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Has Facebook, the No. 1 global social media site now seeking to go public, overlooked women, who constitute more than half of its 845 million members?

Russia's Kaspersky Lab reported that sales growth slowed substantially last year as the world's No. 4 maker of anti-virus software said its business was starting to mature.

A young African-American man in Atlanta was ambushed and brutally beaten by members of a local gang for appearing to be gay. The assault took place on Feb. 4 and police were able to obtain footage of the attack from a nearby surveillance camera as well as from a YouTube video uploaded by one of the attackers. The video, which was also posted on WorldHipHop.com website, went viral overnight.

Here's another reason for all of Android users to be jealous of the tiny percentage of people that are running Android Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0 or higher) on their phones: Google Chrome is now available on all ICS devices. The new browser will allow Google to trove data across several devices, giving them an opportunity to trove more data and increase advertising revenue.

People can increase their chances for longevity, though much is circumstantial. Below are three ways that research shows how people can max out their longevity.

An Iowa woman threatened to release so-called compromising photos of Cousin Amy if TLC did not cancel the show or pay her $10,000

The BSE Sensex ended 0.5 percent higher on Wednesday, helped by a rally in software stocks including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS.NS) and Infosys Technologies (INFY.NS) and gains in index heavyweight Reliance Industries.

Chrome, Google's most popular Web browser, is now available on Android and people, who have been fortunate enough to own an Android smartphone or tablet running on the latest Ice Cream Sandwich, will be the ones to experience the new browser and its fantastic features.

The top after-market NASDAQ gainers Tuesday were: Avid Technology, Buffalo Wild Wings, Guidance Software, Synchronoss Technologies, Cerner Corp, Glu Mobile, OpenTable, Oncothyreon, Smith Micro Software and Groupon, Inc.

When it comes to China, Facebook should consider itself forewarned. People who want to access Facebook and other blocked sites must use special VPN software to get around China's firewall to do so.

The government of Brazil has filed a lawsuit against Twitter, demanding that the firm remove accounts in the country that warn citizens of police speed traps and roadblocks.

Each day Facebook serves as a procrastination tool for students struggling to write papers, office workers stranded at their desks, and social media junkies getting their fix. But what if posting on Facebook was your job? What if users made money based on all the content they generated for the interactive Internet community? After all, Facebook wouldn’t be worth $100 billion without its dedicated fan base of Web addicts.

A hacker released the source code for antivirus firm Symantec's pcAnywhere utility on Tuesday, raising fears that others could find security holes in the product and attempt takeovers of customer computers.

For many Facebook users, it's hard to understand how someone could waste so much time building a fictional farm or organized crime family on either of Zynga's social media games Farmville and Mafia Wars. What may be even more difficult to understand is how one Mafia Wars player allegedly spent $100,000 on the game.

Anonymous hackers tried to blackmail tech company Symantec for $50,000 in January, and when Symantec failed to pay up, source codes for Symantec's software were released online, Reuters reported. Symantec's pcAnywhere and Norton Anti-virus software source code was published in a 1.27 GB Pirate Bay dump Feb. 6 after e-mail negotiations with a hacker calling himself YamaTough broke down.

Google finally launched its homemade Chrome browser for mobile devices Feb. 7, and the second most popular Web browser is now available in the Android Market for smartphones and tablets running Android 4.0. That's because Google says this is a beta launch, and once all the bugs are worked out, Chrome for Android will be available for other Android versions. For now, that means it's ready for only the Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S smartphones and Motorola Xoom and Asus Transformer Prime tablets...

Police in the German state of Lower-Saxony will soon use their networks of Facebook friends to find missing persons and hunt out suspected criminals, according to the state's interior minister.

Oracle, the No. 1 database developer, rejected a $272 million settlement from German arch-rival SAP over alleged infringement of intellectual property.

U.S. social media group Facebook seems ready to publish categories of data it collects from users, an Austrian student group lobbying for stricter privacy rules said on Tuesday.

All app developers have to follow a rigorous screening process before their apps are released in the Apple App Store. And now, Apple is all set to crackdown on app developers who use shady means to increase the visibility of their apps.

Have you ever posted some photos on the Facebook, but later you may have regretted doing so and may have deleted them? But hold your breath - some deleted Facebook photos can still be accessible via a direct link.