Facebook To Pay $20 Million As Fine

Reports claim that ‘Sponsored Stories’ breached privacy of users, and thus has to pay $20 million fine. Although, Facebook had settled its privacy suit in 2011, it is about to pay $20 million to a class Action group that claims violation of their privacy through Sponsored Stories program. According to the terms of the settlement, Facebook will now change the …

Pakistan To Un-block YouTube After One Year Of Suspension

A year after the suspension of YouTube, Pakistan government is all set to take back the suspension and unblock YouTube as early as September, which had been blocked due to a video that deemed to insult the prophet Muhammad. Although, complete access won’t be granted to YouTube by Pakistan as the reports from the Wall Street Journal reports claim that, …

Steve Ballmer Will Be Bidding Goodbye To Microsoft

As announced by Microsoft, CEO Steve Ballmer will be retiring from his position within 12 months. The company is now seen hunting for the new CEO. Along with Bill Gates the board will take up the decision under the leadership of John Thomson. Six weeks after Microsoft formally announced that its major executive reorg. Microsoft shares are surging pre-market on …

NSA Illegally Collected Thousands Of Emails, US Admits

Court’s document shows that there were about 56,000 illegal personal e-mails by Americans annually, to National Security Agency. Officials revealed that a judge in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled the program illegal in 2011. There was a terror suspection, shows the communication between peoples having no link. These collection of illegal mails on an annual basis between 2008 and …

Judge Supports AOL In Lawsuit Over Microsoft’s $1B Patent Buy

On Monday, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought against AOL by some of its former stockholders. According to reports, the earlier stockholders alleged that some AOL executives committed scam when they bought millions of company shares before a major $1 billion patent sold to Microsoft. The U.S. District Judge Denise Cote claimed that, Complaint’s conspiracy theory is just a …