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Google might own the world’s most popular search engine and video site, but one area where the Mountain View company isn’t doing quite as well is social media. This is a shame from them, considering the huge amount of money involved in services like Facebook and Twitter. Social media has been growing exponentially for the [...]

International money service PayPal suspended their services to India this week without notice. The service was halted on Saturday. The decision shouldn’t affect commercial payments but it does mean that any non commercial ‘personal’ payments won’t go through and currently local merchants cannot withdraw money through banks into Rupees although that at least should be resolved [...]

Ask Jeeves was set up in 1996 as an alternative to other search engines at the time. The general idea behind the website was to find results using natural language rather than having to worry about learning how to efficiently search on more complicated sites. The company also featured a butler called Jeeves on their [...]

Google has been looking at trying to integrate information from social media websites into its search engine for some time, but this week the search engine has taken the next step, announcing that its social search feature has finally gone into beta accessible to users. The idea behind social search is to be integrating blogs, photos [...]

The idea of text fundraising might be quite a new one, but it’s starting to see a massive explosion in its use that could see it overtaking much more established methods of donating to a charity, especially during a crisis situation. After the devastating earthquakes hit Haiti earlier this month the American Red Cross launched its [...]

We report on the browser market share here at Kingpin every month, because it’s important for site owners to know about online with browsers, so they can code their site and plan accordingly. Obviously, averages don’t often work for everyone. Owners of sites that see a tech savvy audience might see that Firefox and Chrome [...]

Following recent cyber attacks on Google.cn, the companies presence in China, Google have recently decided to cease censoring their search results in the country, which will likely lead to a full withdrawal considering such a decision is against the law in China, which heavily censors the internet in a method that has become known as [...]

Google has been in the news a lot this week as the search giant announced that it would stop the censoring of its search results in China which could lead to the service being shut down in the country entirely, and the offices closed down as it’s likely to be against the censorship heavy Chinese [...]

A slate computer has been launched into the American markets by Microsoft and HP this month. The device was long rumoured and was finally shown to the public at the first time during last year’s consumer Electronics Show. The device was announced following rumours that Apple was creating a similar tablet computer. Tablet PCs have yet [...]

It’s pretty strange thinking that Google Chrome was only released in September 2008. Google’s web browser might not have been feature packed at release, but it did provide a more lightweight alternative to the now feature rich Firefox as well as providing what it claimed was a more stable web operating environment. One of the biggest [...]