This month, the mediaME Editor has rounded-up the most shared news stories and headlines by mediaME users across social media platforms. Here are the 'most shared' stories for April 2012 which provide a summarized look-back at the month.

Qatar's telecommunications regulator ictQATAR have announced a strategic partnership with Internet company Yahoo! to develop digital media and content in the country. Yahoo! will work closely with ictQATAR to "cultivate innovation, stimulate online growth and nurture entrepreneurship". Under the terms of the agreement, Yahoo! will offer its expertise regarding digital content, multi platform applications, and digital advertising. Yahoo will also work closely with local entrepreneurs and start-ups. 

Yahoo have announced that co-founder Jerry Yang has resigned from its board of directors and is also resigning all other positions within the company including Yahoo Japan and Alibaba. “My time at Yahoo!, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding experiences of my life,” Yang wrote in a letter to chairman Roy Bostock.

The Indian government has asked popular websites including Google and Facebook to monitor and ban user generated content on their sites. According to Reuters, India's telecom minister Kapil Sibal has met with Google, Facebook and Yahoo officials in order to create monitoring mechanisms that would help in preventing ‘disparaging, inflammatory or defamatory' content from being posted online. As of Tuesday, agreements between the parties involved were not yet reached.