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Olympus, which is earlier in news as it sued its own president, Shuichi Takayama and 18 other previous and current executives over the accounting fraud to conceal their $1.7 billion in losses, which results in arrest of company’s former chairman and six others reportedly planning to promote its executive officer Hiroyuki Sasa as a president in April. Sasa worked with the company as head of development as well as marketing at subsidiary Olympus Medical Systems Corporation will be appointed on April 20 at an extraordinary shareholders...

The world’s largest micro-blogging site Twitter joined hand with Russian search engine Yandex for the real-time information sharing partnership, Reuters reports. With the new agreed “joint partnership” Yandex will now show new tweets in its search results almost at the same time, as the way Twitter becomes an increasingly important source of real-time information – Twitter with its so-called firehose give access to Yandex of all public tweets, in an agreement which is similar to the one with the Microsoft’s search engine, Bing. April...

If you remember in protest against the controversial ACTA treaty, Hacker group Anonymous hacked the Greek Ministry of Justice Site; the Greek police’s Cybercrime division has arrested an eighteen-year-old and even also identified two other teenagers it accuses of having defaced the Greek Ministry of Justice Site – even the hacker group warned the authorities...

In a second and more extensive disruption of Internet access, the Iranian faced the internet blockade again – just a week ago when from internet to intranet, email and social networking sites were blocked, raising a strong concerns about state censorship ahead of parliamentary elections – the lasted blockade will affect all the encrypted international website...

Apple in its recent moves over the Chinese factories working condition and which is named to be as an “unprecedented move,” opened up its factories and supply chain in China to a full review to ABC news – allowing them to create a report – the story will begin airing on Good Morning America, World News with Diane Sawyer, ABCNews.com, ABC News Radio and ABC...

Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) which saw a huge blackout day last month by many of the technology companies – including BoingBoing, Wikipedia, Reddit, I Can Has CheezeBurger, WordPress, Mozilla, TwitPic, Minecraft and many others. Its author again in the will to sponsor another bill named the “Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011” (H.R....

Activist fund Starboard Value LP raised its stake in AOL to 5.1% – the company is known as an American global Internet services and media company – Starboard also looking out to seek representation on the online media company’s board at the year’s annual meeting, WSJ reports. Starboard made the disclosures in a government filing on Thursday – last...

Over the course of time during the weekend, a settlement was saw according to which it gives the iPhone maker, Apple, two options for iPhone consumers in the US, that is either to pay a $15 check or a free bumper case – adding and finalizing the terms Apple has agreed to pay $15 payout over the case under settlement. The lawsuit was filed early in July 2010 against...

According to Moroccan Geeks, a Moroccan blog, Skype and all other VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) services have been blocked in the country, pointing to an article recently published on the official site of the Arabic newspaper Assabahia – while majority of the services are not blocked but as a result Skype usually finds itself targeted by both telecom providers and mobile operators – reportedly that the move has been taken in order to create a monopoly on “calling options” available in the country. Skype is a popular mode...

According to Israeli technology blog, NewsGeek, Israel’s largest bank “Bank Hapoalim” comes under cyberattack – there is no news regarding who had taken the credits for the attack – but the fingers have been pointed at Iranian hackers – Israel and Saudi hackers attacks continuing to take place since from a lot of time, it has been believed that Iranian hackers been involved in the latest attack. NewsGeek’s Editor In Chief, Yaniv Feldman believes the attack is most like in retaliation for the Stuxnet attack – the one which...