Google closes the service iGoogle, which allows you to customize the start page with the preferences of the user, and set up a personal web portal like My Yahoo. According to the developers of Google, the need for iGoogle gradually disappears with the development of applications for Chrome, Android and other platforms. Support iGoogle, launched in 2005, will be discontinued as of November 1, 2013.

Social network "VKontakte" since July changed the payment to the developers for placement of display advertising in their applications. In the case of placement of commercials lasting 9 seconds and video banners payments with thousands of hits will increase by 50%. At the cost of accommodation for the advertisers it will not change, "- said in a statement," VKontakte ".

AdSense team announced the introduction of new features - the possibility for the user to disable ads by clicking on the [x]. With the new functional system users will be able to control the display of ads and report on what ads they are not interested.

Upgrading to Windows 8 will cost users Windows XP, Vista or Windows 7 to 39.99 U.S. dollars.

According to a recent study by research firm StatCounter currently Windows 7 is installed on 50.2% of the computers in the world. In second place by a large margin from the other participants in the study is still in Windows XP with a share of 29.9%, and lose more of their positions.

Twitter has published its first so-called "Statement of transparency," which reported on the query statistics of companies and public organizations to disclose personal information of users.

The world's largest social network Facebook has introduced new icons to represent same-sex marriages in which a pair of traditional "bride and groom" is replaced by a schematic representation of same-sex couples.

Google the company, which is suspected of unfair use of market dominance of Internet search and advertising to restrict competition, sent to the European Union antitrust regulators proposals to resolve the conflict.

Yandex reported a substantial refinement of search results for programmers. Now he knows twice as many programming languages ​​and know about the different versions of the language and libraries.

Members of the most popular social networking site Facebook have found that the new e-mail addresses have been made without their consent in a different address book, which led to confusion and loss of important letters. And to recover lost emails is not possible.