New York: The Huffington Post doesn't have to pay bloggers for providing content for its website in part because they knew from the start they wouldn't be paid and could have taken their work elsewhere, a federal judge ruled Friday. US District Judge John Koeltl dismissed a lawsuit that bloggers filed last year. The lawsuit against the Huffington Post and its parent company, AOL Inc., argued they were unjustly denied...
12:48 PM, Mar 31, 2012
Dubai: United Arab Emirates authorities on Sunday briefly detained a political activist who criticised one of the Gulf country's rulers on his Twitter account, a prominent Emirati blogger said. Ahmed Mansour told The Associated Press on the phone that security agents detained the activist, Mohammed Abdel-Razzaq al-Siddiq, before dawn Sunday. He was taken from his home in the emirate of Sharjah and released on bail later Sunday, Mansour said. The...
09:41 AM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: In the face of ongoing pressure from different governments on Google to censor content on the many services that the search engine giant operates, Google is taking a middle path. Google's popular blogging platform Blogger has started to redirect blogs to localised domains, also known as country-code top level domain (ccTLD). This means that if you are accessing a blog hosted on Google's Blogger service, it will redirect...
04:05 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Beijing: China will expand real-name registration for microblog users, the government's propaganda and information arm said on Wednesday, in its latest step to better control China's wildly popular Twitter-like websites. Officials acknowledge that microblogs are useful as an outlet for critical public opinion, but have repeatedly accused them of spreading what they call unfounded rumors and vulgarities. They have issued warnings that online content must be acceptable to the ruling...
01:33 PM, Jan 18, 2012
Cairo: Egyptian authorities released a prominent blogger detained on charges of inciting violence against the armed forces, a court source said on Sunday, adding that prosecutors were still investigating his case. Military prosecutors detained Alaa Abd El Fattah in October after deadly clashes broke out between the Army and demonstrators in central Cairo. The detention has outraged activists who saw it as part of a broader crackdown. Pressure has been...
11:55 AM, Dec 26, 2011
Amman: Syrian authorities arrested a blogger on Sunday who was travelling to Jordan to attend a conference on freedom of the press in the region, her friends said. Razan Ghazzawi, 30, is the latest among scores of bloggers and journalists arrested since the break out of street protests against President Bashar al-Assad. "She was arrested as she presented her passport to immigration at the Syrian border post of Nassib to...
09:29 AM, Dec 05, 2011
Cairo: Thousands of Egyptians protested on Monday in Tahrir Square, the epicentre of an uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak this year, after a prominent activist was detained by military prosecutors. The military detained Alaa Abd El Fattah on Sunday, a high-profile blogger whose arrest by Mubarak's security forces in 2006 led to a big campaign to release him. Abd El Fattah refused to be questioned by military prosecutors over...
02:54 AM, Nov 01, 2011
New Delhi: Many Google users have reported receiving a 502 error while trying to access any Google service. Google products which seem to have been affected include Google.com, YouTube, Gmail, Google Talk and Blogger. Tweets from users reporting the error seem to indicate that it is users from India who are facing a problem. There is still no word from Google on its official communication channels regarding the glitch. "502....
01:37 PM, Oct 19, 2011
Milan: Fashion bloggers will help propel online sales of designer clothes, jewels and luxury cars to more than 11 billion euros ($15 billion) in 2015, a research report said on Thursday. The exclusive fashion world has embraced the Internet later than other industries but is catching up quickly. Brands such as Burberry, Tiffany and Gucci are increasing exposure to social media to connect with a new generation born when mobiles...
03:36 PM, Sep 16, 2011
New Delhi: Google is rebranding Blogger and Picasa in a move to push its newly launched social media product Google+, reports Mashable. The move is said to be a part of Google initiative to unify its brands under the Google branding ahead of the public launch of Google+ in late July. Google's popular blogging platform is expected to be rebranded as Google Blog and the photo sharing service will be...
02:39 PM, Jul 06, 2011
Toronto: A Canadian blogger's moving last message of love and hope published after he died from colon cancer last week has drawn millions of hits from people everywhere inspired by his grace. Derek Miller, 41, ends it with a declaration to his wife of 16 years: "I don't know what we'd have been like without each other, but I think the world would be a poorer place. I loved you...
01:29 PM, May 10, 2011
New York: The Huffington Post unfairly pocketed more than $100 million from its unpaid bloggers when AOL Inc bought it in February, a lawsuit against the influential news website said on Tuesday. The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court, comes two months after Arianna Huffington, co-founder of the website, sold it to AOL for $315 million. Of that price, at least $105 million was the estimated value of the website's...
11:09 AM, Apr 13, 2011
Beijing: Chinese blogger and activist Michael Anti wants to know why he is less worthy of a Facebook account than company founder Mark Zuckerberg's dog. Anti, a popular online commentator whose legal name is Zhao Jing, said in an interview Tuesday that his Facebook account was suddenly canceled in January. Company officials told him by e-mail that Facebook has a strict policy against pseudonyms and that he must use the...
10:02 PM, Mar 09, 2011
CNN-IBN's Amrita Tripathi catches up with the official blogger of the 53rd Grammy Awards Arjan Timmermans. ...
12:18 PM, Feb 14, 2011
New Delhi: Blogs with the domain name blogspot.com have been reported as inaccessible by users of certain internet service providers (ISPs) in India. Though other blogs powered by Google's Blogger service, but having their own domain names are accessible. The block seems to be currently limited to only a few ISPs, with many users on other ISPs still being able to access blogspot.com freely. Airtel has denied any blocking on...
05:54 PM, Feb 12, 2011
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