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Papa John's Pizza, amid much Twitter outrage, fired a cashier at one of its New York City locations and apologized via social media to an Asian-American customer for a receipt that used a racial slur to identify her on Friday.

A computer worm has stolen more than 45,000 Facebook login credentials, leaving users wonder how they can protect their accounts and personal info from future cyber attacks.

Apple (AAPL), according to one stock reviewer, is that rare tech stock you can buy for your child's college fund, and in 10 years you'll be glad you did.

European film subscription service Lovefilm has signed deals to give its members access to past BBC and ITV television shows including Doctor Who and Prime Suspect, it said ahead of an expected imminent launch of rival Netflix in Britain.

It's no surprise that Chad Ochocinco, the man who tweets his every move while on the run, made a public comment via Twitter about allegations swirling that he is cheating forcing fiancé Evelyn Lozada to pause the wedding. In response to a fan who asked whether or not Basketball Wives star Lozada postponed the wedding to the NFL player, Ochocinco said the couple was buffering.

Login credentials of 45,000 Facebook users have been leaked out worldwide by the Ramnit malignant code which has invaded the world's No. 1 social network service. The biggest victims were users from the UK and France. The intrusion and theft were discovered by 'Seculert', a cyber threat management service.

Seculert said Ramnit has recently started targeting user accounts at Facebook, the world's largest social network with some 800 million users. Ramnit has apparently taken sensitive login details from 45,000 Facebook users throughout the world -- with most in Europe.

A mother killed her one-year-old daughter, by drowning her in a bucket of water, during a Skype Call while her boyfriend watched the incident live.

A computer worm dubbed Ramnit is believed to have stolen about 45,000 Facebook login credentials, a digital security firm has warned. The stolen data have been taken largely from Facebook accounts in UK and France, the security firm Seculert said.

Reddit.com, the wildly-popular online community, received 2.07 billion pageviews in December 2011 alone, capping a year in which the site's traffic doubled the hits it received in 2010.

Online game developer Zynga Inc is releasing a new mobile word game called Scramble with Friends on Thursday to expand its user base beyond Facebook and catch up with rivals in the handheld market.

A video of a basketball game between Connell and Highland High in Washington went viral on YouTube, and turned number 34 on Connell, Cole Vanderbilt, into the ire of the internet.

British youngsters adopted after abusive childhoods are at risk of fresh emotional turmoil as some birth parents turn to Facebook and other social networking sites to track them down, adoption agencies said on Thursday.

Kanye West took to Twitter to ramble about his fashion line, creative genius, grammatical correctness and the penitentiary system.

Google's patent portfolio just got stronger. The software corporation managed to acquire over 200 patents from IBM Corp.

Text-messaging has long been a big-time profit generator for U.S. mobile operators, but they now risk losing these profits as consumers find cheaper ways to communicate.

Network equipment maker Cisco Systems has decided to pull the plug on umi, a home video conferencing system it once touted as a quality alternative to popular video chat service Skype -- as it continues with its restructuring plans.

More than 10 million Facebook users play glitzy Diamond Dash each month, according to developer Wooga, making it one of the most popular games on the social networking site.

Yahoo elected Scott Thompson, president of PayPal, as its new CEO, four months after ousting Carol Bartz as CEO and hiring investment bankers for a turnaround.

Actress Ellen Barkin went on a Twitter rant early New Year's Day, claiming that she had been pushed by an NYPD officer just for walking down the street to her West Village townhouse in the midst of an Occupy Wall Street protest.

More than 10 million Facebook users play glitzy Diamond Dash each month, according to developer Wooga, making it one of the most popular games on the social networking site.