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The Finance Ministry is working on a draft to allow Twitter to open an ?electronic office? in Turkey, which will allow the microblogging giant to pay taxes in Turkey and ease tensions with Ankara.

A transparency report by Google, which contains data on government requests for user information and requests to remove material from the net, says the US internet giant received four requests from the government of Kosovo to remove content.

Search engine Google has agreed to better inform users about how it handles their personal information after an investigation by Britain's data protection regulator found its privacy policy was too vague.
   

An audio message purportedly from a Japanese journalist being held by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants said a Jordanian air force pilot also captured by the group would be killed unless an Iraqi female prisoner in Jordan was released on the Turkish border by sunset on Jan. 29.

The head of Boko Haram -- the enigmatic Abubakar Shekau -- has openly taunted the countries being menaced by the armed Islamist group as they call for a united effort to crush it.
      

An amateur drone pilot has revealed that any remote-control unmanned vehicle can freely roam the skies over a busy Istanbul airport, despite huge risks.

Hackers claiming to be affiliated to Islamic State (IS) jihadist group on Monday hacked the Twitter and YouTube accounts of US Central Command.

The hackers also leaked online what they claimed were internal documents, according to international media reports.

A video released late on Dec. 31 purported to show two Italian women held by militants in Syria, with one of them saying they are in danger of being killed.
   

The head of Turkey’s Constitutional Court, Haşim Kılıç, has deplored becoming the government’s scapegoat for the ruling overturning bans on Twitter and YouTube earlier this year, while warning that the once decried “judicial tutelage” has been replaced by a new one.

Controversial low-brow comedy "The Interview" scored more than $15 million in online rentals and purchases, entertainment giant Sony said, following an embarrassing cyberattack and threats that led the company to pull the film from theaters.