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A cell phone network called Free Libyana, brain child of a Libyan-American telecom executive Ousama Abushagur, is allowing rebels to communicate using a hijacked portion of the Libyana network.

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.

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.

Shares of Baidu, Inc. (BIDU) touched a new life-time high of $148.92 on Monday, after media reports that Facebook Inc. signed an agreement with the company to set up a social-networking website in China.

A federal appeals court has ruled that former classmates of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg must abide by a deal they made when they fought Zuckerberg over ownership of the idea for a social networking site.

The hacktivist group Anonymous is planning a set of sit-ins at Sony stores on April 16, in response to the company's legal actions against hacker George Hotz.

It is widely reported that Facebook has obtained a license to operate in China and most likely, the operation will be done through a joint venture with Chinese internet giant Baidu.

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

After bouncing back to the limelight with The Ellen DeGeneres Show performance, Kelly Clarkson will return to American Idol stage bolstering her media presence months ahead of the September release of her fifth studio album.

The carry trade is back and it’s the main theme in the forex market.

In the wake of the attacks by the hacker collective Anonymous on Sony and on Livejournal, more attention has been focused on just what such attacks mean and how to defend against them.

The domain registrar and web hosting firm is estimated to have won over 20000 GoDaddy customers in the aftermath of the PR crisis brought about by the viral video of the latter's CEO killing an endangered African species.

The hacker collective Anonymous seems to have changed tacks on its effort to pay back Sony, emphasizing that its members are on the side of consumers and gamers.

Support pours in for anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare from across India, an online projection of which is seen on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

Online retailers across segments are reporting a surge in sales every time a customer 'likes' a brand or talks of making a purchase.

The Department of Homeland Security will use Facebook, Twitter to send terror alerts to the public.

Although the social media has not yet exploded with the pictures and videos of the latest earthquake in Japan, a home footage of the April 7 quake has hit YouTube.

Allegations of spying on its own employees and managing to get confidential high-level information from Twitter leaked out are flying thick and fast as technology rivals are raising stakes in a bitter recruitment war.

The Department of Homeland Security is changing up its update system and is bringing terror alerts to Facebook and Twitter.

Facebook is sharing the technology it developed for making more energy-efficient data centers, in the hope that by doing so others will follow its example.