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Xmas comes early for Twitter: More cash, users and a $3.7bn valuation
A fresh round of investment cash pushed Twitter’s market value up to US$3.7-billion dollars, with the number of people using the microblogging/lifestreaming/social networking (whatever…
US Air Force in clumsy attempt to block major news sites posting WikiLeaks
The US Air Force has blocked its workforce from visiting 25 media websites that published secret diplomatic documents released by WikiLeaks. The move meant…
Social networks can help prevent disease outbreaks, pandemics
Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter greatly help in detecting and containing the spread of pandemics, experts at a global health conference…
Mark Zuckerberg is Time magazine’s Person of the Year
2010 has been an outrageously successful year in the life of Mark Zuckerberg. The 26-year old web entrepreneur, who founded Facebook while at university,…
WikiLeaks provides ‘Napster moment’ in evolution of web
If 1999 was the Year of Napster in the history of the internet then 2010 will go down as the Year of WikiLeaks. Napster,…
Apple accused of selling pirated Japanese iBooks
Publishers in Japan demanded on Tuesday that Apple stop selling pirated digital copies of novels by Japanese authors, including Haruki Murakami‘s “1Q84”, in its…
Facebook creating ‘second internet’ in challenge to Google
Facebook is challenging Google’s supremacy on the Internet with a radically different approach to how people live, work, play and search online. While Google…
Our top 50 passwords: What the Gawker hack revealed
Global fast-food giant McDonald’s and world-famous entertainment blog, Gawker, have both admitted that hackers had helped themselves to data about people who take part…
Inventor of USB Flash Drive back to topple the SD card
Henn Tan could have ruled the global market in what became the ubiquitous USB flash drive that helped consign the floppy disk to the…
Social media shaking up the travel industry
Facebook, Twitter and a host of invite-only travel websites are fast becoming a key pipeline for well-heeled travellers as well as the budget-conscious to…
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