A Bloomberg report said Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was successful in blocking social media platform Twitter as a response to the leaks that supported allegations of misconduct by him and his office.
President Vladimir Putin on Friday had finalized the process to incorporate the Ukrainian's Black Sea peninsula as one of its own and at the same time said in a televised political session that the country will not retaliate to the US' sanctions on the country, The Associated Press said in a report.
Company sources told Reuters that Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg were one of the many executives of top Internet companies who are set to attend a meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday over privacy, technology and intelligence issues.