Apple has been hosting its annual iTunes Festival since 2007, pairing music veterans with emerging artists for 30 nights in London. The company announced today that 21 more acts have been…
Beats Music and iTunes Radio, as well as other music streaming services, might take a hit from revised rules and regulations for music royalty rates. The U.S. Department of Justice…
Austrian law student and privacy advocate Max Schrems filed a class action suit against Facebook for violating European privacy laws by sharing private user data. Schrems alleges that Facebook’s data policy…
Twitter’s latest transparency report shows that the number of requests for user information, with the most requests coming from the U.S. government. The micro-blogging site released its fifth transparency report…
Facebook Inc said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dropped its probe into the social networking company over events surrounding its controversial initial public offering. In its quarterly report filed…
Twitter acknowledged that it has been hiring too many white and Asian men to fill high-paying technology jobs, just like several other major companies in Silicon Valley. The lack of…
Facebook has finally come out with its quietly tested, long awaited iPhone app, Mentions, now available for download. But if you want to get any use out of it, get famous…
Social networking has become not only a pastime but a tool with which to document one’s life. It is possible today to relive memories just by scrolling down a webpage….
Whether it’s athletic or bookish, free-spirited or conservative, people have a “type.” This is not a revelation; it’s common knowledge in the dating sphere. For years, Match.com has been able to match…
A tweet containing computer code has started propagating itself through Twitter by taking advantage of a security flaw in Twitter’s TweetDeck application. In response, Twitter shut down the application’s access…
Google is buying Skybox Imaging in a deal that could serve as a launching pad for the Internet company to send its own fleet of satellites to take aerial pictures…
A New York federal appeals court says the creation of a full-text searchable database of millions of books is a fair use of copyrighted works. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court…
Yahoo said it will discontinue third party logins, like Facebook and Google, for its photo sharing service Flickr, instead requiring everyone to have a Yahoo ID. Users can expect to…
Tinder launched a new ephemeral photo feature Thursday, similar to Snapchat, called Moments that will help users get to know each other better. Moments is designed to help users who…
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton said that he is still “numb” from the Facebook deal and is trying to come to terms with his new life as a billionaire. Acton, one…
