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Today (April 22nd, 2013),Google is showing an excellent animated Doodle for celebrating Earth Day. This doodle depicts all the seasons.If we click on the letter “G” flowers will fly.Bears will come from their cave if we click on the letter”O”.If we want rain we have to click the on the sky. Earth Day is a day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s natural environment. Earth…

Saturday, 20 April 2013 A powerful earthquake jolted China’s Sichuan province today. Source:AP This earthquake is measured by China’s seismological bureau at magnitude-7 and the U.S. Geological Survey at 6.6.

Monday, April, 15, 2013 – The Search Giant Google is honoring the famous Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler on his 306th birthday by showing a Doodle on its home page today. Leonhard Euler was arguably the most important mathematician of the 18th century and one of the greatest of all time. He introduced most modern mathematical terminology and notation and was also renowned for his work in mechanics, fluid…

Google has announced a new Tool “Inactive Account Manager” which gives Google users the option to have information from inactive accounts wiped from the system or to be shared with friends or family members.   Inactive Account Manager will allow the users to  have their data deleted three, six, nine or 12 months after it becomes inactive. Users can also select “trusted contacts” to receive information from various Google services…

Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 – North Korea warned foreigners in South Korea to take evacuation measures on Tuesday in case of war, in the latest escalation of warnings from Pyongyang. “We do not wish harm on foreigners in South Korea should there be a war,” its KCNA news agency, citing the spokesperson for its Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee. Source Reuters Few weeks back North Korea threatened South Korea with “final…

Facebook  Founder Mark Zuckerberg  had announced about “Facebook Home”, a family of Facebook Apps. for Android Devices. “You’re going to be able to turn your Android phone into a great social device,” Zuckerberg said at the unveiling. “Our phones today are designed around apps, not people. We want to flip that around.” Facebook Home will put updates from Facebook right on the home screen via a feature called Cover Feed….

Amazon.com, Inc announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Goodreads, a leading site for readers and book recommendations that helps people find and share books they love. “Amazon and Goodreads share a passion for reinventing reading,” said Russ Grandinetti, Amazon Vice President, Kindle Content. “Goodreads has helped change how we discover and discuss books and, with Kindle, Amazon has helped expand reading around the world. In addition, both…

Google has started showing Google Plus Friends with their Photo in Auto Suggest list while searching from Google Search box.   On clicking the Google plus Auto suggestion, Google is showing the Search results for that Google plus Name.   This feature is NOT yet appearing for all Google Plus Users. And, right now it is NOT including the Business page or Community pages while showing the Auto suggestion. Recently…

March 11, 2013, Monday- Today Google shows an interactive animated Doodle for celebrating 61st birthday of Douglas Adams. Douglas Noel Adams was an English writer, humorist and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a “trilogy” of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a…

Groupon Co-Founder Andrew Mason was removed from Groupon CEO position by the Groupon Board, and Andrew Mason had publicly published his final email sent to the Groupon Employees. . He is saying that “I was fired Today” in the brutally honest internal memo to employees on his departure. He takes responsibility for the company’s downturn, expresses his appreciation for his staff, and wishes them well. ‘For those who are concerned…