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US Federal Trade Commission reviewing Twitter Reuters 07/01/2011 | California taxes internet sales; Amazon ends deal with 25,000 CA websitesJan Norman Orange County Register 07/01/2011 |
 The Federal Trade Commission is reviewing social networking company Twitter and its dealings with at least one company that makes software designed to interact with the service, according to media reports. |  Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law California's tax on Internet sales through affiliate advertising which will immediately cut small-business website revenue 20% to 30%, experts say. |
Google Loses Bid to Dismiss Street View Suit Over Privacy-Violation ClaimsJoel Rosenblatt Bloomberg.com 07/01/2011 | Apple retail to invade Hong Kong with massive two-story flagship shopKatie Marsal Apple Insider 06/25/2011 |
 Google Inc. must face a lawsuit claiming its data collection using Wi-Fi networks for its Street View program, which allows users see photographs of roadsides, violates wiretapping laws, a judge said. |  Apple plans to make a big splash this fall with its first retail store in Hong Kong, a sprawling, double-decker outlet that will serve as the latest anchor shop at the high-profile International Finance Center (IFC) Mall. |
Hacker admits stealing personal info on iPad owners The Smoking Gun 06/24/2011 | Google’s Page, Schmidt May Be Subpoenaed by Senate Antitrust ProbersSara Forden Bloomberg.com 06/24/2011 |
 A California man today pleaded guilty to federal charges for participating in a “brute force” hack on AT&T that yielded the personal data of 120,000 iPad owners. |  Google Inc. (GOOG)’s reluctance to provide a top executive for testimony to a Senate panel probing its market power has prompted threats of subpoenas for Chief Executive Officer Larry Page and Chairman Eric Schmidt. |
BlackBerry PlayBook to be Available in Hong Kong in Early July Research In Motion ( RIM ) 06/23/2011 | The Social Network's Aaron Sorkin quits FacebookCatherine Shoard The Guardian 06/23/2011 |
 Research In Motion ( RIM ) ( NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM ) today announced plans to launch its much-anticipated BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet in Hong Kong. The BlackBerry PlayBook is scheduled to be released in early July through authorized carrier partners and retail channels in Hong Kong. |  Aaron Sorkin, who won an Oscar in February for his screenplay for Facebook drama The Social Network, has quit Facebook, it was revealed today. |
Google Notches One Billion Unique Visitors Per MonthAmir Efrati The Wall Street Journal 06/23/2011 | Israel asks Apple to remove intifada phone app Reuters 06/22/2011 |
 Google’s websites had more than a billion unique visitors in May, the first time an Internet company has hit that benchmark, according to comScore data released Tuesday. |  An Israeli minister has asked Apple Inc (AAPL.O) to remove an Arabic-language application from its iTunes store that calls for a Palestinian uprising. |
Indian police halt Google 'Street View' project Breitbart.com 06/22/2011 | 5-Star Broadband Service for 5-Star InterContinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong City Telecom (H.K.) Limited 06/21/2011 |
 Indian police said Tuesday they had ordered Google to stop taking photos of the city of Bangalore for its Street View product because of fears the images could be used by militants. |  Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited ("HKBN", a wholly-owned subsidiary of City Telecom (HK) Limited is pleased to announce that the InterContinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong has upgraded to our Fibre-based 1Gbps service, i.e. a leading 5-Star Broadband Service for a leading 5-Star Hotel. |
Facebook Contempt Juror Jailed For Eight Months SKY News 06/18/2011 | US National Security Agency allies with Internet carriers to thwart cyber attacks against defense firmsEllen Nakashima The Washington Post 06/18/2011 |
 The first juror to be prosecuted for contempt of court for using the internet has been jailed for eight months, after her online activities led to a retrial in a multi-million pound drugs case. |  The National Security Agency is working with Internet service providers to deploy a new generation of tools to scan e-mail and other digital traffic with the goal of thwarting cyberattacks against defense firms by foreign adversaries, senior defense and industry officials say. |
Group Claims Responsibility for Hacking CIA Website Politico.com 06/16/2011 | Google denies special advertising deal for Barack Obama Politico.com 06/16/2011 |
 LulzSec claimed responsibility for disabling the CIA’s public website Wednesday, the latest in a string of apparent intrusions by the hacker group. |  Google denied Wednesday that it gave President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign special access to a new advertising program, something a sales representative from the search and advertising giant had claimed in an email to customers. |
Revealed: How Citigroup hackers broke in 'through the front door' using bank's websiteLee Moran Daily Mail 06/15/2011 | 2nd lesbian blogger revealed as man Yahoo! News 06/14/2011 |
 Hackers who stole the personal details of more than 200,000 Citigroup customers 'broke in through the front door' using an extremely simple technique. |  The hoax involving the true identity of a Syrian lesbian blogger has taken another turn, as another man has acknowledged he is behind a lesbian blog that republished vivid accounts of revolt in Damascus. |
Facebook loses 1.5 million users in Canada Globalnews.ca 06/14/2011 | |
 Is Facebook’s reign as the king of social networking coming to an end? Facebook, known for its meteoric rise in popularity, lost 1.5 million users in Canada in May. Facebook also reported a loss of approximately 6 million users in the United States in the same month. | |
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