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CERN, the body behind the Large Hadron Collider, & the European Space Agency, along with other organizations have launched The Helix Nebula, a Europe-wide cloud computing platform.

The European Commission refers ACTA to the European Court of Justice with questions over the agreement's compliance with EU citizens' rights.

PayPal, the online payments giant, is expected to announce the creation of a further 1,000 jobs in Ireland later today. The company already employs more than 1,500 people at its European Headquarters in Blanchardstown since initially arriving in Ireland in 2003.

Google Street View has arrived in South Korea for the first time, with explorable street-level imagery available for Korea's two largest cities; Busan and Seoul.

CanvasDropr's unique image sharing site is developing fast, and this week released embeddable canvases for bloggers and website owners.

Zynga is looking for more staff for their young Dublin office, according to new jobs postings on the company's website.

Sony are preparing for the launch of PlayStation Vita in Japan next month by releasing a new PlayStation 3 system software update (v4.0) later this week. The update will allow for sharing of digital content between PS Vita and PS3.

Facebook may soon be forced by the European Commission to explicitly ask permission from its users in Europe to display targeted advertising, that's according to The Telegraph.

Irish consumer are expected to spend €257 million online this Christmas, with today, Cyber Monday, set to be the single busiest day in terms of online trade during this holiday shopping season.

The all conquering Angry Birds have taken another victory this week with the launch of their first real-world shop, in Helsinki.

Facebook and native smartphone apps are the future of gaming and media, but it is too early to tell if Google+ can succeed in this space, according SoundCloud and Wooga's CEOs.

This year Google Chrome turned three, and we were in Google's Dublin HQ to see what the Big G has in store for its browser and OS.

Apple has expanded the availability of the iTunes Store to 12 more countries in the European Union (EU). This now means that iTunes users in all 27 member states can make purchases on the digital media store.

As the release of Star Wars: The Old Republic approaches BioWare opens new offices in Ireland just to support it.

Ireland is listed at 41 in world internet speed rankings, behind other countries like Bulgaria, Poland and the United Kingdom, according to aggregated data from SpeedTests.net. Perhaps most dishearteningly, Ireland has the second lowest internet speeds among EU member states, only scoring marginally better than Luxembourg in last place.

Is Europe a hospitable place for entrepreneurs? The Sociable speaks to the founders of CanvasDropr about their experiences of creating a European tech startup.

Lightning was not responsible for the service outage which brought down Amazon's AWS cloud servers last week. A series of hardware & human errors brought down the AWS servers.

Ireland's National Heritage Council has taken to the future with the release of an iPhone app, for National Heritage Week.

Dublin's hackerspace has been around for two years and with 30 members it is one of the largest in the country, and one of a number of growing clubs in Europe and the United States

On-demand internet video streaming service Netflix has plans to expand to Europe, according to a Variety report. Variety quote "leading European film distributors" confirming Netflix's plans to introduce its service in both Spain and the UK as early as spring 2012.