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Google to sink pirate websites in search rankings
AFP, Published on 11/08/2012
» Google on Friday said it is tweaking its search formula to give higher priority to legal content and sink rankings for websites hit with piracy complaints.
Social news site Digg rises from ashes
AFP, Published on 02/08/2012
» Digg, the once high-flying social news site, relaunched Wednesday under new ownership after a six-week rebuilding.
San Francisco sours on Apple computers
AFP, Published on 13/07/2012
» San Francisco city officials on Thursday said that they have soured on Apple computers due to the Macintosh maker's decision to bail out of a program to promote making electronics earth friendly.
Internet media firm buys faded social news site Digg
AFP, Published on 13/07/2012
» Faded social news star Digg announced Thursday that it has been bought by online media company Betaworks in a move aimed at reviving the firm's cache.
S&P: Year-old web change caused France rating error
AFP, Published on 12/11/2011
» Embarrassed ratings agency Standard & Poor's said Friday that its erroneous downgrade of France arose when an automatic email was sent out after an old web page on French banks was changed.
Google exec rejects charge search results 'cooked'
AFP, Published on 22/09/2011
» Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt rejected charges that the Internet giant has "cooked" search results to favor its own services during a grilling on Wednesday by a Senate antitrust panel.
YouTube "Town Hall" takes US political pulse
AFP, Published on 19/05/2011
» YouTube on Wednesday launched a "Town Hall" website at which US congressional leaders address issues in brief videos and viewers get to show which positions they support.
Google gets into April Fool's with 'Gmail Motion'
AFP, Published on 01/04/2011
» Google joined in the April Fool's pranks on Friday with the release of a new product called "Gmail Motion" that supposedly lets users send and receive emails using only gestures.
Bieber's 'Baby' most viewed video at YouTube
AFP, Published on 29/03/2011
» Pop star Justin Bieber's music video "Baby" has crossed 500 million views on YouTube and is the most watched ever on the video-sharing service that launched the boy music idol to fame.
Mobile sales up 32 percent last year: Gartner
AFP, Published on 10/02/2011
» Worldwide mobile sales increased 32 percent last year and smartphone shipments surpassed those of personal computers for the first time in the fourth quarter, according to tracking firms.