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Yahoo on Tuesday (ET) announced its fourth quarter results of 2011. The company revenue dropped 13 percent compared to the same period last year. Yahoo reported $1,324 million in GAAP revenue for the fourth quarter 2011 – while cost increased by 10 percent. The company recently appointed former PayPal president Scott Thompson as the company’s new CEO and after...

Google, within a month’s period, is gearing up to change its current privacy policy – merging its all 60 different product policies into one, resulting into a one single big product. Once you opt-in you can’t stop using all Google products. These changes will take effect on March 1, the company stated in its blog post. Google is primarily known pretty well...

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was denied bail on Wednesday. A New Zealand judge ordered the founder of online sharing site Megaupload.com to be held in custody for another whole month – mentioning that the suspected internet pirate posed a high flight risk. Dotcom was remanded in custody till February 22. U.S. accused the site of copyright infringement with the...

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...

Google+, so far, asked users to select the name they commonly use in real life – trying to make online sharing more like real world sharing. Google+ with a new move will allow users to bring their nicknames, pseudonyms, and other identities onto the social network. As per Bradley Horowitz, VP Product at Google+, Google+ post said that, “When we analyze the set...

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...

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...

Google seems to have some major changes in its account creation process. Earlier, for creating a new account with Google – it only requires an email address. But from now onwards you are required to create both a Gmail account as well as having a presence on Google+. If you try to create a new Google account from Google’s homepage, you’ll surely notice that...

Google and its six products – Picnik, Sky Map, Urchin, Needlebase, Google Message Continuity, and the Social Graph API are all headed for the deadpool, open source or absorption into more central divisions. The company made the announcement through the Google official blog. Needlebase: Google acquired the product from ITA Software, a data management platform. The company is retiring the platform and is being evaluated for integration into Google’s other data-related initiatives. Google Sky Map: The app was created to show off the...