Hackers post W.Va. police officers' personal info (AP)

AP - Hackers affiliated with the Anonymous hacking group obtained more than 150 police officers' personal information from an old website for the West Virginia Chiefs of Police Association and posted it online.

AOL hires chief content officer for troubled Patch (Reuters)

Reuters - AOL Inc, which has been investing heavily in content to make up for declining revenue from dial-up Internet access, has hired an executive for the newly created position of chief content officer at its struggling Patch hyperlocal news network.

Yahoo chairman exits, review drags on (Reuters)

Reuters - Yahoo Inc Chairman Roy Bostock and three other directors will step down as the struggling company ploughs ahead with an internal overhaul, including discussions on dealing with its stakes in China's Alibaba Group and Yahoo Japan.

French min deletes "stay indoors" tip for homeless (Reuters)

Reuters - A French health minister tried to tweet her way out of embarrassing blog advice that homeless people should not go outdoors during the ice-cold snap in Europe.

Analysis: More than just Great Firewall awaits Facebook in China (Reuters)

Reuters - When it comes to China, Facebook should consider itself forewarned. Cracking the world's biggest Internet population might seem an obvious ambition for the social networking giant as it trumpets its global growth before a $5 billion initial public offering, but the chances it will succeed look slim.

Chairman, 3 others out in Yahoo board shake-up (AP)

AP - Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and three longtime board members are stepping down, submitting to the demands of many frustrated shareholders who blame them for contributing to the follies that have dragged down the Internet company's revenue and stock price.

British Cabinet Warns of Possible Internet Outages During Summer Olympics (Mashable)

Mashable - The British Cabinet Office has warned businesses in England that the country may not be able to fully accommodate a surge in Internet use during the 2012 Olympics in London this summer. Businesses have been told that Internet providers may be forced to ration access to the web during certain times of day and service may fall out altogether at other times.

IMDB "Jane Doe" case gets a court date (Reuters)

Reuters - Junie Hoang, the actress suing the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) for revealing her age, will see her day -- and perhaps two days -- in court next year.

Amazon, Viacom close to Web video deal (Reuters)

Reuters - Amazon.com Inc is about to announce a Web video deal with Viacom Inc in what sources said was one of the last steps in a plan to launch a standalone subscription service to compete with Netflix Inc.

Super Bowl XLVI Serves a Record 2.1 Million Live Streams (Mashable)

Mashable - More than 2.1 million viewers watched Super Bowl XLVI via live streams. While this paled in comparison to the game's record-breaking 111.3 million broadcast viewers, it still set a viewership record for online sporting streams. NBC tells the Associated Press that the Super Bowl was the "most-watched single-game sports event online."

Summary Box: Jobs flow from mobile, Facebook apps (AP)

AP - CAREER OPPORTUNITY: All those apps being made for smartphones, computer tablets and Facebook's online social network are helping the U.S. economy lower its unemployment rate. A study released Tuesday by the technology trade group TechNet estimates apps are responsible for creating about 466,000 U.S. jobs since 2007.

Google Chrome comes to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich devices (Appolicious)

Appolicious - Google’s entry into the desktop web browser market, Chrome, has rocketed in popularity since its release back in 2008, but it has never quite made the logical leap to Google’s Android operating system – until now, that is.

Looking for work? There may be an app for that (AP)

AP - Looking for a promising career in a lousy economy? A new study suggests you're apt to find it in apps — the services and tools built to run on smartphones, computer tablets and Facebook's online social network.

Outfit7’s Talking Tom Cat app breaks 100 million downloads, gets new partnership (Appolicious)

Appolicious - We usually hear that the most popular apps in Apple’s iTunes App Store are games. But an exception to that rule is Talking Tom Cat, an app from Outfit7 that has racked up 100 million downloads on iOS and Google’s Android.

The top 10 songs and albums on the iTunes Store (AP)

AP - iTunes' Official Music Charts for the week ending Feb. 6, 2012:

Yahoo Chairman Steps Down (Mashable)

Mashable - Yahoo's chairman of the board, Roy Bostock, is leaving the company. Bostock has been chairman since 2008. Bostock revealed the news to shareholders in a long letter describing the company's recent restrategizing. A far cry from a resignation letter, Bostock is upbeat about Yahoo's future and its recent moves, saying that, since the company is in a position to "drive innovation and growth going forward," he will not seek re-election at the next shareholders' meeting.

Fashion Startup Moda Operandi: Now Opening to the World (Mashable)

Mashable - Moda Operandi, the closely watched online retail operation from ex-Gilt exec Aslaug Magnusdottir and Vogue contributing editor Lauren Santo Domingo, is in transition. Once accessible only via application, the year-old site is opening its doors and bolstering its content offerings in an attempt to draw new shoppers in and keep them there.

Pandora vs. Spotify: Who Will Win the Battle for Streaming Music? (Mashable)

Mashable - Matthew Bryan Beck is an NYC-based singer-songwriter, producer, editor, graphic designer and photographer. He writes the tech/social media blog Sludgr. Follow him on Twitter and Subscribe on Facebook. Once upon a time, the future of streaming music rested squarely on the shoulders of Pandora Radio.

