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Article | 3/05/2013 Facebook gets to keep its 'Timeline' following trademark settlement
Facebook has reached an agreement with the company Timelines Inc. to settle a trademark infringement lawsuit over the social network's use of the name...
Article | 3/05/2013 Microsoft to grow Office 365's capacity to import contacts from third-party tools
Office 365 users will increasingly be able to import contacts from external applications after the suite's initial rollout of this capability for Face...
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 Google wants Austin to keep competition going for fiberhood status
Ever since Google announced that Austin, Texas, would become the second fiber city in the U.S. last month, residents there have been given few details...
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 Digg's replacement for Google Reader due in June; might cost money
With the clock ticking down to the July 1 demise of Google Reader, Digg has promised that a beta version of its Reader alternative will launch just in...
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 Amazon Web Services launches new certification program
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched a Global Certification Program, which will allow solutions architects, systems operations administrators, and d...
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...