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Risky behavior starts young on web—survey

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Australian children are accessing social media websites at an increasingly younger age, a new survey suggests, with one in five “tweens” admitting they have chatted to someone online they do not know.

Posted: May 22nd, 2013 in Internet,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Yahoo! vows not to ruin Tumblr after $1.1B takeover

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Marissa Mayer has made her boldest move to date as chief of Yahoo! with the billion-dollar purchase of Tumblr, a popular blogging platform she vowed not to ruin after protests from youthful users.

Posted: May 21st, 2013 in Headlines,Internet,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Yahoo! confirms Tumblr deal for $1.1B

A news headline about the Tumblr sale to Yahoo scrolls on a building in New York's Times Square, Monday, May 20, 2013. Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an Internet icon that had fallen behind the times.  AP PHOTO/RICHARD DREW

Yahoo! announced Monday it would acquire blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion, saying the two companies “share a vision to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas.”

Posted: May 21st, 2013 in Headlines,Internet,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Yahoo! to buy blog-maker Tumblr for $1.1B—report

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Yahoo!’s board has approved a deal to purchase the popular blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

Posted: May 20th, 2013 in Apps and Softwares,Headlines,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

‘Hatchet hitchhiker’ arrested in US murder

CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME - In this undated photo downloaded from the Union County Prosecutor’s website, Caleb “Kai’ Lawrence McGillvary is shown. McGillvary, 24, is being sought by New Jersey authorities on a murder warrant in the beating death of a New Jersey lawyer he befriended in New York’s Times Square. The homeless hitchhiker had previously gained Internet and TV celebrity status by using a hatchet to intervene in an attack in California on a utility worker on Feb. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Union County Prosecutor’s Office)

Life on the run for the Internet sensation known as “Kai the Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker” ended when he asked for a cup of coffee. A Starbucks employee was credited Friday with recognizing 24-year-old Caleb “Kai” McGillvary, wanted in the beating death of a man nearly three times his age.

Posted: May 18th, 2013 in Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Facebook and Twitter jump on Google glasses

Google Glass team members wear Google Glasses at a booth at Google I/O 2013 in San Francisco, Wednesday, May 15, 2013.  AP PHOTO/JEFF CHIU

Facebook and Twitter launched applications Thursday for Google glasses as developers rushed to learn more about tailoring software for the Internet-linked eyewear yet to hit the market.

Posted: May 17th, 2013 in Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Musicians find fame and fortune at YouTube

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YouTube is proving to be a powerful launch pad for a new generation of Internet-savvy music stars from Psy to Macklemore and beyond.

Posted: May 6th, 2013 in Internet,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

YouTube says the battle with TV is already over

Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt gestures during an interactive session with group of students at a technical university in Yangon, Myanmar in March. AP

YouTube vs. TV? YouTube says the battle — if there ever was one — is over.

Posted: May 2nd, 2013 in Headlines,Latest Technology Stories,Social Media | Read More »

20 years on, world’s first web page to be reborn

This picture taken on April 30, 2013 in Geneva shows a 1992 copy of the world's first web page. The world's first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and restored for today's Internet browsers as part of a project to celebrate 20 years of the Web. AFP

The world’s first web page will be dragged out of cyberspace and restored for today’s Internet browsers as part of a project to celebrate 20 years of the Web, organizers said on Tuesday.

Posted: May 1st, 2013 in Internet,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Dutchman arrested in Spain for ‘biggest ever’ cyberattack

Computer security specialists made this homemade drone aircraft, capable of launching airborne cyber attacks, hijacking mobile phone calls, or even delivering a dirty bomb, displays during DefCon hacker gathering at a hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, August 5. AFP

A Dutchman has been arrested in Spain in connection with last month’s unprecedented cyberattack that reportedly slowed down the Internet, the Dutch prosecution service said.

Posted: April 27th, 2013 in Internet,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Google boss sees autocrats’ pushback against Internet

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Life in authoritarian states is likely to get tougher before it gets better as their citizens gain more access to the Internet, Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt said Friday.

Posted: April 27th, 2013 in Internet,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

Multiply.com closes shop

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Social shopping site Multiply.com is shutting down business operations in May following a failed bid to reinvent itself from being a social networking site to a vibrant e-commerce destination in Southeast Asia.

Posted: April 26th, 2013 in Internet,Latest Technology Stories,Social Media | Read More »

Yahoo chairman joins recent boardroom exodus

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Yahoo could use a revolving door in its boardroom.

Posted: April 26th, 2013 in Internet,Latest Technology Stories | Read More »

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