Google is hard at work creating a new way for you to view and share the latest goings-on in current events. Reportedly called Google Propeller, the new digital news platform is being developed for Android Honeycomb tablets as well as the iPad. It will revolutionize the way users interact with the daily news. At least that’s what Google wants to believe. A report on Allthingsd.com called it a “Flipboard killer,” referring to the social news platform that launched last year. Flipboard has been downloaded 3.5 million times and has received more than $60 million in venture capital from some of the top players in the industry. The app allows users to “flip” throug

Twitter now delivers an astonishing 350 billion tweets each day, the company said on Friday. ”Delivering 350 billion Tweets a day is a terribly fun engineering challenge. But, it doesn’t capture how passionate our users are,” the company said from its official Twitter Engineering account. Coincidentally we’re sure, the news comes just one day after Google bragged that it had amassed 10 million Google+ users in just two weeks, and that these users collectively share 1 billion items each day. Google+ has quite a way to go before it is anywhere near as popular as Twitter, of course, but it’s certainly doing well for a 2-week-old product. Read

Twitter is reportedly renegotiating terms for a deal with Bing. The social networking and microblogging service failed to agree terms with Google earlier this month which saw Google suspend its realtime search product. Google had been allowed to access Twitter’s real time stream of tweet data. The agreement, originally announced in October 2009, expired on July 2. Microsoft has a similar deal with Twitter which allows it to use tweet data in its search results. All Things Digital reports that Twitter is attempting to renegotiate a deal with Bing. According to the site’s sources, Microsoft and Bing are “far apart” on a number of issues, including the price for a deal and the way t

Twitter has finally announced that it has acquired TweetDeck. “This acquisition is an important step forward for us,” Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said in a blog post. “TweetDeck provides brands, publishers, marketers and others with a powerful platform to track all the real-time conversations they care about.” Costolo and TweetDeck CEO Iain Dodsworth made it clear that TweetDeck development will continue and that it will remain largely independent. “Change may well be inevitable, but we remain the same team, staying in London, with the same focus and products, and now with the support and resources to allow us to grow and take on even bigger challenges,” Dodsworth said i

Twitter might introduce pages for brands similar to those on Facebook, according to reports. The initiative, which Marketing Magazine reports is being lead by Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and President of Revenue Adam Bain, is to give brands their own space on Twitter — a page they could point to and use to deliver content, while encouraging Twitter users to follow them. In a similar move, Foursquare launched Pages Gallery Monday, a showcase of different company pages on Foursquare. The question is: does Twitter really need branded pages? On Facebook, the entire brand experience revolves around the company’s page. That part of the experience is currently lacking on Twitter, w

Twitter has just announced the service’s official iPad app. It’s free and comes with a slew of touch interface bells and whistles built right in. The app is intended to allow for seamless navigation between tweets, photos, web pages, videos and other media and updates. It’s also usable even for those who don’t have Twitter  accounts. Twitter for iPad [iTunes link] has a few new UI touches that you haven’t seen elsewhere. These features are custom-designed for the larger screen and touch capabilities of the iPad. It also caters to what the iPad was made for: media consumption rather than creation. Twitter’s Leland Rechis, a mobile UX designer, writes on the Twitter blog

Google has acquired a mobile social gaming company called SocialDeck, in what is just its latest addition to a shopping spree of social media startups. This latest acquisition comes just three days after its last one, the purchase of Angstro, was confirmed. The rapid and mass buyouts of so many social companies highly suggest Google is working feverishly behind the scenes to bring a brand new kind of social experience to users. This latest purchase is a company that makes mobile games playable across different platforms like Blackberry and the iPhone . Those games are also connectable to services like Facebook. Google is most certainly going to be bringing out some sort of social gam

Twitter has been plagued by a series of glitches in recent days which has caused the service to run more slowly or go offline completely. “From a site stability and service outage perspective, it’s been Twitter’s worst month since last October,” said Sean Garrett, a spokesman for the site, in a blog post. “We’d already said this is going to be a rocky few weeks. We’re working through tweaks to our system in order to provide greater stability at a time when we’re facing record traffic. We have long-term solutions we’re working towards, but in the meantime, we are making real-time adjustments so that we can grow our capacity an

The struggling Internet company AOL Inc. plans to sell or shut down the online community Bebo nearly two years after buying it for $850 million in an expansion of its social-networking ambitions. In an e-mail to employees Tuesday, Jon Brod, who runs AOL’s startup acquisition and investment unit, AOL Ventures, said Bebo would need a “significant investment” to remain competitive. Although Bebo has been in the shadow of rivals such as Facebook, it has been strong in foreign markets, including Britain. AOL wanted to tap that strength abroad to drive traffic to AOL’s other free, ad-supported Web sites, especially internationally, while leveraging AOL’s i

According to ComScore’s latest data, which measures US web traffic, the number of unique visitors to Twitter increased by nine per cent from December 2009 to January 2010. Google began integrating Twitter users’ tweets on December 7 2009 into its main search results in a bid to make its service more real-time. The deal has helped Twitter’s number of unique visitors reach its highest figure yet – attracting 21.79 million uniques in January, which topped its peak figures in July 2009, when the microblogging site attracted 21.25 million visitors, according to ComScore data. Despite the Google alliance only starting in December – the deal appears to have had an