Google turns 18 today

In some countries, Google is now considered an adult. The tech giant celebrates its 18^th birthday today and it commemorates it with a Google Doodle, of course. Gerben Steenks created the festive GIF you see today on September 27. But while Google has been celebrating its big day today since 2006, no one knows why this date has been picked—not even Google.

The first Google Doodle to celebrate the company’s fourth anniversary was released on September 27 but when it comes to significant dates for the company it doesn’t quite add up. Larry Page and Sergey Brin registered the domain on September 15, 1997 and incorporated it on September 4, 1998. Let’s just say September is a big month for the tech giant.

Source: CNET

The Apple Beat: On the iPhone's 8th year anniversary

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

It was roughly around this time in 2007 that the world saw its first official glimpse of Apple's iPhone. As of June of 2014, there have been over 500 million iPhones sold. It's kind of fun to look back and see how the mobile world has changed since then.

The iPhone can really be credited for jumpstarting the modern smartphone age. While there were multi-functional smartphones before that that could access the Internet, make calls and take pictures, none of them really pushed the idea of multi-touch as well as powerful handheld apps.

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Gmail turns 10 today

April 1 isn’t just about the jokes and pranks. Exactly 10 years ago, Google launched Gmail in beta. It started out as an invite-only thing until 2007 and grew into one of the biggest free online email services. The Verge said it tried to set itself apart by offering bigger storage than Yahoo! Mail or Microsoft’s Hotmail and let users send out up to 25MB attachments in the beginning. It even made inbox search faster and arranged emails in a threaded conversation style.

Facebook reminisces with you on 10th anniversary

Facebook will be marking its 10^th anniversary tomorrow, February 4, and the social network hopes to share the milestone with you. The company is introducing “A Look Back” feature that will go live tomorrow. It shows you a personalized collection of photos or clips of the biggest moments you’ve had since you joined the site.

At the moment, there are over 1.2 billion monthly active users on the site with 19 million users from Canadians monthly and 14 million daily. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement that he the community continues to grow and develop in the coming years: “It's been amazing to see how people have used Facebook to build a real community and help each other in so many ways. In the next decade, we have the opportunity and responsibility to connect everyone and to keep serving the community as best we can.”