Hot to Mention – December 9, 2010

Posted by Will Hale on December 9, 2010 in Hot to Mention tagged with

Hackers Take Down Visa, PayPal, MasterCard & More

Hackers took down a number of websites in the name of WikiLeaks for several hours Wednesday, including those of Visa, Mastercard, Swiss bank PostFinance, PayPal, Senator Joe Lieberman and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. All sites appear to be up and running at this time.

Mark Zuckerberg to Donate Most of His Wealth to Charity

Following his $100 million donation to Newark Public Schools, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to give more than half his wealth to charity by signing Bill Gates’s and Warren Buffet’s “Giving Pledge.”

Twitter Explains Why #WikiLeaks Isn’t Trending

Twitter has more fully responded to numerous accusations that it has been purposely keeping #WikiLeaks and related hashtags out of its Trending Topics list.

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