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Country duo Burns & Poe are not taking today's high unemployment and lack of government action sitting down. They are standing tall and belting out a tune to Washington politicians, telling them, I Need A Job.

Facebook has grabbed a lot of attention lately with efforts to combat its new competitor Google+, which has the potential to steal the ground that the social networking giant holds with a user base of 750 millions.

Spotify announced its partnership with Facebook at f8, and one day later, announced it would remove its invite-only process and open registration up to the public. Users get six free months of the service when they sign up.

Facebook will roll out its new Timeline feature over the coming weeks, but luckily there's a way to preview Timeline before anyone else. In eight simple steps that take less than five minutes, you can be first friend on the block with Timeline.

Facebook has teamed up with Yahoo, The Washington Post Co. and News Corp. to deliver more personalized news. With the ability to share news with friends like never before, where does this leave Google News?

Facebook unveiled new ways for users to listen to music and watch TV, offering tie-ups with the likes of Spotify and Hulu, as it attempts to make media an integral part of its social networking service.

The SNL actor appeared on stage in his best Zuckerberg attire.

Singer Tony Bennett has apologized for his controversial comments on a radio show about 9/11 attacks.

The hottest social networks seem quite busy these days -- providing a lot for millions of users around the world to digest. Just this week, Google+, Google's new social network, opened to the general public for sign-up and while making several site changes. Now, Facebook is launching a major design overhaul new features -- some similar to those introduced recently by Google+.

Stock index futures fell on Friday as talk of a Greece default gained pace and a day after markets spiraled downward on deepening worries about global economic stagnation.

With the latest bevy of features announced at the annual f8 developers’ conference, Facebook will no longer remain merely a social networking site, rather it will penetrate more into the lives of its users and transform itself in to an entertainment hub.

Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Friday after steep declines the previous session, with futures for the S&P 500, the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq 100 up by between 0.6 and 0.8 percent.

Thursday's Facebook festivities included an appearance from SNL's Andy Samberg.

New Jersey Transit service was back on track at around 4:30 p.m. on Thursday after a power failure snarled the morning commute.

Spanish speakers now have an online travel community of their own with “Aprendi,” created by American Airlines.

Users overwhelmingly dislike the Facebook changes like the new news feed and ticker.

Facebook's newest feature is a radical change to its profile pages. Now, users can scroll through each other's entire life stories.

Tabloid rumors are being taken more seriously than usual

Facebook will hold its annual developer conference on Thursday, which is called the biggest F8 in history. And it is expected to add more functions and features on the world's largest social network site.

A Facebook employee took to Twitter on the eve of the f8 developers conference, announcing his love for Facebook's new music service, which allows users to join others when they listen to music.

In April, Amazon announced that it will support borrowing e-books from local libraries. Now it has come true - Kindle books are available at 11,000 libraries in the U.S.