(Reuters) – At Friday’s hearing in the U.S. Justice Department’s criminal copyright case against Megaupload, Paul Brinkman and William Burck of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan appeared on behalf of the shuttered file-sharing site, Megaupload, according to my Reuters colleague Jeremy Pelofsky, who attended the Alexandria, Va., federal court session. If you haven’t been closely following the docket in this case, that will come as a surprise

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NEW YORK (TheWrap.com) – Bono and The Edge, who make up half of a little band called U2, have invested in Dropbox, according to a tweet by the cloud storage start-up on Monday. The company, which raised a $250 million investment around this past October, tweeted a photo of the two musicians with co-founders Arash Ferdowsi and Drew Houston

LOS ANGELES, April 1 (TheWrap.com) – Keith Olbermann’s ouster from Current TV on Friday caught many off-guard, despite his oft-contentious relationship with his former bosses. However, like the famously outspoken “Countdown” host himself, many in the Twitter community were at no loss for words once word of his firing broke. While Olbermann reacted to his axing with predictable venom, branding Current TV a “failure,” many tweeters found humor in the host’s latest employment woes

BOAO, China (Reuters) – Foxconn Technology Group will keep on increasing worker salaries in China and cutting the hours of work, Chairman Terry Gou said on Sunday, after it came under fire for poor working conditions for employees making Apple iPhones and iPads.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Chinese authorities shut 16 websites and detained six people accused of spreading rumors of unusual military vehicle movements in Beijing, state media reported, after the political downfall of one of the ruling communist party’s senior leaders. Authorities closed the websites for spreading rumors of “military vehicles entering Beijing and something wrong going on in Beijing,” Xinhua news agency said late on Friday, citing a spokesman with the State Internet Information Office (SIIO). …

NEW YORK, March 29 (TheWrap.com) – Spotify said it “was extending the honeymoon” for free, unlimited listening on Thursday. The music streaming service offers pay packages, which reward users with fewer ads, offline listening and other features, but has also offered another option – free.

CLEVELAND, Ohio (Reuters) – Flash mobs have been blamed as a factor in looting during urban riots. But now a group of online activists is harnessing social media like Twitter and Facebook to get consumers to spend at locally owned stores in cities around the world in so-called Cash Mobs

LONDON (Reuters) – A controversial attempt to expand Internet addresses far beyond the likes of .com, .org or .net has provoked a rare threat from the U.S. government to withdraw a key license from the body that runs the Internet’s core functions

Microbloggers are using their 140 characters to encourage their followers to reduce their water consumption and to think about every drop they use on World Water Day.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc’s new iPad throws off a lot more heat than the previous version, lending weight to complaints on Internet forums that the hot-selling tablet computer could get uncomfortably warm after heavy use, an influential consumer watchdog found after running tests. …

TORONTO (Reuters) – Imagine standing at the Eiffel Tower and being able to see messages and videos overlaid through your smartphone from all visitors who have come before you. A new app called Wallit combines augmented reality, a virtual view of the real world that can be extended with graphics and other content, with a social experience. It allows users to post and view content at virtual walls in popular places, tourist attractions such as the Eiffel Tower, stadiums and stores

Latin America is the world’s fastest-growing market for Internet access, and could double within a decade, the group that oversees Internet-related tasks said Friday.

(Reuters) – CNN is in talks to buy social media news site Mashable for more than $200 million, according to a source familiar with the discussion. Reuters’ blogger Felix Salmon said the deal could be announced as soon as Tuesday, although another person familiar with the matter said it was not likely to be announced this week

Christine Martinez spent the past week frolicking on the Caribbean island of St.Barth after becoming a star by sharing her sense of style at Pinterest.com.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Search engines users disapprove of personal data being collected for search results or for targeted advertising, according to a Pew survey released on Friday that underscored the public’s growing concern with web privacy. The survey results come after Internet search company Google said in January it was simplifying its privacy policy and would pool data on users across its services, including YouTube and Gmail. Users cannot opt out of the new policy

The humanitarian group Invisible Children has scored a massive online hit with its video “Kony 2012,” which was created to raise awareness of the alleged war crimes, particularly the use of child soldiers, by the former leader of the Ugandan military group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Joseph Kony.

Reuters – Within three months of the launch of the Internet “pornography” domain “.xxx,” 10 cases have been launched against Web pirates registering sites on it using the names of reputable companies and people, insiders said on Monday.