Querrey puts U.S. level with Serbia in Davis Cup
By Matt and Cronin BOISE, Idaho (Reuters) – Top American Sam Querrey picked a good time to pull off his first five-set Davis Cup victory when he stopped Victor Troicki 7-6 3-6 4-6 6-1 6-4 to level the United States’ tie against Serbia 1-1.
Querrey’s victory boosted the hosts after world number one Novak Djokovic earlier raced past John Isner 7-6 6-2 7-5.
Tennis-Querrey puts U.S. level with Serbia in Davis Cup
By Matt and Cronin BOISE, Idaho, April 5 (Reuters) – Top American Sam Querrey picked a good time to pull off his first five-set Davis Cup victory when he stopped Victor Troicki 7-6 3-6 4-6 6-1 6-4 to level the United States’ tie against Serbia 1-1.
Querrey’s victory boosted the hosts after world number one Novak Djokovic earlier raced past John Isner 7-6 6-2 7-5.
Twitter reinstates British journalist after outcry
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc reinstated a British journalist’s account on Tuesday after an outcry over his suspension for posting an NBC-Universal executive’s email address on the service threatened to tarnish the company’s reputation.
Twitter banned Guy Adams, a Los Angeles correspondent for The Independent newspaper, on Monday after he tweeted the work email address of NBC’s Olympics division president Gary Zenkel.
Twitter suspends reporter’s account for NBC tweet
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter Inc and NBC Universal’s move to suppress a British reporter’s tweets related to the network’s Olympics coverage may have backfired after the incident became fodder for Twitter chatter around the world on Monday.
The microblogging service suspended Guy Adams, the Los Angeles correspondent for London-based daily The Independent, after he sent a tweet on Friday revealing NBC Olympics President Gary Zenkel’s email address.
George Zimmerman interrogation video part of newly-released discovery documents
New discovery evidence has been released by the Florida State Attorney’s Office in the George Zimmerman criminal trial.
The new evidence released on Tuesday included a dossier that, among other things, contains a “computer voice stress test” in which a computer monitored Zimmerman’s voice during a special question-and-answer session on the late February shooting of unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin.
Facebook publishes new data on users in amended S-1 filing
In an amended S-1 form filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, Facebook provided updated figures about its user base, and new information on its acquisition of mobile photo app Instagram.
Here are some of the highlights from the filing:
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Facebook says it has 901 million active users. Based on a rounded world population of 6.8 billion people, this breaks down to about 1.3 Facebook accounts for every 10 people on the planet.
Facebook says it serves 3.2 billion “likes” and comments daily.
Facebook says it hosts 300 million photo uploads every day.
There are 125 billion established friendships on the social network.
It was widely reported that Facebook would choose NASDAQ for its listing. This was confirmed in the amended filing, with Facebook proposing “FB” as its market symbol.
Additionally, the filing dove into the acquisition of Instagram:


