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Katie Couric has had a long career in the land of broadcast television. Now, she taking her talents to another place that is constantly becoming filled with content - the Internet.

The German Federation of Journalists has recommended to its members that they avoid using Google and Yahoo for searches and email services, to prevent snooping by US and British intelligence.

Do you have a Yahoo! account? If so, you will have noticed some changes to the way your e-mails display. Other things are happening elsewhere too.

Yahoo! is one of the biggest and most well-known Internet companies in the world. China has the largest population. The two have now parted company.

Recently, Yahoo announced it was releasing an undisclosed number of inactive user names to be eligible for claim. Now the company has announced it has created a "watchlist" where people can pay to be notified when their favored name is available.

Yahoo! drew the most Internet traffic in the United States during July 2013, even beating out rival Google. According to the statistics presented by comScore, Yahoo! received the most unique visitors during July.

David Karp, the 27-year-old founder and CEO of the micro-blogging network Tumblr, is to receive $81 million from Yahoo to stay with the company for four years.

Sydney - The revelation of intelligence gathering operations being carried out against US citizens has started an inferno. The press is raging against PRISM. The Director of National Intelligence, meanwhile, has misread the public entirely.

It wasn't a comedy that knocked off "Fast and Furious 6" at the top of the box office heap. It was "The Purge" which purged the action flick.

The battle for the semantic web has just got started and already it's heating up as billion-dollar deals lock more and more data into specific companies.