SOCIAL NETWORKS

Many teens prefer to communicate on mobile messaging apps like WhatsApp and Snapchat, and Facebook has noticed.

It will be a little while before small investors can tap Twitter, but that isn’t stopping people from wondering if it's a smart investment.

Social media spam grew by 355 percent for the first half of 2013, according to a new report from the security-tech company Nexgate.

The world's first "Instagram hotel," Sydney's 1888 Hotel, offers a free night stay to anyone with more than 10,000 followers.

International Business Times offers the top 5 cross-platform messaging app alternatives to text (SMS) messaging, available for mobile and desktop devices, in light of BlackBerry's failure to introduce BlackBerry Messenger as promised.

Facebook and other media outlets will be available in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, but most Chinese Internet users will not and should not hope to benefit.

In an age when people share a wealth of information online, insurance adjusters are watching and taking notes.

Nero plans to rival tech giants Apple and Google in cloud computing by syncing devices in a new way.

Solving an age-old problem for wine drinkers, a new company has raised $900K to expand its wine discovery app.

A three-year-old report shows how the conversation around digital privacy has been elevated since Snowden's leaks.

Marriott has moved beyond social media and into the realms of virtual gaming with an industry-first app called Xplor.

As Facebook’s first chief marketing officer, Gary Briggs will be in charge of the social-networking giant’s branding and marketing initiatives.

China is known for its restrictions online. Now, a private social media site is self-enforcing a restriction on political conversations.

A petition is calling on LinkedIn Corp. to strengthen its blocking features and allow users to better protect themselves from stalkers.

Facebook is hosting a mystery event Thursday: expect it to be a release of video features for Instagram.

In response to leaks about secret NSA surveillance programs like PRISM, Mozilla launched a campaign called StopWatching.US that calls for greater transparency about the programs.

A photo of a woman in a red dress being sprayed with tear gas during the protests in Turkey has gone viral on social media networks.

The pink equal sign campaign went viral on Facebook and Twitter among gay-marriage supporters, but some critics saw it as empty slacktivism.

Business networking site LinkedIn was down on Wednesday morning, with the company telling its users to "sit tight" as its team needed to "clean things up."

A new study by the Pew Research Center found that public opinion on Twitter is often significantly out of step with public opinion among the general population.

The state-run Xinhua News released a report acknowledging self-immolations across the nation -- but not in Tibet.