Google has announced its plans to make Google TV an international service in 2012. “We’re looking to roll out internationally through the course of 2012,” a Google spokesperson has said.  The spokesperson offered no addidtinal detail on the launch date, and did not specify why the introduction to the international market has taken so long. “We don’t break out the reasons why, but we do want to make sure that users everywhere get the full experience, so we want to make sure we work towards that,” he said.

Facebook has started featuring ads within the home page’s main news feed. The ads are now marked as 'featured'. The social networking site is trying to distinguish these ads from sidebar ads that are marked as 'sponsored'. The new format has faced much criticism, as the new ads may confuse facebook users by leading them to believe that the ads are stories about their friends. 

The Google+ API (application programming interface) is expected to take a little while longer until its launch. Although Google is hard at work on building the tools which would enable developers to build third-party applications for the new social networking service from the search giant, the API’s launch is still “months” away.

Facebook now ranks as the third largest video site on the Web in terms of unique viewers according to comScore, with an estimated 51.5 million people on Facebook watching a video during the month of July. 

Google’s Second Quarter earnings call a lot of focus on the success of Google Android. This was put in Larry Page’s successful consumer products category. How successful is Android exactly?

Facebook’s incredible worldwide growth has reached another major milestone: the service now has 750 million monthly active users, according to a source close to the company. We reached out to Facebook for confirmation, and a company spokesperson responded that they don’t have anything to announce at this time.