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Article | 3/05/2013 China cracks down on Internet bird flu rumors
Chinese authorities have detained two Internet users for allegedly spreading rumors about the new bird flu virus on the nation's top Twitter-like micr...
Article | 3/05/2013 Facebook rethinks its 'hackathons' with an eye toward mobile
Facebook is retooling its famous "hackathon" all-night coding workshops to give engineers more time to conceive new products, hopefully with a focus o...
Article | 2/05/2013 Citrix adds IM to Podio enterprise collaboration software
Citrix has added instant messaging to its Podio enterprise collaboration product so that employees can engage in one-to-one and group text chats while...
Article | 2/05/2013 Airpair plays digital matchmaker between startups, developer experts
Launching a new product or business is hard. Sometimes, even computer nerds need a little tech support.
Article | 2/05/2013 P2P piracy putting pressure on Chinese video sites
After spending millions to buy licensed TV shows and movies, China's top online video site is facing a surge in piracy from a new crop of offenders th...
Article | 2/05/2013 Yahoo acquires to-do list app Astrid
Yahoo has acquired Astrid, a to-do list and personal assistant mobile app, and the developers behind it for an undisclosed sum.
Article | 1/05/2013 Is Twitter broken?
Twitter, the increasingly popular micro-blogging service, has come under quite a bit of criticism in the past few weeks. Users of the platform, which ...
Article | 1/05/2013 Facebook revenue rises 38 per cent amid continued mobile growth
Facebook posted a revenue increase of 38 percent in the first quarter that was bolstered by broad engagement across the site, the company reported.
Article | 1/05/2013 Belgian ISPs sued for providing Internet access without paying copyright levies
Sabam, the Belgian association of authors, composers and publishers, has sued the country's three biggest ISPs, saying that they should be paying copy...
Article | 1/05/2013 Report: Yahoo drops Dailymotion deal in face of French opposition
Yahoo has scrapped plans to invest in French online video site Dailymotion, after the French government opposed the Internet giant acquiring a majorit...
Article | 1/05/2013 Facebook's big data plans include warehouses, faster analytics
Facebook may treasure the data it has on its one billion-plus users for its advertising returns, but the analysis the site performs on that data is ex...
Article | 30/04/2013 Twitter opens self-service ads to everyone
Twitter is expanding its self-service advertising platform so that any business in the US can pay the site to promote its accounts and tweets.
Article | 30/04/2013 Microsoft previews Skype for Outlook.com
Microsoft is rolling out a preview version of Skype for Outlook.com, allowing users to make calls and send instant messages from within the webmail se...
Article | 30/04/2013 Alibaba invests in Sina Weibo to build links with users of the Twitter-like service
Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group has acquired an 18 percent stake in the Twitter-like Weibo service from Sina, as part of a partnership focused on...
Article | 29/04/2013 Gartner: Worldwide CRM revenue grew 12.5 per cent in 2012
Global CRM (customer relationship management) revenue grew 12.5 percent last year to US$18 billion, a rate three times that of all enterprise software...