Audience microblogging service Twitter broke the mark of half a billion accounts in June 2012. These data were presented by 30 July Semiocast. Representatives of Twitter does not disclose the total number of registered accounts.

By Nokia, received in Q2 net loss of 1.4 billion euros, has confirmed plans to close its last factory in Finland. The factory, located in the town of Salo in the south of the country, will stop operations in September of this year.

The monthly audience of mobile browser company Opera Software for the first time exceeded 200 million. This mark browsers Opera Mini and Opera Mobile overcome in June, according to a report developer.

Samsung more than double the company surpassed Apple's smartphone shipments in Q2 2012, according to a report of the research company Strategy Analytics. Samsung in April-June 2012, 50.5 million smartphones shipped and received almost 35% of the market.

Cost of goods from online stores may increase the size of the VAT. Internal Revenue Service has proposed to oblige merchants to buy goods over the internet cash registers. The relevant bill has been prepared. Internet sellers will have to issue a check to your customers.

The search giant Google added a mobile version of its search engine function of handwriting data. When enabled handwriting, the user can write a search query on the screen smartphone. However, the text does not have to be located in the search box - you can print the letters on the entire browser page.

The number of users of social network Facebook, at least once a month calling on the site has exceeded 955 million, the company said. At the end of Q2 2012, the audience of social network Facebook has grown by 6%, versus the estimate at the end of March this year.

Internet giant Google has come into a new business for themselves. The company began providing Internet access services, and on the speed in many times the speed of conventional providers. The first city where people can connect to the internet with it, has become Kansas City in the United States.

Facebook Inc. is actively working in this direction, but by no means alone. Sources familiar with the situation in the company, state that actively support the brainchild of Mark Zuckerberg in this issue provides a Taiwanese company HTC Corp.

To date, Twitter allows users to access only the last few thousand posts on the site. Soon, those who publishes several tweets per minute, will finally see the possibility that they wrote a year ago.