Google sued in India for its Blogger service
Online privacy seems to be taking a hit in India as Google has now been sued by an Indian company to reveal the name of a blogger who they claim is defaming them.
Gremach Infrastructure Equipments & Projects has filed the lawsuit asking the courts to order Google to [...]
AOL completes Bebo acquisition
US based internet company AOL has announced that they have now completed the acquisition of social networking service Bebo.
Bebo is very popular in Europe. However it is a relatively smaller player in this market dominated by MySpace, Facebook and Orkut.
Hi5 and Friendster are some other players in the social networking industry.
AOL said [...]
Orkut in India offering OpenSocial applications
If you are a user of Google owned Orkut service in India, you would have noticed the addition of applications feature.
This feature is similar to Facebook applications and enables the user to expand the services provided by the social network.
Orkut would be expanding the availability of these applications to their [...]
MySpace India launched
Social networking is pretty popular in the Indian market. But most people prefer to use Google’s Orkut or Friendster. Even Facebook is very popular amongst the web users around here.
MySpace however is the largest social networking service in the world and they have now launched the Indian version of the site.
MySpace India is [...]
Facebook Chat in pre-launch beta stage
Social networking service Facebook has now started the launch of their Chat service on some of the networks.
The company says that the service is in pre-launch beta right now and it would be expanded to all the members slowly.
The chat messages are also said to update the users with mini-feed [...]
News Corp hoping for USD 1 billion revenues from online services
MySpace.com parent company News Corp has said that they expect to make revenues touching USD 1 billion from their online services this fiscal year.
This is however below their previous expected figures exceeding USD 1 billion. They expect their margin to be around 20% of this [...]
