London: Dick Costolo, the outgoing chief executive of Twitter, has warned that the next boss will have to manage an increasingly complex set of geopolitical challenges as well as the demands of Wall Street. The 51-year-old confessed during a farewell interview published on his last day on the job thatRead More

Washington: Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg figures there could be a formula that explains how people think. During a wide-ranging online question-and-answer session on his Facebook page Tuesday, Zuckerberg told famed physicist Stephen Hawking he would like to find that equation. “I`m most interested in questions about people,” Zuckerberg said inRead More

Needless to ask, but can you imagine a world without cameras now? Can you enjoy any event without taking pictures? The mere thought is enough to scare us. So, to encapsulate this essential part of our lives now, June 29th everyday is celebrated as Camera Day. This day celebrates photographs,Read More

New York: Coming as a shot in the arm for fledgling businesses, the US Securities and Exchange Commission has given its nod to start-ups for using the social network to drum up interest in future stocks and debt offerings, engadget.com reported. Though this would only work for small companies raisingRead More

New York: In a major breakthrough that can make the internet superfast and cheap, researchers have successfully increased the maximum power — and therefore distance — at which optical signals can be sent through optical fibres. The advance has the potential to make the internet superfast by increasing data transmissionRead More

New York: A “third-generation” steel being developed at a US university could help auto manufacturers roll out fuel-efficient vehicles that could meet future energy efficiency requirements, say researchers. The development of this new steel, known as a “third-generation advanced high-strength steel”, is under way at Missouri University of Science andRead More

San Francisco: Facebook Inc released new diversity data Friday that showed the number of women and minorities has remained little changed over the past year. The number of women increased only 1 percentage point, from 31 percent to 32 percent. The number of black people, Hispanics and people of twoRead More

New York: Facebook has introduced a new feature that lets users show off their support for marriage equality by superimposing a rainbow over their profile picture. CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally announced the Celebrate Pride tool on his personal page following the US Supreme Court’s ruling that same-sex couples have theRead More

San Francisco: Google Inc said on Thursday it had started testing the latest prototypes of its self-driving cars on Mountain View, California roads, with safety drivers aboard. The prototypes will join Google`s Lexus cars, which use the same self-driving software, the company said in a blog post on Thursday. (http://bit.ly/1GKVqur).Read More

Washington: Yahoo has released an update of its mobile search engine.According to thenextweb.com, the new update will now place images, videos and reviews in the focus. Andrew Poon, Yahoo’s vice president of product management, said in a blog post that they know when users are on the move, they areRead More