SOFTWARE

No denying the fact that Apple’s Siri is a runaway success, and also the key feature in the iPhone 4S that helped the device to surpass expectations when it was released in late 2011. Siri, which is not considerably better than most voice recognition software when it comes to returning results, is mostly known for its human-like interaction and fun to use. Google is well aware of the threat Siri could cause, and is hard at work on releasing a competing product known as “Assistant.”

The $64 billion global video games industry, shaken up by the likes of Zynga in recent years, may be on the verge of another identity crisis.

Alex Big Red Webster, a former New York Giants football halfback, died on Saturday at the age of 80, in Port St. Lucie, Fla., the team confirmed with the media. The cause of death hasn't been specified at this time, according to NJ.com. His name began trending on Twitter late Saturday.

Tajikistan blocked local access to Facebook and two Russian-language sites that published an article critical of its long-serving president on Saturday, representatives of two Internet providers said.

Facebook Inc will add more banks in coming weeks to help underwrite the company's initial public offering, two sources familiar with its plans said on Friday.

Michael McKibben convinced a jury that Facebook infringed on his patented technology for social media sharing, but was unable to show the patent was valid. A federal appeals court will hear McKibben's appeal Monday.

Facebook Inc will add more banks in coming weeks to help underwrite the company's initial public offering, two sources familiar with its plans said on Friday.

Bigpoint said it hopes to capture the drama and action viewers have come to love from Game of Thrones in the form of a video game experience.

Did Ben Flajnik find true love?

Japanese researchers have developed a new gadget to stop a conversation in seconds.

Shares of Yelp (NYSE: YELP) the San Francisco-based review Web site, soared as much as 73 percent to $26 in their first hour of trading Friday.

Consumer review website Yelp Inc's shares traded more than 60 percent above their initial public offering price in their market debut on Friday, as investors rushed to buy a piece of the growing local advertising market.

Shares of Yelp (NYSE: YELP), the San Francisco-based review website, soared 61 percent in their first hour of trading Friday.

Zynga Inc is launching a new games service that allows users to play on the company's website instead of Facebook, potentially driving traffic away from the world's No. 1 social network that is its biggest partner.

Twitter users are about to become major marketing fodder, as two research companies get set to release information to clients who will pay for the privilege of mining the data.

Yelp, the San Francisco-based review website, raised $107 million in its initial public offering and priced its shares $1 above prior expectations.

Facebook Inc plans to increase its $2.5 billion credit line to help cover a major tax hit when employee stock awards vest shortly after it goes public, according to two sources familiar with the company's plans.

Facebook Inc plans to increase its $2.5 billion credit line to help cover a major tax hit when employee stock awards vest shortly after it goes public, according to two sources familiar with the company's plans.

Want to win a million dollars? How about taking up the challenge of hacking Google Chrome. Google is making its voice be heard by awarding a $1 million incentive to persons who are capable of hacking Chrome. Awarding $1 million dollars just for hacking a browser is extreme, but then again, Google Chrome is not just a browser, it is also an OS, so this move by the advertising giant makes sense. Unless Google knows something hackers don’t, the company is setting itself up for a huge blunder, as h...

Since its release in July last year, Google+ trended as the fastest growing social networking site in 2011. At the time of its debut, Google+ was being considered as a serious business-killer for Facebook and other social networking site. The Circles of Google+ pleased most of Internet users. As a result, millions of users signed up on Google+ and started spending time there. But, it did not last long and the same people now seem to have returned back to Facebook, Twitter and other like sites. A...

Yelp Inc priced its initial public offering of class A common stock at $15 a share, above the expected price range, valuing the U.S. consumer review website at nearly $900 million.