A Labour aide shocked Britain when he made some remarks on Twitter about the Queen "scrounging benefits" off taxpayer's money.

Matt Zarb-Cousin, a researcher for shadow justice minister Andy...

People visit social networking sites like Facebook for reasons including the positive emotional experience they enjoy and want to repeat, a new study has claimed.

Measurements of physical and...

Kylie Minogue has revealed that she alerted the police after receiving threats by a follower on Twitter.

The 43-year-old was inundated with messages of support from fans after she revealed on the...

Facebook will now start showing advertisements to users on their mobile phones, according to a new report.

According to an article in the Financial Times, people using Facebook on their phones,...

A Twitter account set up in the name of the famously reclusive novelist Cormac McCarthy, fooled the likes of Jack Dorsey, co-founder of the microblogging site, before it was found to be fake.

Dorsey...

Washington (ANI): In the final three minutes of last night's Super Bowl, a new Twitter record was set for the highest amount of tweets sent per second during a sports match.

The final 180 seconds of...

Your embarrassing pictures on Facebook you thought you got rid of months or even years ago by deleting them may still be present on the social networking site, it has emerged.

Facebook has now...

It may come as a rude shock, but Facebook users should not feel surprised if tomorrow they come across their photos existing in the web world despite having deleted them personally long ago.

The...

SAN JOSE, CALIF. - On the Internet, Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. have both become superpowers. But until recently, they have often looked more like 90-pound weaklings in Washington, D.C. That is...

CAREER OPPORTUNITY: All those apps being made for smartphones, computer tablets and Facebook's online social network are helping the U.S. economy lower its unemployment rate. A study released...

But even as Facebook reinvents the way people around the world communicate, it anticipates a mountain of legal challenges which will take armies of lawyers years to...

its IPO registration filing , Facebook states its intention to run itself as a "controlled company," which exempts it from the corporate governance rules that regulators require of...

Mark Zuckerberg's tight control over Facebook is under assault from shareholders even before his social networking giant joins the public...

The Australian singer, 43, used the social-networking site to call her tormenter a "weirdo" and said she had contacted police, alerting more than a million followers to the harassment she...

Espaol (IPYS-Venezuela/IFEX) - On January 28, 2012, Alberto Rodrguez, director of online weekly newspaper 6to Poder reported that his Twitter account was attacked after he posted pictures on his...

according to a Reuters report. At first, this would seem to be the least of prospective shareholders' concerns. Among the criticisms leveled at Facebook since its filing is that the board...

Most executives claim that social media doesn't add value. As a former C-level exec, I was skeptical myself, but now I'm a believer. Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter have changed the ROI on...

Chrysler came out with a pro-Obama commercial, or a patriotic commercial?Monitor readers responded with characteristic passion, insight, and wit. We've culled more than 125 comments and grouped...

Seattle Times photo by Ellen M. Banner I'm heading out to Rainier Beach tonight to cover the top-ranked Vikings' game against O'Dea at 7 p.m. in the Metro League Tournament. The...

Follow this company owns eight other states. MapLight, a nonpartisan research group that focuses on money and politics, released that information and a database showing the top five...

Jonathan Aberman 's report examining six years of acquisitions in the Greater Washington region and Silicon Valley. But there's a lot more to this study than the nugget we included. ...

according to All Things Digital on Tuesday. The Mountain View-based professional networking company (NYSE:LNKD) declined to comment as did Rapportive...

Jive Software Inc. posted its first quarterly report as a public company Tuesday showing a 53 percent increase in fourth quarter sales. But the Palo Alto, Calif.-based social media software...

Follow this company reports higher earnings and record revenue for its latest quarter. The company, whose software is used for managing networks and improving their performance, had fiscal...

The New Mexico Spaceport Authority's board of directors has reviewed preliminary plans for visitor facilities for the site and selected locations for welcome centers. Integrity Arts &...

said today that the company's profit was $5.2 million on sales of $152.9 million for its fiscal first quarter, down 51.8 percent from a profit of $10.8 million on sales of $159.9 million during...

Bidding for the U.S. Custom House on Portland's North Park Blocks stands at $2.02 million. The online auction is slated to close shortly after midnight...

Follow this company on Tuesday said first quarter sales grew 14 percent on continued demand for its video wall technology, though its losses continue to grow. The Beaverton-based developer...

Denver Business Journal by Greg Avery, Reporter Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 3:03pm MST - Last Modified: Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 3:11pm...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc Chairman Roy Bostock and three other directors will step down as the struggling company ploughs ahead with an internal overhaul, including discussions on...

SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock and three longtime board members are stepping down, submitting to the demands of many frustrated shareholders who blame them for contributing to the...

LOS ANGELES, Feb 7 (TheWrap.com) – Junie Hoang, the actress suing the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) for revealing her age, will see her day -- and perhaps two days -- in court next year. ...

(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc is about to announce a Web video deal with Viacom Inc in what sources said was one of the last steps in a plan to launch a standalone subscription service to compete...

DEREK SCALLY in BerlinAN AUSTRIAN law student is to continue pushing Facebook to tighten its privacy regulations for European users after claiming the company’s hunger for private information...

Joseph Chen, founder, CEO, and chairman of Renren FORTUNE -- Joseph Chen chuckles a bit when asked what the hype surrounding Facebook's announced plans for an initial public offering means for...

Brazil has sued to suspend accounts of Twitter users who use tweets to warn people about radar locations, speed traps and DUI checkpoints, officials say. The attorney general of Brazil filed for a...

Photos deleted by users of Facebook have lingered on the social network's servers for nearly three years, an investigation by a U.S. tech Web site found. Web site Ars Technica found that some...

posted photos from their everyday lives . Golden's imaginings run the gamut from Uncharted Drake's family vacation at the Grand Canyon to Goro from Mortal Kombat showing off his 12-pack...

What goes through the mind of someone who trolls Facebook's RIP pages in order to leave messages like "Rot in Piss?" What sort of person does that? What do they really look like? What...

"China is a large potential market for Facebook," the company's filing said. Its population of 1.3 billion offers growth potential for Facebook like no other. And Facebook, which filed last week to...

Google has put together to help solve some of the world's greatest problems that are facing our civilization. Problems such as global warming, and other stuff of science fiction that just might...

announced . Others included fresher results, improvements to autocomplete, better spelling corrections, and auto-disabling Instant. Google also made note of a couple other significant algorithmic...

Google has shed new light on Bouncer, a security system it credits with slowing the spread of malware on its Android platform. The company said the Bouncer tool automatically scans applications on...