desperately want something, criminals have always come up with ways to rip you off. It's a practice as old as time.

The Google+ app for iOS is set for release later this year.

Google Doodle celebrated the Fourth of July – the Independence Day of America, by portraying a colorful map of United States of America with monumental and iconic figures across the country.

China's Baidu is to partner with Microsoft for English-language search, giving the U.S. software giant a chance to expand its tiny Web presence in a market Google has stepped back from, and helping the Chinese company's international ambitions.