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Dead on Facebook: Pranksters kill accounts with fake death reports
While vacationing with his wife in Cancun, Rusty Foster did something many would find inexplicable — he didn’t check his Facebook account. Not once. But when the...
Handset makers scurry to join Year of the Phablet
(Reuters) – Call it phablet, phonelet, tweener or super smartphone, but the clunky mobile phone – closer in size to a tablet than the smartphone...
EU says its Google case not affected by U.S. ruling
(Reuters) – A decision by U.S. regulators to end a probe into whether Google Inc hurt rivals by manipulating internet searches will not affect the European Union’s...
Google emerges from FTC probe relatively unscathed
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has settled a U.S. government probe into its business practices without making any major concessions on how the company runs...
Apple testing new iPhone, iOS 7: report
(Reuters) – Apple Inc has started testing a new iPhone and the next version of its iOS software, news website The Next Web reported. The...
Facebook Instagram use dived after photo fiasco: AppData
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s Instagram lost almost a quarter of its daily users a week after it rolled out and then withdrew policy changes that incensed users who feared...
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Krikorian quits Amazon board
(Reuters) – Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Blake Krikorian has quit the board of Amazon.com Inc about a year and a half after joining to...
Wikipedia’s most searched articles of the year revealed
A study of 2012’s most read Wikipedia articles reveals striking differences in what proved popular across the different language versions of the online encyclopaedia. Facebook topped...
Apple CEO’s pay takes big hit vs. record 2011 package
(Reuters) – Apple Inc CEO Tim Cook’s 2012 compensation package of $4.17 million is a huge cut on paper for the top executive of the...