Facebook will be required to get user consent for certain changes to privacy settings as part of a settlement of federal charges that it deceived consumers and forced them to share more personal information than they intended.
Researchers at Dartmouth have proposed a software that quantifies the extent of how much pictures have been digitally altered by programs such as Adobe Photoshop.
A Brazilian ad agency has teamed with a condom distributor to target young males on Facebook by creating unexpected babies profiles.
Google Maps has been helping people find the nearest train station or Starbucks for several years. Now, it can help you find the nearest restroom at an airport or the men's department at Macy's.
The Iron Lady, The Artist take top honors.
Zynga Inc embarks on a road show to promote its initial public offering next Monday, two sources familiar with the matter said, the latest dotcom name to try and whet investors' appetites.
Facebook has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived customers into believing personal information was private when in fact it was public, the commission announced Tuesday.
Dallas Cowboys cheerleader Melissa Kellerman's Twitter account has been reactivated, but is now locked, after reports said the team forced her to delete her account after the Cowboys 20-19 win over the Miami Dolphins on Thanksgiving.
Emma Sullivan will no longer have to apologize to Gov. Brownback. Instead, the governor has issued his own apology, saying his office over-reacted, and the school district is similarly backing down. As Sullivan returns to school, analysts say the Twitter battle shows a widening divide between government officials and social media as technology evolves.
U.S. computer software company SAS Institute cannot claim copyright protection for the functions performed by its programs, which have been replicated by a rival, an adviser to Europe's highest court said.
Facebook, the world's largest Internet social network, is preparing for an initial public stock offering next year, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Apple Inc. has released the beta of iOS 5.1, the upgraded version of its newest mobile operating system, to developers; iOS 5 was similarly released, a month ago. Questions are being asked if the forthcoming version of the operating system will be free from the bugs that plagued its predecessors. It is also interesting to note that Apple went straight to a 5.1 version, skipping iOS 5.0.2.
Cyber Monday was on course to set another record for retail sales on Monday, as the strong start to the holiday shopping season continued online.
Facebook, the world's largest Internet social network, is preparing for a initial public stock offering next year, according to a source familiar with the matter.
It can call people for you on the fly and remind you when your father's birthday is, but Siri is much more than that. Now, a developer cracked a code to make Siri start his car for him. And stop, lock and unlock the vehicle.
Facebook Inc is looking to go public between April and June 2012 with a valuation of over $100 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
S&P cut the credit rating of the Los Gatos, Calif.-based company to BB- from BB. Its outlook remains stable.
Instead of speculating how much retouching a cover model has received, secretive in most magazines and ad agencies, a computer science duo figured out a way to quantify the level of manipulation.
Emma Sullivan, avoid punishment for tweeting that Kansas Governor Sam Brownback sucked last week, will . Brownback apologized Monday and said his staff overreacted after her public school district said it would not pursue punishment for the teen's words.
One in 10 Internet users plan to buy holiday gifts at either Groupon or LivingSocial this year, up from 4 percent last year.
The European Commission aims to regulate the way Facebook gathers information about its 800 million users and sells it to advertisers. Facebook won't go down without a fight.
Intuit Inc.'s (NASDAQ: INTU) TurboTax Desktop software is now available, as expected by Jefferies. The brokerage said prices and stock-keeping units of Intuit software are unchanged from last year.
