In a move which marks the most significant product revamp for Yahoo ever since the CEO Marissa Mayer took over the reins of the company last year, the Yahoo website is being overhauled such that some of the familiar Facebook features - including newsfeed and people's "Likes" - will be incorporated into it.

In an indication that a lot of YouTube videos are blacked-out in Germany, Berlin-based OpenDataCity (ODC) revealed an interactive web application last month to show that nearly 61.5 percent of the top videos on Google-owned YouTube - the world's most popular video-sharing site - are apparently experiencing a blackout in the country.

In a move which underscores Iceland's efforts to become the first democratic country in the West to block online pornography, the country is reportedly considering a new law that will ban access to violent Internet porn.

With fast-food chain Burger King and Chrysler-owned automaker Jeep having reported that their Twitter accounts were hacked this week, the popular microblogging site is requesting the users to be smarter when it comes to selecting passwords for their Twitter accounts.

A short, disquieting YouTube video, which shows a toddler steering a car - supposedly on a suburban Melbourne street - has invited the ire of the police authorities who have slammed the incident, calling it an act of "absolute stupidity."

On Monday afternoon, the Twitter feed of fast-food chain Burger King was hacked - apparently by the Anonymous group of hackers - and its page was defaced with messages which said that the account had been sold to Burger King's rival, McDonald's, "because the whopper flopped."

According to a recent statement by France's privacy watchdog, the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertes (CNIL), Internet search giant's failure to respond to the recommendations which 27 EU regulators unanimously adopted last October may result in the initiation of "a coordinated repressive action" against the company before this summer.

According to a Sunday disclosure by the Internet Service Provider Association of India's (ISPAI), the rates of Internet and broadband services in India may likely undergo an increase under new licenses framework because of the high entry fee which the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has proposed.