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Google’s video sharing website, YouTube, added another mark in its kitty with the streaming of 4 billion online videos every day – an increase of 25 percent in the past eight months. The figure includes both PC and smartphones streaming, and according to the company, 60 hours of videos gets added every minute – compared to 48 hours a minute last may. Google...

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch added more flurries through his twitter account, this time by aligning the phone hacking scandal that has swamped the UK arm of his media empire with the recent copyright debate led by the SOPA. Murdoch who joined micro-blogging website Twitter less than a month ago, already caused a huge controversy by calling Google as a ‘piracy leader’ The proposed SOPA bill has now been withdrawn by Republican Lamar Smith after the series of opposition both by internet (black-out day) and by Whitehouse. ...

Tumblr, a microblogging platform and social networking website, reached 120 million every month, founder and CEO David Karp mentioned during Digital Life Design conference in Munich. Seeing the Quantcast figures, the website gets 15 billion page views per month. Interviewed by entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky, Karp talked about the company’s initial growth, decision...

Intelligent Apps, the company behind myTaxi, the most popular taxi ordering smartphone application with 8,00,000 app-downloads and 7,000 registered taxi drivers has raised 10 million euros from car2go, a subsidiary of Daimler and KfW Bankengruppe. myTaxi has revolutionized the taxi market in less than ten months. For the first time, the customer can order a taxi...

The Walt Disney Shareholders will not see any of the late Steve Jobs’ family members or representative during the upcoming annual meeting scheduled for March to re-elect directors. The family is having the total of 7.7 percent stake or 137.3 million shares, which is the largest media company’s shareholder. Jobs had stayed on Disney’s board until he resigned...

According to a report, Nokia Siemens Network (NSN) is successful in raising more than 1.2 billion euros from a group of 14 U.S. and European banks. Actually amount the group was seeking is 1.5 billion euros, but market turmoil results in settling them to a smaller amount. The joint group needed the amount to restructure its business and pay costs of a big redundancy. As per Reuters, Nokia Siemens Network has faced aggressive pricing from rivals and an economic downturn that has even forced telecom companies to cut spending. JPMorgan,...

The takedown of Megaupload by the feds last week saw online storage service Filesonic disabling its file sharing service between its users starting from today. Banner on the company website reads, “All sharing functionality on Filesonic is now disabled. Our service can only be used to upload and retrieve files that you have uploaded personally.” Filesonic has...

With the takedown of Megaupload last week by the feds, Hacker Group Anonymous continues it strikes with shutting down CBS website for approximately 20 minutes on Sunday. Last week, online content sharing website, Megaupload was shut down by feds, resulting in a reaction from the Anonymous shut down various government agencies and big companies website. The CBS site...

Box, an online file sharing and cloud content management service, setting its 2012 sight high with adding the “federal government of U.S.” to its customer base. The company which last year grab Procter and Gamble as its one of the largest customer base for the year with helping around 18,000 users to the cloud all set to big high this year. Box CEO and co-founder...

Research in Motion on Sunday announced that Thorsten Heins as company’s new President and Chief Executive Officer. Mike Lazaridis, former Co-Chair and Co-CEO, has become Vice Chair of RIM’s Board and Chair of the Board’s new Innovation Committee. The Globe has reported that the company finally buckled to a year of pressure to replace Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, the two men who were the face of the company for decades, and who ran the company in a co-CEO system that investors had long ago declared untenable. On the transition...