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YouTube plans to launch paid subscriptions If the rumours are true, according to a report in AdAge, the Google owned website is asking media companies with large YouTube followings— like Machinima, Maker Studios and Fullscreen — to submit ideas for paid channels that would cost “somewhere between $1 and $5 a month.” YouTube could expand this to pay-per-view for live events, such as concerts [...]

Microsoft  has today released Office 365 Home Premium, bringing the traditional Office suite — Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote, Publisher and Access  – plus 20 GB of SkyDrive storage and 60 minutes of Skype-out calling per month. The whole package kicks off at US $99 a year, with a Office 365 University version that includes the same for only US $ 79 over four years. There’s [...]

Gangnam Style, the most-watched YouTube video ever, with more than one billion views, by K-pop sensation Psy has generated $8 million revenue on YouTube alone, said Google chief business officer Nikesh Arora during the company’s fourth quarter earnings call. Considering that Gangnam style has  1.23 billion views on YouTube, that means the video is generating on average 0.65 cents every time someone [...]

Five ex-employees of Apple, Google, and Intel are suing those companies, accusing them of an illegal conspiracy to eliminate competition for each other’s employees and drive down wages.” according to the Telegraph. To solidify their case, the plaintiffs  have cited internal emails between these executives, including some from Steve Jobs to the heads of companies caught trying to hire [...]

Twitter has improved embedded tweets by adding a couple of new features,  embedded tweet boxes have been redesigned to enhance readability, and to display more context  like retweet and favorite counts.   “Embedded Tweets make it easy for publishers and developers to use Tweets in their content, and today we’re excited to share a number of updates that make the product better and easier [...]

To address reports of declining Instagrammers  due to the privacy policy changes started, Instagram has announced 90 million users are now active on the mobile photo sharing service per month. This is the first time that official numbers were released  after being acquired by Facebook last year. According to AllThingD, these numbers show a significant growth for the Facebook owned company, given [...]

Facebook’s highly anticipated and discussed press event on Tuesday saw Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, announce Graph Search, its latest product.The new search tools that will let Facebook’s  1 billion users search the social network for information about people, photos, places and other interests. “Web search is designed to take any open-ended query and give you links that might have [...]

A major security vulnerability has been discovered in Java 7 security making billions of computers susceptible to a serious flaw. The threat is serious enough that the US Department of Homeland Security has warned users to disable or uninstall Java software on their computers, ZDNet informs. The zero-day flaw affects not only the Java 7 plug-in, but all versions of the java plugin for web browsers. [...]

Mozilla has released Firefox 18 for desktop client with an update to its Android app. The update for the desktop client, announced on Tuesday  includes Firefox’s new JavaScript compiler ionMonkey which “makes Web apps and games perform up to 25 percent faster”. Firefox made the announcement through a Blog post : Firefox also supports high-resolution Retina Display for Mac users to [...]

Federal Trade Commission  has announced on Thursday that it has reached a settlement agreement with Google, bringing the FTC’s antitrust investigations against to a conclusion. “The changes Google has agreed to make will ensure that consumers continue to reap the benefits of competition in the online marketplace and in the market for innovative wireless devices they enjoy,” said FTC Chairman [...]