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January

YouTube to showcase 4K streaming using VP9 codec at CES

Facebook on the verge of losing 80 percent of its users, say Princeton researchers

Facebook fights back, claims Princeton will lose all students by 2021

These are the worst countries when it comes to throttling BitTorrent traffic

Researchers demonstrate 1.4 Tbps broadband connection using commercial-grade hardware

Yahoo is the most visited web destination for the sixth month in a row

Overstock becomes first major online retailer to accept Bitcoins

Spotify announces unlimited free browser music streaming less than a week ahead of Beats Music launch

Obama to announce plans for NSA reforms this Friday

Intel's Internet TV project failed because they couldn't secure content deals

February

Facebook buys WhatsApp for $16 billion, suddenly Instagram's $1b acquisition looks like a bargain

Facebook to discontinue email service

Federal Reserve has no authority to regulate Bitcoin, chairwoman says

Netflix signs deal with Comcast to keep streams lag-free

Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange breaks silence, files for bankruptcy protection

March

Popcorn Time, 'the Napster for movies' shut down, then revived

'Confused and frustrated' Zuckerberg calls Obama to protest NSA spy programs

The Million Dollar Homepage is still alive but many of its links are dead

Try your luck at hacking into Jurassic Park's UNIX network

Microsoft admits snooping on blogger's Hotmail account to find Windows 8 leak

Facebook plans to deliver internet access with satellites, lasers and flying drones

The World Wide Web Turns 25

Amazon Prime subscriptions bumped to $99 a year starting next week

April

European parliament votes to end roaming charges, adopts 'net neutrality'

Drop Dropbox campaign surfaces against Condoleezza Rice's appointment to the board

May

ISPs will begin sending alert mesages to illegal downloaders starting in 2015

The Wayback Machine has indexed over 400 billion webpages since 1996

Top ISPs warn FCC against adopting more regulations of broadband lines

Amazon earned more in sales last year than its next 10 biggest competitors combined

June

Popcorn Time adds free built-in VPN to anonymize users' torrenting

Net Neutrality: Here's all you need to know about it, in a hilarious yet informative video

A single entity often controls more than half of all Bitcoin mining

A record 1.7 million people logged into WatchESPN to view World Cup games

July

French court forces blogger to pay damages over negative restaurant review

Russia demands major websites to store personal data locally

8.5% of Wikipedia has been created by one man and his bot

US government says data stored overseas isn't protected by the Fourth Amendment

August

Netflix is now paying Time Warner Cable for faster speeds

The man who claims to have created the first pop-up ad wants to apologize

This New York Inn's policy of charging $500 fine for every bad Yelp review backfires tremendously

Here's how to make a GIF from any YouTube video in seconds

Newegg expands global footprint, now available in key European and Asian markets

Netflix surpassed HBO for the first time in subscriber revenue last quarter

September

Twitpic is shutting down and Twitter is to blame

Here's what it takes to keep The Pirate Bay up and running

Alibaba IPO becomes largest in history at $25B after underwriters buy additional shares

Facebook's market value hits $200 Billion, stock at all-time high

Netflix pressured to shut down VPN access by content rights holders

HBO 'seriously considering' offering HBO Go as a direct-to-consumer option

MSN Messenger's 15 year run coming to an end this October

October

Researchers demonstrate insanely fast 225 terabit per second fiber network

New FCC proposal would give Internet TV services access to same content as cable

Google algorithm change has killed search traffic to pirate sites

Judge strikes down Aereo's cable license request, slaps nationwide preliminary injunction

Netflix enlists Adam Sandler to star in and produce four feature films

HBO answers cord-cutters' prayers, will soon let you watch its shows without cable

November

Politicians overseeing Internet received over $8 million from major cable companies in 2014

Amazon Prime membership now includes unlimited cloud storage for photos

European Parliament may call for breakup of Google

Obama endorses net neutrality, asks the FCC to classify internet as a utility

Kim Dotcom's legal team exits as Megaupload founder runs out of money

Online sales up 14 percent on Thanksgiving as consumers opt to shop from home

FCC responds to Obama's net neutrality statement: "I am an independent agency"

European Parliament wants to break up Google over anti-competitive concerns

Walmart will now price match online retailers like Amazon

Spotify has now paid $2B in royalties, Taylor Swift would have made $6M this year

US court says Google can order its search results the way it wants

Apple's search engine deal with Google expires next year, Microsoft and Yahoo both want in

December

Tech giants including Intel, IBM and Qualcomm come out strongly against Title II net neutrality

Pirate Bay co-founder hopes the site stays closed for good

Psy's "Gangnam Style" video broke YouTube's hit counter

Google eliminates annoying Captchas with a checkbox to verify you aren't a robot

Judge endorses giving NSA unlimited access to digital information

First conviction made in California's new 'revenge porn' law

Instagram eclipses Twitter with more than 300 million monthly active users

Steam Broadcasting is Valve's answer to Twitch, available now in beta

German Chancellor opposes net neutrality, says fast lanes required for advanced uses of Internet

The Pirate Bay has once again been raided by police, shut down

HBO streaming plan to launch next year alongside Game of Thrones' new season

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