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With over 500 million active users spending an average of 700 billion minutes per month on Facebook, there is no doubt as to why brands and retailers are turning towards Social Shopping on the popular networking site as a means to promote trade and branding.

ThinkEquity has listed out its leading internet stock picks for 2011 that includes Google (GOOG), Baidu (BIDU) and Priceline (PCLN). Following are those stocks.

Google said it bought a new office building in New York, in a deal reportedly for $1.77 billion.

A recent survey from Zogby International says the majority of Americans think high-speed internet was the most impactful technological innovation of the last 10 years.

Apple Inc has joined a growing number of U.S. companies that have severed ties with WikiLeaks, removing an application from its online store that gave users access to the controversial website's content.

After Pennsylvania case, Google again stumbles over another privacy issue as it’s Street View cameras captured the image of a Japanese woman’s underwear, said a report in Mainichi Daily.

Apple Inc has joined a growing number of U.S. companies that have severed ties with WikiLeaks, removing an application from its online store that gave users access to the controversial website's content.

Internet connectivity in Pakistan is as low as 10 percent but opportunities for growth are evident, a team of Google and YouTube officials who visited the country early this month said in a blog post.

Google Inc's Internet search algorithm is the technology world's equivalent of the Coca-Cola formula: a top-secret corporate crown jewel.

After Google now Paul Adams is all set to join Facebook in the New Year, said a twitter post by Paul Adams.

The People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of China’s ruling Communist Party, this week officially launched goso.cn, a Chinese search engine as China’s state media seeks greater influence on the Internet.

Santa Google has extended its free US and Canada VoIP calls service through Gmail to 2011.

Internet search engine Google Inc is hiring people to fill over 70 vacant positions in India in different areas to meet its business requirements.

Internet search engine Google Inc raced ahead of consulting firm McKinsey as India’s most preferred employer in business schools in 2010, according to a study by The Nielsen Company.

Google is in talks with smaller players in the online discount coupon market after Groupon turned down the web giant's $6 billion buyout offer, the New York Post said, citing a source close to the situation.

With dwindling market share for Symbian and growing smartphone competition may force Nokia to adopt either Google's Android Operating System or Windows Phone 7 in a bid to regain its lost marketshare in the smartphone space.

After being crowned Time Person of the Year Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in China and is reported to have visited China's top search engine, Baidu's office.

Google Inc., the company known for innovation, has stumbled in what was to be its main offering this holiday season. It has asked several of its partners to delay their rollouts of Google TV so that the company can further refine it.

Google Inc has asked some manufacturers to delay the launch of TV sets based on the internet company's software, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people briefed on the company's plans.

Google Inc has told the Connecticut attorney general's office that it will not comply with its requests for information about its Street View cars collecting personal information.

The U.S. Department of Commerce has unveiled its recommendations for improving online privacy practices, and has called for a privacy bill of rights that would help regulate the way personal data is used.

Yahoo is planning to shut several of its web properties, including Delicious, Yahoo Buzz, MyBlogLog, AltaVista, AllTheWeb.com and Yahoo Picks, as part of its restructuring efforts to save costs and exit unprofitable ventures.

After Google Maps, Google Places and Google Earth, and a host of other ground-breaking products and apps, the Internet giant has now soft-launched the ‘Google Body Browser’, which tech analysts say is the Google Earth of the human body.

The company gets $200 million from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to raise its total valuation to $3.7 billion

News Corp's social networking site MySpace and Google Inc have reached a multiyear search and advertising agreement, ending months of uncertainty surrounding the partnership.

Photographer Thomas Hawk suggested Bartz to settle for a salary of $1 a year for her failure to catch up with rivals like Google, Apple and Microsoft. Yet, he has asked her to use Flickr more as a social networking tool like Facebook.

After being voted 'Person of the Year' by Time magazine Mark Zukerberg's brainchild Facebook is expected to post $2 billion in revenue for the year 2010.

The company introduces speech recognition to Android 2.2 phones, which can recognize the user's phone and understand their specific dialect.

Benchmark Capital raised its profit estimates and price target on Google Inc., citing the company's strong operating momentum in search business.