In what apparently is part of Twitter's strategic move to expand its business around the world, the popular micro-blogging site said in a Thursday announcement that it has refined its technology so as to selectively `censor' messages on a country-by-country basis, rather than on a global basis.

In the latest developments in the copyright infringement case against the popular Megaupload. com file-sharing website, the site's German founder Kim Dotcom, 38, has been denied bail by a New Zealand judge; and it has been confirmed by an unnamed US official that a fifth suspect has been arrested in the Netherlands.

With peer-to-peer sharing site The Pirate Bay having recently set up a new page which hosts Test Drive the Public Cloud for $1, users will be able to download digital 3D mock-up files and print them out on a 3D printer.

In what came as a disquieting surprise for most investors, Internet search giant Google Thursday reported weaker-than-projected results for the 2011 fourth quarter, largely due to lower advertising prices and the debt woes that hit Europe.

In what apparently was a retaliatory move against the Monday attack on the Tel Aviv stock exchange website and Israeli airline El Al's website by Saudi hackers, an Israeli hacking group took down the websites of the stock exchanges in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday.

According to theverge. com report, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) debate has put domain registrar GoDaddy in the thick of trouble over domain transfers, with the company facing accusations that it had, during the past few days, deliberately blocked domain transfers as it had embarked on its supposed SOPA opposition.

Online sales jumped 16.4 per cent on Christmas Day this year over the same day last year, with the iPad emerging as the leading mobile device for purchases, online retail figure compiled by IBM revealed.