iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus remained the world’s most popular smartphones in the second quarter, ahead of Samsung’s newer Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+, according to market research firm Strategy Analytics. Apple shipped an estimated 16.9 million iPhone 7 units and 15.1 million iPhone 7 Plus units worldwide in the quarter, whoch corresponds with April through June, according to the firm’s latest Smartphone Model Tracker report. ”iPhone 7 remains the world’s most popular smartphone model overall, due to a compelling blend of user-friendly design, extensive supporting apps, and widespread retail presence for the device,” said Juha Winter, Senior Analyst at Strategy Analytics.

China has launched a digital ”cyber-court” to help deal with a rise in the number of internet-related claims, according to state media.The Hangzhou Internet Court opened on Friday and heard its first case – a copyright infringement dispute between an online writer and a web company.Legal agents in Hangzhou and Beijing accessed the court via their computers and the trial lasted 20 minutes.The court’s focus will be civil cases, including online shopping disputes.Judges were sworn in and the first case was presented on a large screen in the courtroom.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc is testing a feature in the Facebook News Feed that provides customized links to news on topics of interest to individual users, as the company continues to search for ways to increase the amount of time that people spend using the world’s largest social media network.The offering, called ”Featured Topic,” is being tested on News Feed, the core of Facebook. Each selected item includes a couple of sentences of text on a subject, a link to a news story and a photo, according to an example seen by Reuters on Thursday.Facebook confirmed that the feature was in testing and said it was designed to help people discover stories that might be relevant to them.The company makes frequent changes to the News Feed, typically testing potential features at length before making them official.

It has been a little more than a week since Kenyans took to the ballot to elect their representatives and leaders for the next five years. On Friday evening, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission declared President Uhuru Kenyatta the winner of the presidential race. Friday night ushered a tense weekend of protests and riots, particularly in the opposition strongholds.Media reports were scant and left many yearning for updates. As the weekend wore on, it became clear that all was not well in Kenya. The opposition coalition, in a press statement on Saturday, claimed that 100 people had been killed by police officers in the post election violence, while the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights placed the number at 24.

MUNICH (Reuters) – A German court ruled on Thursday that ad-blocking software by vendor Eyeo was legal, dealing a blow to media groups ProSiebenSat.1, RTL and Sueddeutsche Zeitung, who had sought to ban it.Cologne-based Eyeo serves the fast-growing market for software to block internet advertising that many users find intrusive or interferes with their use of websites.It provides software to block all ads but then offers publishers the chance to join a ”white list” to enable ads to be shown on their sites.In most cases, being added to the white list is free subject to a check that the advertising is acceptable, but media groups object to the fact that Eyeo takes a share of the extra revenues the biggest advertisers make.

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese authorities have issued a warning to the country’s top e-commerce platforms, including Alibaba Holding Group Ltd’s (BABA.N) Taobao.com, over the sale of illegal virtual private networks that allow users to skirt state censorship controls.Five websites have been asked to carry out immediate ”self-examination and correction” to remove vendors that sell illegal virtual private networks (VPNs), according to a notice posted by the Zhejiang provincial branch of the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), China’s top cyber regulator.Some of them were ordered to halt new user registrations, suspend services and punish accountable staff.