Britney Spears ousts Google CEO

Move over, Google CEO Larry Page. As the oft-referenced "Queen of Pop" has been known to say - even going so far as to subhead her Google+ profile page with this very quote - "It's Britney Bitch!", reveals PCMAG.com.

That's Britney as in Britney Spears, pop singer-turned-social-media-maven who now officially takes top honours as the most-followed person on Google+ (even though Page's company built the service to begin with).

But don't count the CEO out of the running just yet. As of this article's writing, Spears leads at 767 936 followers, but Page is still within shooting range at 760 331 followers of his own.

Thousands of Indonesians jammed into a glitzy shopping mall on Friday to get hold of the first BlackBerry Bold 9790s being sold worldwide, reports AP. Fearing a riot, hundreds of police were deployed outside, tying up traffic in the heart of the capital for hours.

With a 50% discount on the $540 phone for the first 1 000 buyers, lines started forming in front of Pacific Place mall on Thursday night. By daybreak, impatient shoppers started rattling the gates.

When rumours spread that the new smartphones - commonly known as Bellagio - had already sold out, the crowd of 3 000 went crazy. Several people fainted in the crush.

NetApp's need for acquisitions to help regain $7 billion in lost market value and keep up with data-storage rival EMC may put CommVault Systems and Quantum in its sights, says Bloomberg.

NetApp has slumped 38% in 2011, almost five times more than the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, as sales fell short of analysts' estimates, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

With cash at the Sunnyvale, California-based company reaching a record this year, NetApp should now use its $4.64 billion for takeovers as revenue growth slows, said ISI Group.

As Cyber Monday arrives and debate continues about the Stop Online Piracy Act, the US government has again seized a bevy of domain names it says belong to Web sites that deal in counterfeit goods, according to Cnet.

Blog TorrentFreak ran a list of more than 130 domains it said were seized by the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security's Immigrations and Customs Enforcement division as part of "Operation in Our Sites".

TorrentFreak called the move the largest such round of seizures to date. Most of the domain names suggest sites that traffic in counterfeit clothing items. The list is also sprinkled with names that suggest digital piracy.