Reuters – Internet companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook are increasingly co-opted for surveillance work as the information they gather proves irresistible to law enforcement agencies, Web experts said this week.

Reuters – Jack Ma, the founder and CEO of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, is keen on buying Yahoo Inc if the opportunity presents itself and has held discussions with other potential buyers about options.

Reuters – Verizon Communications Inc on Friday asked a federal appeals court to block the Federal Communications Commission from imposing new rules on how Internet service providers manage their networks.

Appolicious – It turns out the iTunes App Store might be a little more like the Android Market than previously believed, at least in terms of the fact that many game developers struggle with exposure, while a small group rakes in a lot of revenue.

Reuters – Internet companies such as Google, Twitter and Facebook are increasingly co-opted for surveillance work as the information they gather proves irresistible to law enforcement agencies, Web experts said this week.

Appolicious – Question-and-answer community website Quora has finally come to the iTunes App Store with an app that taps you in to experts, community members and anyone else who can dish out information when you need a question answered. Read about it below, and then get some more specific answers from Chefs Feed, an app that gets restaurant recommendations from actual chefs, rather than just other users. …

Reuters – With online business increasingly driving economic growth, developing nations’ top priority should be the infrastructure their citizens need to get connected, delegates at an Internet conference in Nairobi said this week.

September 30, 2011 — After demoing its iPad data center orchestration app CloudGenie at VMworld 2011 in August, Cloupia launched Open Automation for Clouds this week, a beta extension of its existing cloud automation and management solution Cloupia Unified Infrastructure Controller, that allows customers and partners to customize the solution with their own modules.