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• 17 May 2013

• News: Yahoo ups cool quotient with Twitter content

  Terrorist attacks. Presidential elections. Celebrity deaths. When big news breaks, we turn to Twitter for up-to-the-second updates. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer knows that, which is why the Web company struck a partnership with Twitter to display newsy tweets on the site's homepage.

• 16 May 2013

• News: iTunes 11.0.3 enhances MiniPlayer, tweaks album options

  If you were hoping that the next update to iTunes might reverse some of the drastic changes Apple made in last year's version 11, don't hold your breath. A minor update released on Thursday, iTunes 11.0.3, makes some tweaks to the program's interface, as well as applying fixes for some security issues.

• News: Microsoft responds to Larry Page remarks, but Oracle is quiet

  Microsoft has responded to a high-profile put-down by Google CEO Larry Page, but Oracle, at least for now, won't be drawn into a public fight with the executive.

• News: Google steals march on Apple in music subscription

  Google beat Apple to the music subscription service punch this week, perhaps the doing of record labels who wanted to put Apple in its place, an analyst said

• News: Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr try out social networking apps for Glass

  While Google promotes its Glass head-mounted display as a new way for people to receive and document information on the fly, several social networking companies including Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr now want a piece of the action, by offering social applications on the device.

• News: Facebook and opposition websites blocked in Equatorial Guinea

  Just a week after the Zimbabwean government said that the Internet poses a threat to stability, Equatorial Guinea has blocked access to Facebook and opposition websites in a bid to stop people from coordinating through social media.

• News: SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem

  Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's Sapphire conference in Orlando, the vendor sought to show the progress it is making in both building out HANA's capabilities as well as attracting developers and partners to HANA.

• News: NetChoice: California privacy bills are bad for Internet

  E-commerce trade group NetChoice takes aim at state legislation -- and at open access and privacy advocates -- in the newest list of bills it deems would be awful for the Internet.

• News: Swedish domain admin comes out against Piratebay.se seizure

  Swedish top-level domain administrator .SE has to its surprise become directly involved in the local Prosecution Authority's court case to seize thepiratebay.se and piratebay.se, but it hopes to explain to the court that forcing domain names off the Internet does not help.

• News: Google takes Quick Action on Gmail

  In the middle of its annual developers conference, the Google unveiled updates to its popular Gmail service.

• News: TechnoPlanet Productions extends reach into Australia

  International channel marketing and communications company, TechnoPlanet Productions, is expanding its reach into Australia, aiming to help Australian resellers build their businesses.

• News: Hands on with Hangouts, Google's swipe at Facebook

  Let's cut to the chase: Google's new Hangouts app is an over-the-top mobile messaging service in the vein of Whatsapp, Kik, and Facebook Messenger. Google is not reinventing the wheel here. But unlike its competitors, Hangouts offers group video chats. Therein lies the appeal.

• News: German online copyright law to take effect in August

  A German online copyright law that will give publishers the exclusive right to the commercial use of their publications on the Internet will come into effect on Aug. 1.

• News: Copyright owners denied class status in YouTube suit

  A federal court in New York has denied class certification to copyright owners in an infringement lawsuit against YouTube over unauthorized hosting of content, stating that copyright claims have only superficial similarities.

• News: Google Wallet makes payments possible through Gmail

  Google is integrating Gmail with Google Wallet so that users can send payments as a mail attachment, even if the recipient doesn't have a Gmail address.

• News: Mt. Gox accused of violating US money transfer regulations

  The seizure of funds of the largest bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, was triggered by an alleged failure of the company to comply with U.S. financial regulations, according to a federal court document.

• News: Australia lags Mongolia in Internet speeds

  Mongolia has outranked Australia in Internet speeds according to Ookla's Net Index, which is based on Speedtest.net results.

• 15 May 2013

• News: Google to boost speed, cut data use on mobile devices

  Google has shown off new features that can reduce data consumption and improve Web performance on Android-powered mobile devices, drawing partly from capabilities already supported in the Chrome desktop OS.

• News: Google launches All Access subscription music service

  Step aside, Spotify, there's a new streaming music game in town.

• News: Google knocks Facebook down a peg with Google+ overhaul

  Google has struggled to win over Facebook users--and really, nearly everyone--with its social network, Google+. A completely redesigned Google+ launched on Wednesday at Google I/O with features that could make Google+ a more fierce Facebook competitor.

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