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• China State-linked Microblog Service Hacked at Launch A Twitter-style service offered by a government-linked news site in China was hacked and went offline.
• Facebook's Other Top Trend of 2009: Divorce Facebook is cited in one out of every five divorce petitions, according to some new research published this week. So what's going on?
• Dress Up Firefox with Personas Tired of drab old Firefox? Personas, a new Mozilla Labs feature, makes it simple to pick and choose colorful themes.
• Facebook's Top Status Updates of 2009 Facebook apps, "FML," and even Facebook itself earn spots on the list -- but the social network's privacy problems are not on there.
• Disney, CBS Coming to iTunes TV? Despite reports that Disney and CBS will bring their shows to Apple's rumored subscription service, I'm still skeptical about the whole idea.
• Report: Disney and CBS Interested in Apple TV Plans Apple is looking to add monthly subscriptions to the TV content available in its online iTunes store. Disney and CBS are interested in signing on.
• Twitter Turns a Profit (Really) Thanks to deals with search companies, the micro-blogging site is like to make something of a profit in 2009.
• Caption Search: Another Reason to Love Hulu Simple, but powerful new feature lets you do text searches that will scour the captions that many shows offer.
• Facebook Trojan: Brazen, but (Luckily) Benign Third-party application called "Phutos" was able to mimic Facebook's native functionality.
• Indian Industry Frowns on Employees Using Social Networks An Indian industry association says employees are wasting time on social networks.
• 2009 Last-Minute Holiday Geek Gift Guide You may not be able to avoid last-minute gift-getting, but these ideas may make it less painful.
• Google Races to Speed up the Web Google is in a really big hurry to make the Web experience faster.
• Yelp Doesn't Need Google, But Google Could Use Yelp Google could integrate Yelp results into its maps searches, or build those results right into Android -- an easy way for Google to improve its own business directory.
• China Video Site Youku Raises $40 Million for Expansion Chinese video-streaming Web site Youku.com raised $40 million in new equity funding as it looks to expand its popular service.
• Privacy Worries on Facebook? Just Wait A CMU researcher warns that technology needs to strike a balance between privacy concerns and useful data mining.
• Google, Microsoft Bing Deals Benefit Twitter Most prolific tweeter sees partnerships as a needed boost to the microblogging site.
• Firefox 3.6 Beta Updated Mozilla ships a fifth beta of Firefox 3.6 and delays release of the final code until next year.
• Apple Dominates Product Searches Online The most sought-after tech gifts in the UK are made by Apple, according to Web search statistics.
• Google Fast Flip Adds Publications More than 50 newspapers, magazines, sites and TV stations join the selection at Fast Flip, which lets readers preview a variety of sites.
• Twitter's DNS Provider Denies Hack Rerouting was managed from within Twitter's own account, says the microblogging site's domain manager.
• Journey of a Tweet Here's how an innocent Twitter note to friends can become an Internet sensation.
• Twitter Hacked by Iran? No Way, Say Bloggers The overnight wires hummed with tales of Twitter being hacked by the "Iranian Cyber Army." But all is not as it seems.
• Microsoft, Intel, Google Legal News Prevails It was a week where competition regulators danced with IT industry behemoths: the U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel, while...
• Gov't Broadband Project to Compete With Existing Service A Georgia broadband project funded by the U.S. government will compete with existing broadband service.
• Paris Court Rules Against Google in Book Copyright Case Google's book search project suffered a legal setback in Paris on Friday, as a court ordered it to pay €300,000 in damages for breach of copyright