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Facebook isn’t even trading yet but Rapid Ratings, a New York firm with an unusual risk-analysis model, rates the social networking company's stock as highly as that of technology stars Intel, Apple, Microsoft and Google.

Madonna has vowed to defy the new St. Petersburg law against homosexual propaganda on her upcoming concert in President-elect Vladimir Putin's hometown in Russia in August.

Monster Worldwide Inc is open to selling all or part of itself and expects to have data ready for potential buyers fairly soon, Chief Executive Sal Iannuzzi said in an interview.

Lawmakers sent letters on Thursday requesting information from more than 30 popular iPhone applications developers as part of an inquiry into how software companies collect private consumer data.

Singer Whitney Houston’s official cause of death was announced on Thursday, over one month after the 48-year-old was found dead in the bath tub of a Beverly Hilton Hotel bathroom. The Los Angeles coroner stated that Houston died of accidental drowning, with contributing factors of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine in her system.

Facebook has acquired hundreds of patents from International Business Machines Corp as the social networking company attempts to bolster its intellectual property portfolio in the wake of a lawsuit filed by Yahoo.

Marine Corps sergeant Gary Stein faces a possible discharge after starting a Facebook page openly condemning President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

The Mass Effect series is one of the best games ever made, and we are not afraid to come out and say that with a serious face. The epic story of Commander Shepard and his team on the mission to save the Galaxy from the Reapers destruction is well known among gamers and non-gamers alike. The latest in the franchise, Mass Effect 3, came out on March 6 for the Xbox 360, PS3, and PC ahead of great reviews, but there was an underlining problem that blew up so big, it could force the developers (Biowa...

Last Friday, 15-year-old Sierra LaMar disappeared from the driveway of her home and was never seen again. Her cell phone was discovered on the side of the road.

Whitney Houston is the latest celebrity whose addiction to prescription pills ended in an untimely demise. On Tuesday, reps for Mike The Situation Sorrentino quickly refuted claims from TMZ that the reality star had checked into rehab, but last night the Situation took to his Facebook page to set the record straight.

A teenage girl has become an Internet cult sensation not because of her singing talents or her amazing dance moves, but because she resembles a living doll - complete with huge eyes, porcelain skin and white-blonde hair. Venus Angelic, as she is known online, is a 15-year-old girl who is gaining enormous popularity on the Internet for her YouTube tutorials on how to look like a living doll.

Yesterday it was announced that Jessica Biel will be gracing the screen in the 2013 film Alfred Hitchcock and the making of 'Psycho.' Biel, 30, has been cast alongside an already outstanding cast of Scarlett Johansson, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and Toni Collette.

iPhoto, which Apple released along with the new iPad earlier this month, is an instant hit. The newly launched app has got one million users a little over a week after being available on the App Store, reports The Loop. And the number represents only the unique users, not just downloads, the blog adds.

Luxury fashion label Burberry has surpassed previous fashion leader Dior as the number one fashion label on Facebook with the highest number of Facebook likes.

Zynga Inc is buying OMGPOP, maker of the popular video game Draw Something for about $200 million in its biggest acquisition to date as the company moves to expand its lineup of games on mobile devices and Facebook.

How many friends do you have on Facebook? If the answer is a lot, a new study says you might be a narcissist.

Not all fans are showing Michael Bay the TMNT love.

Zynga Inc is buying OMGPOP, maker of the popular game Draw Something for an undisclosed sum, as the company moves to expand its games lineup on mobile devices and Facebook.

A Malaysian shoe boutique has developed a novel approach to dating for shoe enthusiasts everywhere: pair women who love shoes with men who would love to buy it for them.

Elizabeth Banks has an interesting costume wardrobe.

The Million Hoodie March will take over New York City's Union Square Wednesday night in a massive protest over the handling of the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin three weeks ago on the streets of a gated Florida community.

Controversial artist Jon McNaughton release a new painting, “One Nation Under Socialism,” of President Obama holding a burning Constitution to represent his recognition of what is happening [to the Constitution] as it goes up [in flames].

Electronic Arts and ESPN announced on Wednesday the 32 players selected by fans that will be entered in the EA Sports Madden NFL 12 Cover Vote contest to choose the player featured on the game cover.

Perhaps more than any other professional athlete, NFL athletes have a lot to gain from effectively using social media.

Seagate has become the first hard drive manufacturer to pack 1 terabit - one trillion bits - into a single square inch, a remarkable milestone that will lead to hard drives as large as 60TB within the next decade.

Beats Electronics, majority-owned by HTC, is close to acquiring digital music subscription service MOG for an undisclosed sum, according to an anonymous source familiar with the matter.

Anonymous Hispano, the Mexican branch of the online hacktivist collective based in Latin America lay siege to two Mexican websites on Tue, March 20 in protest of Pope Benedict XVI's upcoming visit in an cyber-operation referred to as #opFariseo (hypocrite) on Twitter. The hackers succeeded in temporarily knocking the websites offline and defacing them with their own message: Hacked system. The POPE is not welcome, out out!!!!!

Travel, that most social of pursuits, has always been wise to the Web. But reaping quantifiable rewards from the social web is proving as elusive for travel brands and booking engines as it is for most other industry sectors.

Mobile phone users in China have got in their basket of offerings two much-awaited smartphones. Japanese phone manufacturer Sony has just announced the upcoming availability of its first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich smartphone, Sony Xperia neo L MT25i. And Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation has made available its HTC Eternity from today, the first Windows Phone device to officially reach the country.