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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."

Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer continued to lose users in December as Google Chrome snatched market share to grow to a record high 19.1% market share

Google gave its Google Doodle fans a one-two punch by posting two doodles to ring in 2012. On the last day of 2011, Google had a Doodle representing the ways people celebrate the incoming New Year. The last Doodle of 2011 had the letters of Google decked out with hats and streamers for the New Year's Eve party with 2012 emblazoned in the middle 'g' letter. Users who clicked on the Doodle were taken to a page that showed the search results of the term "Happy New Year". This marked ...

As reports indicated that U.S.-based shoppers have splurged tens of billions in online shopping during the busiest weeks of the holiday season, Amazon reported on Thursday that its best-selling products, both the original Kindle and Kindle Fire, sold more than one million apiece.

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, Australians have been saving at a record-high rate, to the detriment of the country's retail industry. For the September quarter, Aussies' ratio of net household savings to disposable income went up to 10 per cent from 9 per cent in the June quarter.

The hacktivist collective group Anonymous claims to have walked away with thousands of credit card numbers and personal information from the high-profile clients of analytical intelligence agency Stratfor.

YouTube launched Tuesday a new game wherein viewers and visitors can vote to pick which of two video clips pitted against each other weekly is more impressive, funnier, cuter or weirder.

A lawsuit filed by a mobile phone company against one of its former employees could make clearer the blurry lines on the use of social networking sites by employees for work.

Smartphones and tablet computers may continue to dominate the tech world next year but the big money may be harvested from one lesser known segment of the industry - data analytics.

Service provider Adam Internet announced on Friday the roll-out in 2012 of its Business Cloud computing service in South Australia.

It looks like the whole world wanted to know what Rebecca Black's plans are for Friday night. The Internet sensation managed to top Google's Zeitgest list beating out Google's own social network site, Google Plus in the global rankings.

Google announced that their social networking site, Google+ would incorporate a new feature that would make facial recognition technology available for pictures that will be uploaded in Google+.

Facebook, the largest social networking site unveiled its latest offering which is the "subscribe" button for third party websites.

Here's another social media site that will keep you up all hours of the night: Pinterest which functions as a virtual pinboard for all your interest. The site has exploded in recent months and is now in the top ten social sites according to Experian Hitwise, which measures and analyzes consumer behavior on the Internet.

Australians who want to buy computer games could purchase these items at a lesser cost at retailer Harvey Norman. The lower cost is made possible by removing the general sales tax (GST).

The digital divide between younger and older Australian would be felt in how they would send their Christmas greetings to loved ones and friends.

Though rage comics are popularly known in Reddit.com, these comics didn’t originate from this site. Yes, it may be the home of crazy rage comics now but this madness started on a site called 4chan.com, which was the biggest online imageboard website a few years ago.

Suicide specialists claimed that suicides can be prevented. They resulted from despair and mental problems that are treatable. However, the number of people killing themselves still increase.

Google has created another awesome application to get your mood turned on for Christmas and this fun Google app is sure to surprise you this holiday season.

Apple Inc.'s iTunes Connect is taking a short holiday break between December 22-29 so developers who are planning on changing their app prices should wait until after the break or risk getting their apps unavailable for purchase.

Australians are searching for wide and various things through Google. This could be the best way to describe the 2011 “most googled” list of Australia released by the giant search engine.

For people who are used to just utilizing defaults apps in their computers, they are missing a lot because there are a lot of free apps that users could download which are extremely useful for their everyday computer-related tasks.