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The criminal tendencies of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were on full display today when it was revealed the agency installed spy software and illegally hacked into the private Gmail accounts of at least half a dozen of its own top scientists.

The Kingdom of Thailand has agreed to Twitter's recent move to allow countries to censor tweets. Representatives from the Thai government of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra have said that they will be working with Twitter to implement this new policy.

Many Facebook users love the new Facebook Timeline, but a lot also hate it. However, the management doesn't care about people's comments regarding the new structure.

Megaupload users may never be able to re-access their files following the U.S. government's announcement late Monday that digital storage firms contracted by the shuttered company will begin deleting files Thursday this week.

When McDonald’s started the Twitter hashtag #McDStories, the haters came out and told stories the fast food restaurant wasn't expecting.

January 23 marked the beginning of the Chinese New Year and to celebrate the Lunar New Year of the Black Water Dragon, some websites had special homepages to mark the auspicious year.

If you like smartphone stargazing, the sky is now the limit. Google announced Friday that it has donated its popular Sky Map app to the open-source community, allowing fans of Android-based astronomy to "take the code and augment it as they wish."

Google's new search feature called Google Search Plus has garnered a lot of attention since it launched last week with critics like Twitter slamming the search giant for favoritism towards Google's social network. The new search feature is now being investigated by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, according to a source inside the U.S. regulatory body.

The increasing number of complaints brought before Fair Work Australia (FWA) has put increased pressure on employers to get their social media policies in order - and to continually update the procedures to stay aligned with current case law.

PayPal and Office Depot are reportedly testing the former's new payment method, called by experts as 'wallet in the cloud', that allows consumers with PayPal account to actually make in-store purchases, reports said.

Identifying threats to health freedom and freedom of health speech often requires connecting the dots between seemingly unrelated verbiage in one piece of legislation and a trade agreement, for instance, or reading between the lines to identify the full intent or scope of a provision or phrase added to an unrelated bill.

On January 18, 2012, thousands of websites from around the world came out in protest of two pieces of legislation that threaten to censor the internet as we know it.

Opposition against the publicised U.S. anti-piracy laws is also active in New Zealand, as Internet NZ and the Creative Freedom Foundation have joined Wikipedia in its English page blackout on Wednesday. A number of New Zealand websites are planning similar protests, Newstalk ZB reported.

Jerry Yang built-up his name by transforming a start-up tech firm into a multi-billion dollar global company, becoming the toast of the tech world in so short a time, which lasted until Yahoo's gradual and eventual decline.

Despite the media speculation about what Ricky Gervais would do as host at this year's Golden Globes, the British comedian's performance at the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's annual awards was a very sedate affair.

Issues are expected to arise after Google officially launched Search plus Your World on Tuesday.

According to recent reports, many non-adult groups like colleges, museums, and well-known groups rushed in order to purchase addresses with the ".xxx" domain. This move was brought about by the decision of these groups to prevent porn purveyors from using their specific names in the web's red light district.

Google Inc.'s new feature called "Search Plus Your World" will now integrate material from its social network, Google Plus in its Google search results. This move has sparked controversy as social network Twitter complained bitterly that this would skew search results to Google's social network.

Facebook continues to change the world, this time by making its presence felt in vehicle dashboards. Luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz announced on Tuesday the launch of a service called mbrace2 which includes online services such as Facebook, Yelp and Google.

Google's Chrome 15 is now the most popular web browser version according to a research done by StatCounter Global Stats.

From more than 500,000 apps available for downloading in the Apple App Store, there are less than 100 that sit in Apple's App Store Essentials HALL OF FAME. Part of that list is Angry Birds, Facebook, Google Earth, and Pulse News.

Yahoo Inc. finally named its new CEO on Wednesday hiring President of PayPal Scott Thompson in an effort to recharge the flagging Internet company.

Young Pirates, the youth wing of Swedish political party Pirate Party, has registered as a religion and church allowing its 3,000 members to freely practice their faith: file-sharing.

The number of apps available for downloads on Android Market reached the 400,000 milestone recently, indicating, experts said, that developers have begun regarding the Google platform equally lucrative as that of Apple's.

ETrade, ANZ Bank's online broking business, shuttered its Web site over the holidays because of an offshore cyber attack.

Thousands of Australian teenagers are unwittingly revealing their mobile and home telephone numbers online via Facebook when they thought the numbers will not be seen anywhere else.

Google is still the king of the Internet as it edged out Facebook to claim the number one spot on Nielsen's Top Ten Web Brands in 2011.

Looks like the fireworks are starting a little early in Google+.

Facebook is also a place to cry for help, particularly for those who are in need of kidney donors. Damon Brown from Seattle is only one of fortunate individuals who found a kidney on Facebook. He told his story on a special page he created under the name, "Damon Kidney."