In its quest to provide employees with a convenient way of getting to work, Facebook will be doing a 90-day trial run of its charter boat that will ferry workers across the San Francisco Bay.

Colorado, US-based big data firm Datalogix is acquiring Connecticut-based shopper intelligence company Spire Marketing for an undisclosed amount to expand its footprint into shopper marketing.

The "Technology and Internet Conference" of Goldman Sachs will be launched on Tuesday, February 11, 2014 with the best companies from the public and private sector as its attendees, TechCrunch reported.

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan were the most generous American philanthropists in 2013 according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the Associated Press reported.

New York City, US-based smart flight finding mobile app Hit List exited the beta phase and is currently raising around $500,000 in its seed funding round.

Facebook is scrambling to fix a mobile security glitch discovered this week by MyPermissions chief Olivier Amar which involves the inability to remove apps that were previously downloaded.

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.

Facebook launched an individualized and automated "Look Back" video feature in time for its 10th anniversary, but a source said the social networking giant will be releasing an edit tool to allow users to customize the photos included in the clip.

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.

Georg Petschnigg, Chief Executive Officer of creativity tool Paper, wants Facebook to change the name of the new mobile news app that it launched last week, which is also called Paper.