The much-criticised Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act have both been officially postponed, following high-profile protests from a number of websites including Wikipedia and Google.
Of the 379.4m Europeans who went online in November 2011, nearly half (47.8%) visited at least one newspaper site,, with a considerable number visiting the top 5 newspaper sites preceded by a visit to Facebook, according to new research.
Google increased turnover by 27% in the final quarter of 2011 to $10.6bn and net profits lifted by 6.4% to $2.7bn, but this was not enough to its share price tumbling 10% as the results fell short of investor expectations.
Hacker group Anonymous struck down government and industry Web sites this week, in what they claim was their biggest operation yet.
Wikipedia’s 24 hour blackout to protest new anti-piracy bill in the US has been hailed a success by its founders.
Google and News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch have become embroiled in a war of words after the media tycoon accused the internet giant of being a ‘piracy leader’.
YouTube attracted 606m visitors in the UK in December, one in four visits to social networks and gaining ground on market leader facebook in the process, according to new research.
The head of a consumer online privacy watchdog says US regulators should look into Google’s new personalised search to see whether there are antitrust or privacy issues.
Microsoft’s Bing search engine now ranks second behind Google in the Internet’s most lucrative market, according to new figures.
The relationship between former search partners Twitter and Google has become more frosty this week, with the two web giants locked in a war of words over the increasingly important role of social search.