Katherine Heigl and her adopted daughter Adalaide Marie Hope Kelley stepped out for a little family lunch on Wednesday, much to the delight of the paparazzi. Also along for the outing was Heigel’s mother, who accompanied the “Knocked Up” for …

One of the more interesting rumors that has come about this week said Konami was working on a sequel to their excellent Castlevania: Lords of Shadow. Those rumors gained a bit more traction this week with the launch of a …

Forget about the Facebook IPO fumbling.  Consider Facebook’s lethargic race toward the front of the mobile lines.  The uneventful IPO may cause lost investor fervor; but some game-producing brands’ interests in Facebook have already been waning. Let’s peer at Facebook’s friendship with CrowdStar Inc., an app development team.  CrowdStar was developing games for the social [...]

As you might expect, not everyone in England is welcoming the Olympics with open arms. So much so, in fact, there’s an official protest movement which can be found at ProtestLondon2012.com. This “Official Protesters” collective is overseen by a group …

Whenever we here at WebProNews have speculated or reported on class action lawsuits filed against Facebook, the nature of those complaints has almost always had to do with the social networking giant’s dubious handling of user privacy. Given the remarkably …

Yahoo! has made big news today with the launch of the new Axis browser. Axis is available today as an iOS app, though an Android version is said to be in the works. In an interesting twist, Yahoo! has decided …

Google’s Knowledge Graph has claimed its first “victim,” if you will: The content box that showed “People and Pages On Google+” is gone. In its place? A variety of Knowledge Graph-related content that will show up differently depending on the search query. In making... Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

Earlier this week, we asked, Can search save Yahoo?” Little did we know, the company was just about to launch its most significant search offering in quite some time. That product would be Yahoo Axis, which is one part standalone …

A startup in Ohio called Gigabit Squared has raised roughly $200 million to fund a gigabit-per-second broadband initiative involving six universities across the U.S. Gigabit Squared has called upon the the University Community Next Generation Innovation Project (Gig.U), which consists …

A Wall Street Journal article on Google’s Penguin update highlighted some of the damage done to small businesses. Taking a quick look at these hurting websites offers some reasons why they have lost their search rankings and traffic from Google.

Over the next couple years, print giant Hewlett Packard will scale back their workforce by as much as 8%, or 27,000 people. It is all part of a massive initiative to restructure the way the company does business, and to …

The Saudi Prince’s mansion that was to be constructed on a five-acre tract of land outside of Beverly Hills is being postponed after neighbors demanded the proposed project be investigated due to the possible environmental concerns. According to Reuters, Prince …

Back in February, University of Miami college student Joaquin Amador Serrapio Jr. had this to say on his Facebook page: “If anyones going to UM to see Obama today, get ur phones out and record. Cause at any moment im …

Did you hear about Yahoo’s mobile browser/browser extension yet? It’s called Axis and it’s pretty neat. It’s definitely one of the most attractive products that Yahoo has put out over the years. One of the more attractive things about it …

Until now, GameStop’s annual EXPO conference has been exclusively for GameStop employees. Today, GameStop has announced it is opening up the conference to a wider audience. Members of GameStop’s PowerUp Rewards program are invited to attend the conference, which will …

YouTube has partnered up with WITNESS, an international organization that utilizes video for human rights advocacy, and Storyful, a social network of aggregated news, to create a powerful new outlet that offers the world a new venue to spotlight important …

Every now and then you stumble across a video on YouTube that should have gone viral and seen millions of views. For some reason this one didn’t even though it’s funny and downright genius. It was posted on YouTube about …

“American Idol” saw more than one winner last night, and although folksy crooner Phillip Phillips took home the title, two of the show’s vets went home an engaged couple. While many fans of the show didn’t realize Diana DeGarmo and …

New Web browser designed to deliver a smarter, faster, more visual search experience across devices When consumers search the Web, they want answers now---wherever they may be. Today, Yahoo! announced Yahoo! Axis, a new Web browser designed to meet that demand by providing a simpler, faster and more personalized search experience that allows users to [...]

From online vouchers used as link bait for SEO or emailed discount codes used to reward loyal customers, businesses can use discounts to drive their marketing. So how can you use this tactic to increase your website’s traffic and what are the pitfalls? Voucher Codes Voucher codes are an easy way to offer discounts in [...]