U.S. Internet giant Yahoo! on Tuesday rejected allegations of copyright infringement by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) and issued a counterclaim against the leading Asian publisher.

"The company denies all allegations of wrongful copyright infringement by SPH," Yahoo! Southeast Asia said in a press statement.

BuzzFeed, a website which has built a cult following with links to oddball videos and offbeat stories, is hiring a star political reporter in a bid to produce more original content and send it viral.

Ben Smith, who has been a senior political writer at Politico.com, a site for Washington news junkies, since 2007, will join BuzzFeed.com on January 1 as editor-in-chief, BuzzFeed co-founder Jonah Peretti announced Monday.

Chinese authorities have detained two men for "spreading a rumor" on the Internet that thousands of police officers were deployed to guard a wedding convoy, state media said Monday.

According to the official Xinhua news agency, the two men were detained in the central province of Hunan on Sunday for posting a video clip online showing scores of police officers and a wedding convoy on a street.

U.S. networking equipment company Adtran said on Monday it planned to buy Finnish-German Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN)'s fixed line broadband access business, entailing the transfer of about 400 NSN employees to Adtran.

Adtran said in a statement it would buy the broadband access business, along with the accompanying intellectual properties and technologies, through an "asset sale and purchase agreement," but did not reveal the price tag.

The European Union should help teach bloggers living under oppressive regimes how to communicate freely and avoid detection, and develop technology to help them, the bloc's digital affairs commissioner said Friday.

Speaking at an online free speech conference, Neelie Kroes said digital dissidents need tools that are "simple and ready-made."

The Facebook group was titled "No More West Indian Day Detail," referring to the police patrol for a raucous annual Brooklyn parade.

Sprinkled among the frustrations aired about regulating the crowded, loud, often-violent event were comments that were more offensive. Some called the parade, held in a predominantly black neighborhood, "ghetto training," and a "scheduled riot." Others referred to participants as savages.

"The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" flew away with the game of the year trophy at the Spike Video Game Awards.

The dragon-slaying epic also won as best role-playing game, and "Skyrim" developer Bethesda Softworks was selected as the studio of the year at Saturday's ninth annual Spike Video Game Awards, which honors outstanding achievements within the gaming industry over the past year.

Electric cars have been unpopular in Germany, with fewer than 2,000 of the zero-tailpipe emission vehicles expected to be registered this year, said a study published on Sunday.

In the first 11 months of the year, just over 1,800 e-cars were registered in Germany, said the CAR-Center Automotive Research institute, which predicted a total of 1,900 registered units for the year as a whole.

Indonesia has threatened to cut data services used by millions of BlackBerry customers, the industry body said Saturday, in an ongoing spat over infrastructure and government access to information.

The industry regulator said it would block internet services to the smartphones in the biggest market for Research In Motion (RIM) -- which makes the BlackBerry -- outside North America if RIM did not comply with its demands.

Netscape co-founder turned Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen on Friday shot down reports he was in line to take an executive role at struggling Internet pioneer Yahoo!.

"Over the last several weeks, there have been erroneous reports in the press that my partner Jeff Jordan and/or I might become an operating executive of Yahoo in some capacity," Andreessen said in a post on his personal blog.