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Groupon defends the Tibet ad aired during Super Bowl asserting that it takes all social causes extremely seriously.

The Xperia Play makes its official debut via a Super Bowl television spot, putting an end to months of rumors.

Robert Goldberg, head of Zynga Game Network Inc., feels that it might be very difficult for Facebook to overtake Mixi in the country.

Google’s marketing executive in Egypt, Wael Ghonim, has been released by authorities according to several news reports.

Facebook film The Social Network and thriller Inception won top honors from the Writers Guild of America on Saturday in one of the last major Hollywood award shows before the Oscars later this month.

Facebook drama The Social Network won the Writers Guild honors for the best adapted screenplay while Inception upstaged favorites Black Swan and The Fighter to earn spoils for the best original screenplay.

The media artists, Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico, say they used customized software to take Facebook data and eventually create a dating website.

An anonymous tweeter has chosen to take the funny path with a spoof Twitter account called KennethColePR, to poke fun at the designer Kenneth Cole for his tweet on Cairo, Egypt.

The iPad-only digital newspaper from News Corp., The Daily, touted to usher in the age of subscription-based revenue model on the web space, has been launched by Rupert Murdoch and Apple Vice President of Internet Services Eddy Cue at a press event at New York's Guggenheim Museum.

Internet company AOL, Inc. (AOL) reported better-than-expected fourth quarter results on the top-line, with in-line earnings. Management believes that 2011 is the come back year for AOL. Jefferies & Co. reduced its price target on shares of AOL to $26 from $27, while maintaining its hold rating.

The internet is running out of IP addresses in few hours from now. The last five blocks of IP each with 16.8 million addresses, are to be distributed on Thursday by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority to regional registries around the world, according to Associated Press reports.

The Oregon Trail and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? are coming back on Facebook with a new social twist.

Sixty-nine per cent of investors say Facebook is overvalued after Goldman Sachs invested $450 million in a deal that valued the company at $50 billion, according to the quarterly poll of 1,000 Bloomberg customers who are investors, traders or analysts.

If “boarding the flight” happened to be a travelers’ last status update on Facebook before flying to any destination, now they get Facebook access even at hundreds and thousands of feet above in the air – for free.

A review conducted by two veterans in these industries in the UK finds that such focus could lead to improvements in STEM education and draw more people towards studying these subjects.

The new tablet from Dell can connect to T-Mobile’s HSPA+4G network that surely is going to give stiff competition to Samsung Galaxy Tab’s 4G LTE tablet.

A Florida woman, who has been charged with killing her two 'mouthy' teenage children, has been denied bail.

Social networking site Facebook plans to launch a third party commenting platform that could position the site as an engine behind the comments system on many high-profile blogs and digital publications.

Egypt is becoming a test case for the Internet going dark, with only one of its main service providers operating. But the lack of communications isn't stopping the protests.

Google would hire several software developers to create new applications (apps) for its Android operating system, according to a report from Wall Street Journal.

The Egyptian government has abruptly shut down Internet, the main access point that can help people communicate with the outside world. But all is not lost as a few hackers have come across a solution to the nationwide shutdown.