Google Chrome for Android has Arrived, But It's Only for the 1% (Mashable)

Mashable - Google Chrome, the search giant's signature browser, has arrived for Android mobile devices -- or some of them, at least.

Anfield cat becomes Internet hit (Reuters)

Reuters - A cat that invaded the famous Anfield turf for three minutes during Liverpool's 0-0 Premier League draw with Tottenham Hotspur on Monday has become an internet celebrity.

Cyberplex unit to pay $4.8 million to Yahoo for poor traffic (Reuters)

Reuters - Cyberplex Inc said its debt-laden unit Tsavo Media is required to pay Yahoo Inc $4.8 million for what the U.S. search company called "low quality traffic" from ads on Tsavo-run websites last year.

Microsoft slams Google user data policy in new ads (AP)

AP - Microsoft Corp. slammed search rival Google Inc. with full-page newspaper ads Wednesday, saying that recent changes at Google that allow it to internally merge the data it collects on user activity across services such as YouTube and Gmail are meant to allow advertisers to better target customers.

House lawmakers seek Google answers on privacy policy (Reuters)

Reuters - Lawmakers on the House Energy and Commerce Committee asked Google Inc on Thursday to provide answers about recent changes to the search engine's privacy policy.

Analysis: Wall Street puzzles over Google's new direction (Reuters)

Reuters - Google Inc, which revolutionized Internet searches with an easy-to-use website, has itself become an increasingly tricky business to grasp.

Core suppliers savor bigger Apple pie (Reuters)

Reuters - Suppliers basked in the reflection of Apple's glowing results on Wednesday after the company's gold standard iPhones and iPads flew off the shelves over the holiday sales season.

Yahoo delivers another listless performance in 4Q (AP)

AP - Yahoo slipped further behind in the online advertising race during the fourth quarter as the Internet company entered the fourth year of a revenue slump.

New Yahoo CEO says company needs to "do better" (Reuters)

Reuters - Yahoo Chief Executive Scott Thompson tried to manage expectations on his first earnings call as the new CEO, broadly addressing numerous issues the Internet company is grappling with -- from a potential sale to reviving its core display advertising business -- but declined to lay out a detailed strategy.

Google's 4Q lobbying bill triples to $3.76 million (AP)

AP - Google's U.S. lobbying bill more than tripled to $3.76 million in the fourth quarter as the Internet search leader fought proposed changes to online piracy laws and sought to influence a wide range of other issues that could affect its fortunes.

Google shares slide but analysts stay upbeat (Reuters)

Reuters - Shares of Google Inc fell 8 percent after the Internet giant posted a rare quarterly earnings miss and said money paid by marketers for its search ads decreased for the first time in two years.

Microsoft 2Q beats Street despite soft PC market (AP)

AP - Microsoft Corp. battled through a weak PC market to post flat earnings in the final quarter of 2011, boosting sales of servers, Xbox games and its Office productivity software while trimming losses at its Bing search engine.

Google's 4Q results miss analyst targets (AP)

AP - Google's earnings growth slowed dramatically in the fourth quarter as the holiday shopping season turned into a major letdown for investors.

EU to decide on Google, Motorola Mobility deal Feb 13 (Reuters)

Reuters - EU regulators set on Thursday a new February 13 deadline to decide whether to clear Google's takeover of U.S. handset maker Motorola Mobility after the Internet search engine came forward with new documents to support its case, the EU Commission said.

Big earnings could drive Google shares to new high (Reuters)

Reuters - Investors' optimism for Google Inc is running high, setting the stage for another jump in its shares to an all-time peak after the Internet search company reports results Thursday.

Google Takes a Bite Out of the Travel Pie (The Motley Fool)

The Motley Fool - The beauty of Google (Nasdaq: GOOG - News) lies in its constant effort to reinvent itself since its launch way back in 1998, as it powers its way into new avenues of revenue generation. But what began as, and still is, essentially a search engine has now emerged as an overpowering market competitor for some.

FTC expands Google antitrust probe: source (Reuters)

Reuters - U.S. regulators looking at whether Google manipulates its search results to favor its own products have expanded the probe to include Google+, the search giant's new social networking tool, a source familiar with the probe said on Friday.

Microsoft eclipses Yahoo in US search for 1st time (AP)

AP - Microsoft Corp. has finally reached a long-sought and expensive goal — its Bing search engine now ranks second behind Google in the Internet's most lucrative market.

Google search gets more personal, raises hackles (AP)

AP - Google is sifting through the photos and commentary on its blossoming social network so its Internet search results can include more personal information.

Google reportedly courts Hollywood for (more) YouTube movie rentals (Ben Patterson)

Ben Patterson - Google has been dabbling in streaming movie rentals for months now, but word has it that the search giant wants to plunge into the pay-per-view market head-first. Hollywood, meet YouTube.

Google upgrades search index speed, freshness (Christopher Null)

Christopher Null - Are you tired of searching Google for, say, a market share report and being handed data from 2009? Those days may be coming to an end, says Google, thanks to an update to its Web indexing system called Caffeine.

Microsoft Bing ends cashback feature (Christopher Null)

Christopher Null - Some called it a move of the truly desperate: Paying users outright for using the Microsoft Bing search engine.