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The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: LCA-Vision, Keynote Systems, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, ReachLocal, and ShoreTel. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: MIPS Technologies, Broadcom, RF Micro Devices, MAKO Surgical, and DDI Corp.

Researchers have found a strong association between computer and Internet use in adolescents and engagement in multiple-risk behaviours (MRB), including illicit drug use, drunkenness and unprotected sex.

Researchers unveiled that Apple's iPhone was actively logging the whereabouts of its users, but its not just Apple's phone that's tracking you. Though the company has remained silent after Wednesday's revelations, the reason that Apple is tracking consumers simply relates to a legal statement they made on the matter nearly a year ago: advertising.

Shares of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) touched a new life-time high of $54.98 on Thursday. The company's first quarter revenue exceeded Street view boosted by growth in China, which helped offset weakness in its U.S. operations.

Apple is hitching its smartphone wagon to gaming big time, finally! Apple is letting select developers play around with an iPhone 4 which is implanted with an A5 chip rather than the A4 in order that they can bring out the full gaming prowess on the upcoming iPhone 5. If the gaming slant of the iPhone materializes it would go to prove rumors that Apple was delaying the launch for the iPhone 5 for strategic reasons and not so much because of logistical constraints.

The Law Offices of Marc S. Henzel (www.henzellaw.com) a firm focusing on shareholder litigation, is investigating the proposed buyout of TradeStation Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRAD) by Monex Group, Inc. (Tokyo Stock Exchange: 8698).

Coulomb technologies announced in a press release that the Charge Point America, a $37 million project, will be expanding into six more cities which are Baltimore, Md., Tampa, Fla., Boston, Santa Barbara, Calif., Ventura, Calif. and Santa Cruz and Calif.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is facing a suit that could cost him billions if a judge finds that the documents presented so far are genuine. So the first question is whether they are or not.

Hackers have gained access to the servers of blogging website WordPress.com, forcing site to issue a warning to users to change their passwords.

While major tech companies are on board, privacy groups say the McCain-Kerry bill falls short of their expectations.

The full text of the complaint filed by Paul Ceglia, claiming 50 percent ownership of Facebook.

Updates on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other real-time content sites could be worth more than $30 million a day, or nearly $10.9 billion a year, to advertisers, researchers say.

A memo written sixty years ago has created a minor storm as some take it as proof that the government is covering up the existence of aliens. To some, it's more interesting in the way it shows why people believe things.

Senators John McCain and John Kerry introduce a privacy bill that got mixed reactions from consumer watchdogs and major tech companies.

A businessman from upstate New York claims he owns 50 percent of Facebook -- and that Mark Zuckerberg defrauded him.

News organizations across the world were taken in -- once again -- by a hoax that was perpetrated more than 50 years ago.

While Microsoft's Bing struggles to equal Google in terms of search ads, Facebook is slowly catching up in the race.

The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Conns, Expedia, Curis, Seagate Technology, and NXP Semiconductors. The top pre-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Hercules Offshore, Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Sangamo Biosciences, Qiao Xing Universal Resources, and Costco Wholesale.

Online travel agent Expedia Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) proposes to split into two publicly traded companies: TripAdvisor and Expedia.

The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market gainers are: Expedia, Seagate Technology, Cutera, ShoreTel, and Select Comfort. The top after-market NASDAQ Stock Market losers are: Hercules Offshore, Idenix Pharmaceuticals, Sangamo Biosciences, PostRock Energy, and China-Biotics.

Mobile apps can can leach immeasurable amounts of data from personal smartphones and sell them to advertising platforms. The news about data pilfering apps is nothing new, but there is now fresh evidence that large quantum of data are passed on from smartphones to advertisers by some apps.