Foursquare, the geolocation social network that started the whole “check-in” ball rolling, has hit 10 million users. To commemorate, they’ve released a very interesting infographic. Highlights of Foursquare’s Two-Year Journey To celebrate reac..

The Winklevosses and their partner Divya Narendra dropped their legal dispute against Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, deciding not to continue their Supreme Court action for more than the $65 million plus already awarded to them. Their lawsuit was a…

Carol Bartz was named the Yahoo! CEO in 2009. She has been a major part of efforts to change the company’s floundering position, and her voice was likely among the strongest in the decision to partner with Microsoft and sunset a number of less-than-profitable Yahoo! products. But Carol Bartz, according to recent information, may be seeing her own sunset at Yahoo!.

Google is now showing the Google +1 counts for logged out users. When the Google +1 feature launched in March, searchers were only able to see who in their Google network +1′ed a search result. Now, if you search while logged out, Google will show you the total +1 count for some search..

While the world of web technology is far more about loyalty, revenue, and a few other less-than-easy to track metrics, Google has nevertheless earned some bonus points for being the first in one easily tracked category: monthly unique visitors (or MUVs). While Facebook has been growing rapidly, with a 30% growth rate in the last twelve months that threatened to hit the billion user point before Google could make it, Google did cross the finish line first. May of 2011 was the first month that Google is estimated to have seen more than a billion unique visitors.

A woman in Utah was held hostage for 16 hours by a gunman who kept posting to Facebook and even posted photos of the two of them he took with his camera phone. His Facebook page become a popular stop for friends and family, as well as other people…

According to a study sponsored by Google and run by Keller Fay, Google is directly involved as an informational resource in 15.4% of all conversations about a brand.

Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz recently posted a presentation on slide share named The Evolution of Google’s Rankings. It was from a presentation he gave in the Searchmetrics Partner Meeting a couple months ago…

Fans of Gmail likely know that the service allows for simple video chatting directly in your browser. While the Gmail-based video and voice chat isn’t seen as a strong competitor with industry leaders like Skype, the technology being used demonstrates some capabilities – and implied possibilities – for Google. It seems those possibilities are now coming to fruition, thanks to the WebRTCsoftware purchased by Google last year.