Gigya, a web infrastructure company, has introduced a unique solution to the mounting concern of protecting user privacy and social data: listing industry standard best practices, and approving different companies with a social privacy certification and seal.
The conflict between Twitter and Instagram proves that not all wars are bad.
Learn how to test Google's latest Easter egg trick by searching for "Festivus" in honor of "Seinfeld."
Dec. 12, 2012, or 12-12-12, was celebrated around the world as the last time the month, day and year will be the same on the Gregorian calendar for decades.
Search engine giants Google, Yahoo, Bing and more revealed their "Most Searched" of 2012, revealing the top searches of the year online.
Twitter is introducing a new photo editing and sharing service to its social network in response to a growing tension between the startup and Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) over its use of Instagram images.
Twitter has just released its 2012 year in review, revealing that President Obama and Justin Bieber have sent tweets with the most retweets over the past year.
Rovio Entertainment celebrated the third birthday of "Angry Birds" on Tuesday with a new update for its original game and an announcement about its upcoming CGI movie.
Rep. Steve Israel fears current firearms legislation lapsing in the face of a wave of 3D-printed guns from hobbyists and manufacturers.
Breakthrough research at International Business Machines has yielded chips that merge optics with electronics to speed “big data."
Musician and composer Trent Reznor is working with Interscope Records and Beats by Dre to develop a new music-streaming service known as Daisy, the Nine Inch Nails front man revealed in a profile for The New Yorker.
Gmail, Google's email platform, became a trend yet again on Twitter today when the service experienced an outage just before noon on Monday. Google was quick to address the issue, but not before some avid tweeters cracked some jokes.
Monday's Google Doodle celebrated Ada Lovelace, credited as being the world's first computer programmer.
Along with stopping Megaupload the MPAA hopes to now take down The Pirate Bay, Kat.ph, isoHunt, and other major torrent sites, almost all of which are hosted internationally.
Metallica and Sean Parker ended their feud over music-sharing as the metal band announced it would add its catalog to the popular streaming service.
Zynga (Nasdaq: ZNGA) has begun to apply with state regulators in Nevada to license its online and mobile games for real-money gambling.
A mall Santa Claus in Maine was fired after being more of a Scrooge than a St. Nick.
A new study from W3i found that microtransactions only contribute a small amount to the overall revenue of mobile games, calling into question the presumed success of freemium business models.
A little over a year since introducing the Subscribe button, Facebook decided to take a page out of Twitter's book and change the name of the feature to "Follow."
Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has unveiled its own social network, known as Socl, to allow users to create visual posts in a manner similar to Pinterest.
Six days after Apple released iTunes to the public, an update is already on its way to fix several issues with the newly redesigned multimedia platform.
Egenera is acquiring the cloud software firm Fort Technologies to expand its front-end enterprise cloud services.
Apple's iWork may not be as popular as Microsoft Office, but a new update to Apple's platform makes switching between the two platforms much easier.
Leading companies aren't living up to their potential because management isn't properly yoking technology, a new study found.
Yahoo Tuesday announced that it bought out the video chat startup OnTheAir as part of its mobile/web development talent acquisition plan.
With Apple seeding its latest iOS beta build to developers on Monday, iDevice owners can soon expect updates to Maps and Safari.
Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) has opened its messenger application to mobile users without active accounts with the popular social network, beginning with Android owners.
Just one day after announcing the iPhone 5 in 54 new countries, Apple released the iTunes Store in 56 countries around the world on Tuesday, including Russia, India and South Africa.
Several of the major Hollywood studios have petitioned Google to remove sites that make copyrighted movies available for streaming from its search results.
A leader of the BitTorrent group IMAGiNE that engaged in unauthorized online file sharing was sentenced to a 40-month prison term Nov.29, which is identified as the largest file-sharing punishment in the U.S. till date.
