Millennials, ages 18 to 34, tend to view Snowden as a champion of privacy. They see his actions as basically benign, and lean toward thinking that what he did is unlikely to undermine efforts to stop terrorist groups from striking in the West.

U.S. News reported exclusively that 64 percent of Americans of all ages surveyed hold a negative opinion of Snowden and 36 percent a positive one — of these, 8 percent are very positive.

"I believe the timing is now right for me to leave as CEO and let Mark lead the company into its next chapter given his passion for the founding vision and his ability to couple our mobile progress with Zynga's unique strengths," Mattrick said in a statement.

Following Mattrick's announcement Wednesday, the company's shares fell more than 9 percent to $2.63. The company's shares have fallen more than 30 percent in the past year.

The company's investors haven't returned to their early enthusiasm that pegged the company's value as high as $20 billion shortly after its initial public offering in 2011.

The bill was championed by West Virginia's Senate president, Bill Cole, who is an auto dealer in his home state and Kentucky.

"Despite a campaign based on pro-business and free market principles, the Senate president's bill prevents competition and protects the car dealer monopoly," Tesla said in a statement. "West Virginians deserve the right to choose how and from whom they purchase their vehicles. We will return next year to fight for consumer choice and free market access."

GoDaddy has had a successful launch at the New Stock Exchange on Wednesday morning with shares jumping more than 30 per cent, valuing the company at around $6bn.

GoDaddy lost $143m last year and $622m in the past three years. While the company claims it is confident that Google's move into the domain name space will not impact it too much, it did delay the IPO in order to see what the search giant was intending, indicating that it knows it is in a potentially weak position.

After 22 seasons at the helm of Top Gear, the BBC has decided not to renew Jeremy Clarkson’s contract. Effectively fired because of a “fracas” between himself and a producer.

It’s not clear if Clarkson’s co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May, who weren’t involved in the melee, will be back next season.

Richard Hammond and James May, the other two Top Gear presenters, are wonderful entertainers. But, like all great ensemble casts, the three of them are immeasurably better together. Take any one of them away and the whole will be worse.

According to a report from 9to5Mac, the company will soon begin offering money for Android phones as well, incentivizing some of the platform switchers that Apple talks about during its product events and earnings calls.

Apple would give $35 for a working and relatively pristine unlocked 32GB iPhone 4S, but a look at completed eBay listings shows those phones going for between three and four times that amount (minus whatever fees the service charges).

CCTV cameras should be installed by homeowners and businesses to help detectives solve crimes in the age of austerity, Britain’s most senior policeman has said.

When the Metropolitan Police Commissioner was asked if business and home owners needed to make greater use of CCTV cameras he said yes, adding: “We’ve got a strategy to encourage people, with their cameras, is to move them down to eye level.”

Brian Dowling, director of production, calls it "the dog kennel of the future." The two-room doghouse is rounded with a see-through front wall, giving it a retro-futuristic look. A paw-and-bones design decorates the inside walls. There are lots of soft pillowy parts to nap on.

According to the International Business Times, the Dream Doghouse comes with a £20,000 price tag. That's about $30,475 or AU$39,000.

After coming under intense pressure PayPal has closed the account of cloud-storage service Mega. According to the company, SOPA proponent Senator Patrick Leahy personally pressured Visa and Mastercard who in turn called on PayPal to terminate the account. Bizarrely, Mega's encryption is being cited as a key problem.

“MEGA has demonstrated that it is as compliant with its legal obligations as USA cloud storage services operated by Google, Microsoft, Apple, Dropbox, Box, Spideroak etc, but PayPal has advised that MEGA’s ‘unique encryption model’ presents an insurmountable difficulty,” Mega explains.

Leonard Nimoy, the actor behind one of pop culture’s most famous and distinctive fictional characters, the half-human, half-alien Mr. Spock in the “Star Trek” television series and films, has died.

“A life is like a garden,” Nimoy said on Twitter on Feb. 23. “Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP.” The abbreviation stands for “live long and prosper,” a Vulcan greeting.