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France to investigate Skype over telecom operator status

The French telecoms regulator ARCEP said it had asked prosecutors to investigate Microsoft Corp's Skype for failing to register as a telecom operator.

Pinterest offers new tool, lays base for money-making features

Online scrapbook Pinterest is rolling out new tools that will show businesses the number of visitors it delivers to their websites, part of the fast-growing start-up's efforts to forge closer ties to companies and build a base for the introduction of money-making features.

YouTube to launch Spotify-like music streaming service

YouTube is reportedly planning to launch a music streaming service to rival Spotify later this year.

Microsoft's Yammer adds translation functions

Microsoft said Thursday its Yammer social network for internal corporate communications would add message translation capabilities to help firms with multilingual operations.

Now, new service that delivers your 'snail mail' like email

An Austin-based startup Outbox has no made it easy to digitize all of your physical mails and deliver them to you electronically.

Pirate Bay sails to North Korea?

After Google chairman Eric Schmidt and former NBA star Dennis Rodman, the notorious file-sharing site The Pirate Bay is claiming to be the latest unexpected visitor to Stalinist North Korea.

Instagram hits 100 million users

Photo editing and sharing service Instagram reached 100 million monthly active users on Tuesday, despite many threatening to leave the site after a change of the service agreement in December.

Mega now has 3 million users

According to a tweet by founder Kim Dotcom, Mega, the online file storage and sharing service, now has over three million users one month after its launch.

NBC says its website is safe after security scare

US media company NBC Universal said late on Thursday that its NBC.com website was safe to visit following a security scare prompted by reports that it was infected with malicious software designed for banking fraud and cyber espionage.

Microsoft email better, not revolutionary

Longtime users of Hotmail, MSN and other Microsoft email services will start noticing a big change: When they sign in to check messages, they'll be sent to a new service called Outlook.com.

Google has cut Gmail spam by 99.7% since 2011

Google claims that less than 1 percent of spam messages make it into Gmail users' inboxes and that over the last two years, improvements to its security systems have taken the fight to the spammers, but notes that users also need to improve their own approaches to online security by adopting two-factor verification.

Gmail releases new 'Mailbox' app

A new application for Gmail will attempt to fix any problem with the emails of users by encouraging them to get their inbox down to zero.

Microsoft's Outlook takes aim at Google's Gmail

Microsoft is so confident it has the Internet's best email service that it's about to spend at least $30 million to send its message across the U.S.

Skype users can now send recorded clips

Skype has launched a new video messaging service allowing users to send recorded clips of their conversations to their contacts.

'Cloud Girlfriend' helping boys bag girlfriends for $5

The site, Cloud Girlfriend, is promising users the ability to create their 'perfect girlfriend', who will post messages on their wall, giving the impression that they are in a long distance relationship.

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Review: Toshiba Kirabook

Last year, Apple added a visually stunning option to its MacBooks: screens with ultra-high resolution. These "Retina" displays reveal four times as much detail as any Windows laptop screen until now. Toshiba just released a new laptop line with a Retina-level display.

Google to add Galapagos Islands to Street View

Google has followed in the footsteps of Charles Darwin to gather images of the beauty and biological diversity of the Galapagos Islands for the Internet titan's online maps.

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How Flipkart broke India's online shopping inertia
It was meant to be a portal that compared different e-commerce websites, only there weren't enough of them in the first place to be compared. Thus was born Flipkart, making sure that online shopping would never be the same again in India.
Sonic video games coming to Nintendo
Sega says it will exclusively release the next three games starring the popular blue critter on Nintendo platforms. The first title will be called Sonic Lost World and is set for release on the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS later in 2013.
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