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YouTube has been serving its clips of animals, planking, people falling over and monkeys in sheepskin coats for eight years. The video streaming website launched eight years ago with a single video. Bought by Google in 2006, YouTube now has more...
Facebook has confirmed that it will remove videos of people having their heads cut off. The social network is responding to an increasing outcry over the kind of content that its users upload to and Like on its servers.
Google also shared some data showing that increased viewability improves campaign performance in a blog post, Neal Mohan, Google's vice president of display advertising. Without doubt, Google is the dominant player in display simply because they...
Google will close the Meebo toolbar on June 6 and hopes that users will switch to Google+ and its single sign on. Google acquired Meebo for about $100 million last summer. The firm encouraged websites to adopt the Meebo bar when it decided that its...
Google has accepted a fine from the German data protection authority over its mistaken and unused collection of WiFi data using Google Street View cars. The €145,000 fine comes nearly three years after we first learned about the Street View WiFi...
Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube has handed Viacom yet another loss in the latest round of a copyright infringement court case that has lasted six years – so far –according to the Hollywood Reporter.
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt took some time out of his busy schedule this weekend to tell the Guardian newspaper that civilians flying spy drones over each other's houses is a bad idea. We shrugged in confusion too.
Google is the subject of yet another anti-competitiveness complaint, this one from Streetmap. Streetmap used to do a lot of business back in the 2000s. It still does of course, it's just that Google Maps does more business for more people.
Twitter has been recognized by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) as an invention. Confirmation of this initially came from the Verge website and a document from the USPTO. It was also confirmed by founder Biz Stone where he tweeted...
Twitter turned 7 years old today. The social network now has 200 million active users – up from 140 million active users last year. More than 400 million of the 140-characters tweets are sent every day – up from 340 million last year.
After a long delay, Google Flight Search, its airline flight comparison service that has been available in the U.S.since September 2011, has finally arrived in Europe. The service is a bit limited. A blog post from Noam Ben Haim, senior product...
Accused by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) of promoting online sales of elephant and whale products, Google says that it moves quickly to remove material advertising ivory and products that contain it, despite what the EIA has claimed.
American Express is working with Twitter on a payment system that will let people spend money with short messages. Described as "seamless solution that redefines what's possible in the world of social commerce", Amex Sync requires that you...
Google has followed up last week's transparency report update – which revealed that government requests have risen by 70 percent over the last two years – with a little more information on how it deals with and why it responds to government data...
Google is facing some delayed legal action in the UK over having tracked iPhone and Safari users without their knowledge. Twelve plaintiffs have banded together in the UK to file a lawsuit against Google, which could open Google to damage payments...
Facebook will let its billion users send a message directly to its boss, Mark Zuckerberg, but only if you pay $100 for the privilege. Facebook called the Zuckerberg price point an "extreme" test to "see what works to filter spam.
In 2012, not only was a baby girl named Hashtag, but now the word "hashtag" has been awarded the title "word of the year" by the American Dialect Society. The hashtag, or '#', is a regular feature on Twitter and is making its way into the daily...
Google has stopped warning Chinese Internet users that some of the words they might search for could see them kicked off the Internet. Google had been offering users a warning if they searched for terms including "Freedom", and whenever someone in...
A lot of dissatisfied people looked up the words "returns policy" in association with Apple on Christmas Day. Apple's returns policy was the most popular search among all companies on the holiday, according to market research firm Experian and the...
Google has released its overview of what people in the UK concerned themselves with during the past year, and naturally it is a mixed bag. The top searches of the year were for football competition, Euro 2012, the late singer Whitney Houston...
