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Today, Google officially announced their acquisition of the connective device company, Nest for $3.2 billion. Nest is most well known for their smoke alarm and thermostat devices.

SeatGeek might be a start up ticketing company, but they have already shut down competing ticketing company, Fan Snap after generous funding.

Whether you "buy in to" the Bitcoin craze or not, the point is that it's not going anywhere anytime soon, in fact Overstock has become the first major vendor to announce the acceptance of Bitcoin!

In the newest reveal from Facebook, they have launched a donate button for non-profit pages that collects its own information for billing.

Website owners worldwide are always interested in who visits their website, what they look for and how long they spend there. New research shows however, that more than half the time we are catering content to bot visitors.

A small problem we’ve all faced online at some point is the 404 page. They appear when you type in a URL that doesn’t exist and you’re quite often directed to a cold, plain and ultimately disappointing page that doesn’t provide you with the information you need and makes you feel, well…quite stupid. Many firms are wising up to this, and any company worth its weight in gold will come up with a helpful, and often amusing page, to keep the potential customer engaged.

A quick look at the UN’s ICT Development Index, released earlier this year, will show that almost four out of 10 people are likely to have some kind of internet access. Although that could be hailed as progress, of the most developed countries in terms of internet access and ICT in general, the top 10 are all developed countries, eight of them in Europe.

Google Chrome is getting in on the voice activated search function market with their newest Chrome extension designed to trigger whenever the user says the phrase "Okay Google."

Thanks to Google, business owners will now be able to see all of their business reviews from customers in one place rather than hopping all over the web!

FreedomPop is offering a mobile hotspot with free high speed WiFi access for $39.99. The gadget features 6+ hours of battery life and 2GB of cheap data and is a palm sized gadget.