If the reports are to be believed, Google is overhauling it’s service to legally allow children below 13 years of age to use them.
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Twitter: Deceased individual’s photos to be removed on family members’ request
Twitter: In order to respect the wishes of loved ones, Twitter will remove imagery of deceased individuals in certain circumstances.
Twitter tests Facebook-like feed; users frustrated
Twitter intends to tread the Facebook road!
Ebay payment subsidiary in talks with bitcoin payment processors
EBay’s subsidiary payment firm Braintree is reportedly in talks with several bitcoin transaction providers in a bid to accept the digital currency in future. According to reports from the Wall Street Journal…
Google’s Classroom is now open for all Apps for Education users
Google: We’re starting to open Classroom to all Google Apps for Education users, helping teachers spend more time teaching and less time shuffling papers.
Hulkfile succumbs to broad Expendables 3 injunction
The file storage service has shuttered its services in the US and a worldwide closure will follow soon.
Twitter rolls out ‘promoted video’ advertising program
Twitter is offering the new Promoted Video program in a Cost Per View (CPV) ad buying model, which means advertisers get charged only when users play the video.
Twitter: 8.5% of 271M active users are bots
Around 23 million active users are bots that automatically contact the Twitter servers for regular updates through third party apps with no user action involved.
eBay suffers downtime; sellers ask company to cough up compensation
The latest downtime is eBay’s tenth this year and its users are none too pleased – at least the sellers.
Verisign: Worldwide domain name registrations up by 19.3M
The total number of registered domain names has hit 276 million, with over 5 million domains added just in the first quarter of 2014.
Full copy of Doctor Who season 8 episode 2 ‘Into the Dalek’ workprint leaked online
BBC has failed miserably in containing the series of leaks that has plagued Doctor Who.
Microsoft joins hands with iFixit to launch gadget repair site Pro Tech Network
Microsoft: By providing free online training for people to set up a phone, tablet or PC repair business, we hope to increase the reuse of these devices.
Court asks Facebook to disclose details of underage user
As per Facebook’s policy, no-one under the age of 13 is allowed to be a user.
China warns Baidu to ‘clean up’ porn content
Chinese officials have urged the search engine giant to “promptly delete all files in question, shut down accounts uploading such content and present a report on its clean-up effort.”
Microsoft to cull support for older IE versions in January 2016 including IE 8
IE 9 on Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2, IE 10 on Windows Server 2012, IE 11 on Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows Sever 2012 R2 are the versions that will no longer be supported by the company from 12 January 2016.