Microsoft Charm Chew on this: two days after unveiling the developer preview of the next generation of its Windows operating system (“Hands On With Windows 8″), Microsoft filed a U.S. federal trademark registration for the word ‘CHARM’. The description provided to the USPTO for...

If you use Facebook,  you have been often faced with this problem,  someone you meet once requests to be your “friend” on the service, even though you are not friends. To help manage this problem, Facebook allows people to subscribe to parts of your news feed without having to become...

Online sales still make up a small portion of overall retail spending — one estimate pegs it at $10 billion, a tiny fraction of India’s $500 billion retail market — but they are growing fast. FlipKart says it had revenue of 500 million rupees ($11 million) in its last fiscal year, and is...

Mertado, the social shopping startup that allows users to find and buy products on Facebook, today launched “Mertado TV”, a new product that will combine lifestyle video content with product selection on the social web. What does that mean? Mertado TV will deliver syndicated content from...

Miso Media, a startup that’s looking to help you learn how to play guitar with the help of your smartphone or tablet. In addition to a product update, the company had some significant news: it’s about to raise $2.4 million in a round led by Mind Fund (based in Hong Kong), with...