Germany -- Global search engine leader Google once again is hooked up in a fresh legal tussle originating from their autocomplete functionality in search. This time, it is former German First Lady Bettina Wulff, who claims that Google has defamed her and "ruined her reputation with unsavory terms" with its instant search feature.

New York -- GoDaddy, the massive Web hosting company, on Monday was hit by an outage reportedly carried out by a member of Anonymous zapping around thousands and possibly millions of websites hosted by GoDaddy.com went down for several hours, causing trouble for the mainly small businesses that rely on the service.

San Francisco -- In a surprising turn of events, Amazon is making everyone alert and take notice with its recently announced array of new Kindles. And for all the ballyhoo with this launch, there is something a bit odd about the new Kindle Fires: the tablets may run on Google's Android operating system… yet the default search engine on the device will be Microsoft's Bing, instead of Google, it looks like Amazon is trying to cut the business partnership with Google.

San Francisco -- Marketers are pouring out money into upholding their social presences and creating sponsored ad campaigns; but they are not sure whether any of these modern tactics actually work. In order to solve this puzzle and find out the (ROI), after several months of beta testing, Adobe believes it can provide the answers marketers are vying for with Adobe Social, a suite of features aimed at marketers wanting to get to grips with social platforms.