Buzz Earns Google A Class-Action Lawsuit

Google joined the $250 Million sFund for investing in "small social networking startups" which was started by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), a world leading venture capital firm last year. Other notable members of...

There are mixed reports about whether Google will preview a new social networking platform at the South by South West interactive conference in Austin, Texas. Technology blog ReadWriteWeb claims that Google will take another...

Reports that Google would be launching a direct assault on Facebook with a social networking service called Circles within the next few days have been strongly denied by the advertising giant.The company was allegedly working on...

Search engine giant Google has agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit initiated by users furious about the way social networking feature Buzz was thrusted upon them. The service, which has been launched back...

Google is in talks with several online game developers to create a social networking platform that will rival Facebook.Citing sources familiar with the matter, the Wall Street Journal reported that the company is in talks with...

Google already have the pieces of a gigantic puzzle that could provide with a potential rival - Google Me - to the hegemony of Facebook in the social networking arena. Let's count them; Mail, Talk, Voice, Buzz, Wave, Orkut,...

A former Facebook executive has fanned the flames of rumours which suggest that Google is getting into the social networking game. Yesterday we reported that Digg CEO Kevin Rose had tweeted about a new Facebook-like service...

Courting more privacy outrage, Google the unstoppable snoop is mulling the launch of facial recognition technology according to a report in the FT. CEO Eric Schmidt said the company is in a bit of a quandary after getting caught...

Google has responded to complaints made by privacy regulators who claim the search giant ensure its products comply with privacy laws before releasing them.An example given of Google's lack of compliance was its social networking...

Microsoft-owned R&D company Fuse Labs has unveiled a new software tool at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The tool, Spindex, gathers users' posts from social media sites from sites such as Facebook and Twitter into one...

The Guardian is reporting that UK's privacy regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office, has reprimanded search engine giant Google for not adhering to the privacy norms and has asked to improve the privacy...

Despite numerous attempts by Google to control the damage caused by its controversial privacy settings in its newly launched social networking tool Buzz, it has again been targeted by a lawsuit yet again. This time from one Barry...

Search engine giant Google has announced that, come April 5th, the company's Buzz social networking tool will get a new privacy reset function, which will ask the users to confirm or change their current Buzz privacy...

Apparently adhering to its popular “be no evil” motto, the search behemoth Google is working on a plug-in for its signature web analytics service that will enable users to opt out of being tracked by the service, it...

The first ever third-party application for Google's new social networking tool, Buzz, has been released on Apple's popular iTunes App Store and goes by the name of Buzzie; it is designed to offer iPhone and Gmail users a chance...