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 Friday, 31-January-2014  06:23:18 (GMT +10) - by aftahours

People with phobias of stepping on Lego might like this. 'Build with Chrome' is a new feature that lets users play with Lego’s colourful toy blocks in their web browsers.

Apple just seem to be selling more and more iPhones, with 51 million sold last quarter up from 47.8 million from the same period the year before. Thanks, IntelInside.

Satoru Iwata, the head of Nintendo, has voluntarily slashed his pay in half after its nine-month profit slumped 30 per cent because of weak demand for its Wii U games console.

As Facebook turns 10, Bloomberg interview Mark Zuckerberg about getting his site through puberty. His social network is used by 1.23 billion people around the world. The company is worth around $135 billion and will probably become the fastest in history to reach $150 billion.

Google have upset the South Koreans by collecting personal data when it was setting up its Street View service, and has been fined US$196,000. The penalty is the first of its kind slapped on a global company in South Korea for violating private info protection laws, when it was building its Street View service.

However, to help pay for it, Google sold Motorola to Lenovo for 2.91 billion. Google believes Lenovo can turn Motorola into "A major player within the Android Ecosystem". Full story here.

This guy apparently had his "@N" twitter username stolen, apparently worth up to $50,000, and Paypal apparently deny providing any payment information to the hacker. PayPal has denied that its customer service representative divulged credit card information over the phone. GoDaddy has admitted partial responsibility for the incidents. Finally, the @N account itself is actually in someone else’s hands, after Twitter made it available after initially deactivating it.



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