SOCIAL NETWORKS

Days ahead of its official launch, Doximity -- a LinkedIn-style application for healthcare professionals -- already has backing of the venture capital community and thousands of U.S. doctors.

Days ahead of its official launch, Doximity -- a LinkedIn-style application for healthcare professionals -- already has backing of the venture capital community and thousands of U.S. doctors.

The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade on Thursday are: Williams Companies, Keycorp, Big Lots, Dow Chemical, Corning, Micron Technology, Salesforce.com, Carnival, Nvidia and Family Dollar Stores.

HTC Corp., said its first Android-based CDMA world phone - dubbed HTC Merge - is slated to hit multiple carriers based in the United States, starting spring 2011.

Craigslist (CL) has challenged a study that termed the classifieds site as “a cesspool of crime,”.

Anonymous dealt have taken down Westboro Church's websites and left a stern message to the radical religious group.

Classifieds site Craigslist has been linked with 330 crimes, 12 murders and 105 robberies or assaults in the United States last year due to anonymous interactions on the site, says a new study.

Cupertino-based Digi-Q Inc. has created a new Android app - dubbed Unfriend Watch - that notifies you when you've been unfriended on Facebook.

With upgrades to their respective search functionalities, Microsoft and Google are placing Facebook at the center of the search engine competition.

Over 17 leading galleries and museums across the world have come together to be part of Internet giant Google Inc.'s latest online venture called Art Project.

The 'Provisions on News Information Services', which was issued in 2005, states that the purpose of news websites is not to inform the public of the facts, but instead to “serve socialism” and to “safeguard the nation’s interests and the public interest.”

Anti-government protests inspired by popular revolts that toppled rulers in Tunisia and Egypt are gaining pace around the Middle East and North Africa despite political and economic concessions by nervous governments.

Digital security company Gemalto NV has developed an application that embeds Facebook on SIM cards, letting GSM phone users stay connected on the social networking site even if without data plans.

Smartphone maker HTC has rolled out two new phones - HTC ChaCha and HTC Salsa - with a dedicated Facebook button for one-touch access to the key functions of the social networking service.

Micro blogging giant Twitter is said to have held low level acquisition talks with Google Inc. and Facebook.

Is our iPhone data safe? This is the ultimate question to be answered when an iPhone or iPad or for that matter any smartphones or tablets are lost, especially when it contains our critical data like passwords.

Robert Goldberg, head of Zynga Game Network Inc., feels that it might be very difficult for Facebook to overtake Mixi in the country.

The media artists, Paolo Cirio and Alessandro Ludovico, say they used customized software to take Facebook data and eventually create a dating website.

Egypt is becoming a test case for the Internet going dark, with only one of its main service providers operating. But the lack of communications isn't stopping the protests.

Figures show how deep the malaise is.

LinkedIn Corp, whose professional networking site has 90 million users, plans to raise up to $175 million in an initial public offering, according to a regulatory filing.