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Offering enhanced security, online payment service portal, PayPal, announced, on Wednesday, the launch of its expanded Seller Protection policy for merchants in Asia Pacific. The policy, which will become operational on Oct 11, 2013, helps protect merchants from fraudulent online transaction and cases where items are not received by buyers.

Data released based on a Freedom of Information request disclosed that over 300,000 attempts were made in 2012 from the British Parliament, particularly the House of Commons, to access pornographic Web sites.

Amid widespread speculation among Filipinos that detained pork barrel scam queen Janet Lim-Napoles is laying the groundwork for hospital detention with her recent bouts of hypertension and anxiety attack, her lawyer, Lorna Kapunan, assured that her client won't join the notorious St Luke's gang.

Kim Dotcom seems to have a few more surprises up his sleeves. After his tweet about plans to launch a political party in New Zealand - a leak which he attributed to “whistleblower”- picked up storm, it is now known that he quit as director of Mega, the cloud hosting service that he launched with much fanfare in Jan 2013, after his previous file sharing venture Megaupload was shut down in a U.S. driven operation, following allegations of mass copyright infringement and money laundering.

Controversial Internet entrepreneur, founder of Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, has announced plans to launch a new political party in New Zealand. Tweeting that it was in early stages of formation, he said the new party will contest elections next year in New Zealand.

LinkedIn filed for a secondary offering of $1 billion to boost the US-based social media company’s funding for acquisitions and international expansion.

Facebook’s proposal to change its privacy policy yet again has prompted netizens to rethink the kind of information they share, how they share it, and with whom on the social media site. The company has often been criticised for changing the site’s privacy options without first consulting with users.

When it comes to three dimensional effects, the most common ones are found in forms of photos or videos. But what if suddenly the concept of Skype 3D can be tapped by everyone these days?

The departure of Alex Macgillivray, Twitter’s top legal executive and staunch defender of free speech on the Internet, has led industry analysts to ask how the reshuffling of Twitter’s legal team will affect the microblogging site’s stance on data privacy.

Facebook’s move to give government agencies and, soon, advertisers, free rein over the personal information of network users has reignited the debate on privacy in the social media sphere.

Taking a step towards opening its Australia office, social media giant, Twitter is reported to have recruited former Google Australia display advertising head, Karen Stocks as local country head. The move has a strong commercial motive but will also help closer engagement with authorities.

In a series of high-profile attacks on media websites, the latest is The New York Times website.

According to media reports, Vodafone will put an end to its Network 3. Disconnecting the network translates into a stoppage of service for customers on the network. They will not be able to browse the net using their Vodafone number unless they move to another service provider within six months. The same holds true for receiving calls, texts or sending text messages.

This early, political pundits in the Philippines are predicting that Janet Lim-Napoles, the alleged mastermind of the P10-billion pork barrel scam, will join the Wheelchair Club of the Philippines. The more prominent members of the group are former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and ex-Chief Justice Renato Corona.

Pope Francis made on Saturday the most significant appointment in the Roman Catholic Church since he became pontiff in March 2013. However, the appointment of Archbishop Pietro Parolin as new Vatican Secretary of State was upstaged by the publication of the papal selfie.

Questions over the manner of the surrender of Philippine Pork Barrel Scam Queen Janet Lim-Napoles overshadowed the businesswoman ending her short fugitive days.

Google+ application for Android has a new update rolling today with bug fixes and auto-awesome Notification to be introduced.

It is said that Yahoo finally managed to beat Google for the first time in visitor's number. According to the latest numbers released on Monday by Internet analytics firm ComScore, Yahoo is the top US web property when it comes to the number of unique visitors in July, beating out long time rival Google.

From the physical terrain to the virtual domain, references to places spell the difference between territories. This became apparent when a reference to Israel on Google maps prompted hackers to redirect Google Palestine's homepage to an anti-Israel website.

It pays to be the oldest member of Facebook, 105-year-old Edythe Kirchmaier found out recently. She was gifted with a new car by an anonymous FB member who wanted her to be able to attend her charity commitments.

A Syrian hacker group has claimed responsibility for disrupting and halting U.S. based websites, including the New York Times. This comes as no surprise after threats by United States President Barack Obama to attack Syria. News reports had mentioned that the stealth bomber was one option that the U.S. military would have taken against Syrian President Bashar al- Asaad, who had launched chemical attack on Syria’s civilians.

The world is Android-dominated and this was confirmed by a new U.S. government report but in beating the iOS platform that powers the iPhone and iPad, the Google mobile operating system is also attracting the most malware attacks.

Amid the furor created by the pork barrel scam in the Philippines and on the same week that the country was again battered by a storm that flooded parts of the country for days, the Filipino humour was not lost.

The recent episode concerning Edward Snowman and the NSA intelligence leaks offered fresh insight into employees leaking sensitive information about their companies. Now, a former employee at IBM has leaked extensive documentation about the Big Blue’s lack of expertise in an area of computing that forecasts significant growth for the future of the computer industry.

A new advertising study has suggested that Google Inc Australia's revenue will reach almost $1.74 billion as mobile search advertising on tablets and smartphones continues to remain popular. Google Australia was also pegged to become the biggest mode of advertising in the country by 2018.

Edward Snowden's exposé on the surveillance program of the US National Security Agency (NSA) has cast dark skies over the future of the American cloud computing industry, a think tank reveals.

The photo/video sharing social networking site Instagram experienced some down time this morning, causing a trending uproar among its users in its sister site, Twitter.

Twitter is set to change sports and social media as it is presently known through Twitter Amplify.

A Palestinian security expert who goes by the name of Khalil Shreateh has exposed a Facebook security flaw by posting an alert on site creator Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook page to prove the legitimacy of his bug report, after the social network giant's security team ignored his previous reports on the vulnerability.