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Google Bids To End Anti-trust Investigation
Computer Business Review
Google has submitted a settlement proposal to the EU Competition Commission (CC) in a bid to end the two-year long investigation into claims that Google has been misusing its dominant position in online search market against its rivals. Google has submitted the proposal by the deadline given by the EU antitrust chief Joaqun Almunia to send a final proposal by the end of January 2013 to resolve concerns.
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Twitter Is Discovery Channel For TV
The Drum
Twitter is fast becoming a discovery channel for TV and a creative canvas for advertisers, according to the social network's UK director Bruce Daisley. Speaking at Twitter's Powered By Tweets event for the creative industry in London, Daisley said information is traveling further and faster on the social network with 1 billion tweets sent every 2.5 days. "We have gone from being about transmitting short bursts of information to becoming the pulse of the planet," he said.
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BBC's Tech Writer Among Tweeters Hacked
The Independent
In a blog post, staff at the micro-blogging website said that it interrupted attempts to access user data, and that attackers stole 250,000 users' login names, email addresses and encrypted passwords. One of those users was Rory Cellan-Jones, a journalist who covers technology for the BBC. The attack follows other high-profile hacking attacks, inlcluding China-based hackers' inflitrating computer systems at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and Anonymous's hijack of the US Sentencing Commission's website.
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Google To Help French Media Improve Online
BBC
Google has agreed to create a 60m euro ($82m; GBP52m) fund to help French media organisations improve their internet operations. It follows two months of negotiations after local news sites had demanded payment for the privilege of letting the search giant display their links. The French government had threatened to tax the revenue Google made from posting ads alongside the results.
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Amazon To Be Sole Streamer Of 'Downton Abbey'
PaidContent.org
Right now, cord-cutting Downton Abbey fans have several options for streaming previous of the show: Netflix, Hulu Plus and Amazon, as well as PBS's own website for current-season episodes. Later this year, though, options will be much more limited: Amazon said Friday that by the end of 2013, Prime Instant Video will be the exclusive paid streaming service to allow access to the show.
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Birmingham Mail, HMI Debut Regional Datablog
Journalism.co.uk
The investigative journalism site Help Me Investigate (HMI) has teamed up with the Birmingham Mail to launch regional datablog, "Behind The Numbers". According to the project's home page, the initiative is mainly concerned with information regarding hospitals, schools, crime, policing, business, sports, arts and culture with data being sourced by both the newspaper and HMI.
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SendGrid Brings Its Cloud-Based Transactional Email Infrastructure to Europe
The Next Web
Cloud-based email service SendGrid has announced that it is expanding from its US hub in Boulder, Denver, San Francisco, New York and Anaheim to the UK and Germany. The company's platform is used by over 100,000 web app companies and developers including Foursquare, Pinterest, Spotify, Airbnb and Pandora, principally for transactional emails. SendGrid claims that 9 bilion emails per month are now flowing from its system.
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