Twingly launches micro-blog search
Blog search engine Twingly has announced the launch of their micro-blog search service.
This search engine indexes content posted by users of micro-blogging services like Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Pownce, Bloggy and Bleeper.
Pownce is of course discontinued now but the archives are going to be available for the next six months. They [...]

Google discarding some services to improve resource usage
Google has some disappointing news for the users of some of their less popular services.
The company is discarding some of these products. Some other projects would not be further developed.
Google Video: Google would soon disable video uploads on this service. Google already has YouTube and even Picasa [...]

TechCrunch: Google to acquire Digg for USD 200 million
Popular blog TechCrunch has reported that the search engine giant Google is closing in on signing an acquisition deal with Digg.
The value of the deal could be around USD 200 million.
Of course, no confirmations are out yet from either of the two companies involved in this [...]

Google acquires Jaiku mobile content sharing service
Search engine giant Google continues to acquire companies which further enhances the possibilities of a rumored gPhone.
Google has now acquired Jaiku which enable mobile users to share updates on what they are doing.
The service is basically a social networking platform which also features mini-messaging service.
It would founded by Jyri [...]