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Alphabet Inc's Google will shut down the consumer version of its failed social network Google+ and tighten its data sharing policies after announcing that private profile data of at least 500,000 users may have been exposed.

Instagram has launched a mobile app dedicated to user-generated videos up to an hour long, competing with ad-supported streaming services such as YouTube.

Communications Minister Clare Curran wants to get rid of a siloed approach in digital policymaking, as she seeks to bridge the digital divide between communities with good internet access and those without.

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch on Monday called on Facebook to pay "trusted" news publishers a carriage fee.

Shares of Facebook Inc fell more than 4% and were on track for their worst session in more than three months after CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced changes that he said would hit user engagement in the near term.

First Apple Inc came under fire and now Microsoft has said that software patches released to guard against microchip security threats slowed down some personal computers and servers.

The government's Computer Emergency Response Team (Cert NZ) says people should make sure software on their devices is up-to-date after a design flaw in most processing chips was made public last week.

Apple Inc defrauded iPhone users by slowing devices without warning to compensate for poor battery performance, according to eight lawsuits filed in various federal courts in the week since the year-old software change was revealed.