Spotify has launched a charts system that reports the top 50 songs, regionally, that its users are listening to and sharing. It's also enabled play counts for all tracks to drive up fan engagement.
Ars Technica and security researcher Ashkan Soltani discovered several encrypted links sent via Skype were accessed by Microsoft-affiliated IP addresses.
The AFL-CIO, America's largest labor federation, announced their opposition to a tech industry-supported immigration bill amendment that would ease restrictions on H-1B visas.
WordPress's founder says that up to 72,000 blogs per hour were defecting from Tumblr to WordPress just with a hint of a Yahoo purchase. That's bad news for Yahoo.