New York, US-based personal data exchange startup Datacoup is running a beta trial where people are paid $8 a month in exchange of access to their social media account and credit and debit card transactions, with the data collected to be sold to advertisers.

Soon-to-be Microsoft-owned mobile phone maker Nokia will reportedly launch its first Android phone code named Normandy, which could be powered by Microsoft and Nokia, on February 24 in Barcelona, Spain.

Google announced today that its media streaming dongle, Chromecast, now supports YouTube videos that are embedded on the page, eliminating the need to navigate to the YouTube site or mobile app in order to flick videos to the TV screen.

Planetary Ventures, the shell firm that Google infrequently uses for its real estate deals, has won the right to lease Moffett Field and Hangar One.

Debu Purkayastha, a senior international executive who has worked with Google for six years, will be leaving the search giant to join the team at venture capital firm Octopus Investments, Tech Crunch reported.

Yandex, a Russian internet group, announced on its website that it will be opening an office in Berlin. The new office is a sign that the Russian firm is ramping up its foreign ambitions, Reuters reported.

Google advertising executive Susan Wojcicki is reportedly being promoted to chief position at YouTube to improve the latter's video ad revenue, according to The Information.

The New York City Police Department's intelligence and analytics unit is checking out if Google's latest innovation, Google Glass, can be used for law enforcement, VentureBeat reported.

In a bid to show that their participation in the surveillance efforts of the government was limited, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google started to publish details on the number of government requests for data, Reuters reported.

Tech and Internet giant Google released a new software development kit (SDK) that allows developers to build their own apps for the Chromecast streaming media dongle.