- Instagram's zero to $1 billion valuation within 19 months [Infographic] Instagram has always been a stand-out app ever since it first launched on the iPhone in October 2010. Some 19 months later, however, who'd have thought it would be acquired by Facebook for $1 billion?
- Hands on: Chrome OS gets a desktop and windows Chrome OS, Google's open-source operating system developed solely for the purpose of running web applications, has gotten its first major interface redesign since public launch in June of last year.
- How much is a single tweet or Facebook status update worth? Every time you tweet, post a Facebook status update or pin something on Pinterest, you help contribute to that respective company's revenue. But just how much? Is it possible to express, in terms of revenue, the value of a single tweet, for example?
- Wikipedia updates mobile apps, ditches Google Maps Wikipedia released updates to both its Android and iOS apps earlier this week. In the process they decided, as others have, to ditch Google Maps in favour of OpenStreetMap.
- Pinterest is already fourth largest social network Pinterest may have already become the fourth largest social network in the United States despite being less than two years old. Data from both Alexa, a web statistics firm, and DoubleClick Ad Planner suggests it has.
- Amazon's video service now available on PlayStation 3 Amazon Instant Video, Amazon's version of Netflix, is now available to stream on the PS3. Previously, the video on-demand service was only available on select connected TVs, and select set-top boxes and Blu-ray players.
- Researchers create animated model of Japanese tsunami debris field A little over a year since the devastating Japanese Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, evidence of the catastrophe litters the Pacific Ocean.
- Twitter seeking to fill 12 new positions at Dublin office Twitter is continuing to hire at its European headquarters in Dublin, with 12 new positions posted to its jobs site earlier today. This brings to 15 the total number of positions currently being sought to "help build Twitter's newest office".
- GAME gets a lifeline, must "develop a digital strategy" It emerged over the weekend that Game Group, Europe's largest video games retailer, has been rescued from administration. The group has been bought by private investment partnership OpCapita - reportedly for the nominal fee of £1. Now, its new owner is strongly advised to "develop a digital strategy", and fast.
- Google Chrome's path to domination may come sooner than expected Google Chrome is continuing its path towards browser domination and is expected to overtake Internet Explorer as the world's most-used browser worldwide as earlier as May this year.