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 Yahoo has joined the increasing number of technology companies publishing details of how many requests US law enforcement agencies have made for data on their users. Pictured: Yahoo chief executive, Marissa Mayer, said the tech firm did not take for granted the trust of users. Photograph: Peter Kramer/AP
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 We've been working on getting more details on a press event that Facebook is having this week. Earlier, we wrote it could launch a news-reading app, but we have since heard more details that point to something else entirely. On June 20, a source says Facebook will unveil that Instagram, its popular photo-sharing app, will begin to let people also take and share short videos. Call it the Vine effect.
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 Apple says it received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data for the six months ended in May. Pictured: Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco on June 10, 2013 (AFP/File, Josh Edelson)
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 Google, the internet giant, is to create a global database of child abuse images - which it will share with its rival companies - in a bid to eradicate child pornography from the web.
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 Google is launching balloons into near space to provide internet access to buildings below on the ground. About 30 of the superpressure balloons are being launched from New Zealand from where they will drift around the world on a controlled path.
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Facebook is introducing hashtags, the number signs used on Twitter, Instagram and other services to identify topics being discussed and allow users to search for them. Pictured: Facebook will now let users find or contribute to group conversations by employing a Twitter-like hashtag. (Facebook)
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 A top Apple Inc. executive described as Steve Jobs' right-hand man took the witness stand at a Manhattan price-fixing trial and denied scheming with major book publishers to drive up the cost of electronic books. Pictured: Eddy Cue, (left) an Apple senior vice president, was a key witness in a government case on e-book price fixing. (LOUIS LANZANO /ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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Microsoft's Office software package is coming to the iPhone for the first time Friday, offering people the ability to read and edit their text documents, spreadsheets and slide presentations at the doctor's office or at a soccer game. Pictured: This undated screenshot provided by Microsoft shows Microsoft's Office software package iPhone application, which offers people the ability to read and edit their text documents, spreadsheets and slide presentations on a phone. (AP Photo/Microsoft)
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 Amid the debate over government surveillance, there's been an assumption: Young people don't care about privacy. Pictured: Mandi Grandjean sits inside her home in Canton, Ohio Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Grandjean, a recent graduate of Miami University in Ohio, says she's fine with the government doing secret surveillance of phone call records and Internet exchanges, but believes it's different when it comes to an employer, or even a coach. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan)
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Google Inc.'s $1.03 billion purchase of Israeli navigation software maker Waze marks an important milestone for the country that affectionately calls itself "Start-Up Nation." Pictured: Waze co-founder Uri Levine (photo credit: Flash90)
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