- Google acquires well-known restaurant review company Zagat.
- Yahoo CEO fired! Fate of the company unknown.
- TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington resigns.
- Continuing to play Google+ catch up, Facebook begins auto-grouping friends into smart lists.
- Facebook to launch music platform in September.
- The Pirate Bay launches new file hosting site.
- Skype launches its own app store, because everyone loves app stores right?
- BlackBerry phones to run Android apps. VERY SMART MOVE!
- Steve Jobs resigns as CEO of Apple.
- HP drops price of TouchPad to $99 after webOS hardware discontinued.
- Twitter adds user photo galleries.
- iPhone 5 coming to Sprint?
- Google buys Motorola Mobility for a measly 12.5 billion dollars.
- HP axes webOS hardware, leaving an uncertain future for the OS.
- Foursquare launches event check-ins.
- Travelling abroad? Skype launches pay-per-minute Wifi service through new Skype Wi-Fi app for iPhone.
- Is it raining cats and dogs? Check the weather directly in Google Maps!
- Apple becomes the most valuable company in the world.
- Gizmodo not charged in lost iPhone 4 prototype case.
- Facebook releases standalone Messenger app for iPhone and Android.
- Twitter introduces real-time activity streams and its new photo sharing feature.
- Amazon hits back at Apple with its Kindle Cloud Reader. Take that iOS terms of service!
- Digg launches real-time Newswire feature.
- Google launches Games for Google+.
- Google+ hits 25 million users to become the fastest growing website ever.
- Google launches Instant Pages for Chrome. Top search results are now pre-loaded for instant page views.
- Skype releases official iPad app. iPad 2 users get their video chat on.
- Twitter launches HTML5 version for iPad. I’d rather use the official app.
- Google announces Page Speed Service, a CDN to help speed up the web.
- RIM lays off 2000 workers. Blackberry users continue wishing they had iPhones.
- Nintendo to slash price of 3DS from $249 to $169 on August 12th.
- Jailbreakers find Facebook’s iPad app hidden inside the latest version of their iPhone app.
- Facebook for Business launches, helping technophobes make their businesses more social.
- OSX Lion was released in the Mac App Store. Apple brags that Lion downloads top one million in first day.
- Ars Technica published an exhaustive review of Lion, examining the new OS in painful detail.
- Apple also released OSX Lion Server on Lion launch day along with new MacBook Airs, Mac Minis, and a Thunderbolt Display.
- The Google+ iPhone app is finally available in the App Store.
- Google+ approaches 20 million users in less than 3 weeks.
- Microsoft reveals Droid-themed Xbox 360 bundle for Star Wars Kinect. Nerds drool across the galaxy.