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ReDigi, the recently launched online music store that allows people to upload, store and resell music via a cloud environment, announced this week that it had successfully defended Capitol Records injunction suit.

In an interesting twist, Google butted into the case stating that if successful the case against ReDigi could pose a threat to the growing cloud computing industry. However, the main focus of the case remained on whether a service that lets users buy and sell previously purchased digital tracks was in fact supporting a “clearing house for copyright infringement”.

Google has updated the way it returns search results with the launch of 'Search Plus Your World' this month. ‘Search Plus Your World’ finds relevant content that’s been shared with you privately along with matches from the public web, all mixed into a single set of listings.  It offers three new features:

Facebook Starts Testing Private Messages

Facebook recently confirmed that it is testing private messages for pages. This is aimed primarily at brand pages that want to hold discussions with its fans which may be negative or hold confidential information.

Admins of pages can decide whether or not they want to accept private messages and can only initiate a conversation once a fan has left a post on the pages wall.