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According to the report made by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing shut down over 1.3 million websites last year alone.

The ASS says that the shutdowns resulted in a 41% decrease of the total number of Chinese website by the end of last year. However, ASS spokesman Liu Ruisheng claimed China enjoyed a "high level of freedom of online speech."

Still, the number of web pages in China increased by 79% so far.

Parents in Britain cannot obtain friendship with their children on the Facebook website, reveals a new survey. 30% of UK parents get rejected when sending Facebook “friend” requests to their children and many of them then use other people's login details in order to keep track of their kids’ activities.

Google announced an affiliate program to allow publishers promote its eBook service on their websites for a certain pay.

Google will accept publishers of a variety of websites into the program, including online retailers, blogs and book publishers.

"Starting today, we invite all interested site owners to apply to join the expanded Google eBooks affiliate program. Participating sites gain new revenue streams by giving their book-reading audiences an easy way to buy Google eBooks," wrote Pratip Banerji, product manager at the Google Books team, in a blog post.

Avast, a largest antivirus scanner, brought its apologies this week for wrongly defining most of the web as malicious. 

Last month MasterCard started quietly testing their new Developer Zone. The company explained: “Over the past few months, MasterCard developers have tested the site, the initial services, and created a few cool apps. And now, we are confident and excited to enable a small group of external developers with exclusive access to our site and services. As you can see, our site provides sample code, SDKs, libraries, forums and blogs, as well as a mechanism to request development keys that will allow developers to code and test in the sandbox.”

Yahoo is launching third-party user authentication with Facebook and Google logins (via OpenID) across its network of websites. Users of Facebook and Google will be able to sign in and interact on Yahoo! Via their Facebook or Google IDs.

American people will soon be assigned special Internet passports to roam online. The White House is developing a "National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace" under which the Commerce Department becomes responsible for an "Identity Ecoystem".

82 websites that sell counterfeit or pirated goods were seized by the US prosecutors this week in the coordinated law enforcement effort, known as "Operation In Our Sites II” timed with the start of the online holiday shopping season.

"As of today -- what is known as 'Cyber Monday' and billed as the busiest online shopping day of the year -- anyone attempting to access one of these websites using its domain name will no longer be able to make a purchase," U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters.

Google was accused of misusing its search monopoly to unfairly favor its own services over its rivals, according to the antitrust complaint filed by the UK-based search company Foundem. While Google refuted the claims saying the company's search engine always delivers "the best end-user outcome”, Harvard professor and Google watcher Ben Edelman believes otherwise. Edelman alleges he has found a "smoking gun" that indicates Google's search engine does in fact favor the company's own services.

China’s largest business-to-consumer (B2C) platform Taobao Mall has introduced a new independent web domain www.tmall.com that will feature an emphasis on product verticals and a standardized framework to guide Taobao Mall’s supply chain partners and merchants.

The new web resource will cover such areas as logistics; product quality; and customer service, and it will serve to provide users with an improved shopping experience.

Northwestern University researchers, Choudhary and Ramanathan Narayanan, are now ready to name the most influential people on Tweeter of the day.

That became available thanks to the new technology that allows sift through the tens of millions of tweets sent each day on the microblogging website

As it became known, Saturday the Motion Picture Association of America web site, MPAA.org, was attacked by pirates enraged by an escalation in anti-piracy efforts.

The web sites of the lobbying arm of the major Hollywood studios and AiPlex Software, a company the MPAA hired to target sites where piracy was rampant, were brought down for much of the day.

Microsoft unveiled at last its new version of a popular web browser saying that it would work at faster speeds, deliver better graphics and be less obtrusive to users. Internet Explorer 9, unlike previous versions and many competing browsers, pushes itself into the background.

"People go to the Web for site, not the browser," said Dean Hachamovitch, general manager for IE, at a press event in San Francisco. "Today Web sites are boxed in, the box is the browser."

Twitter is rolling out a new version of its website to simplify for its millions of users to navigate the service and discover new information. The company announced the redesign of the website which will include YouTube videos and other content featured in a new two-panel layout.

Twitter Chief Executive Evan Williams said the overhauled twitter.com features a completely new architecture, which is more responsive and user-friendly

"It makes it such a richer and faster experience," Williams said at a press conference to announce the new site.