A cell phone network called Free Libyana, brain child of a Libyan-American telecom executive Ousama Abushagur, is allowing rebels to communicate using a hijacked portion of the Libyana network.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 13, 2011
Updates on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other real-time content sites could be worth more than $30 million a day, or nearly $10.9 billion a year, to advertisers, researchers say.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 13, 2011
Senators John McCain and John Kerry introduce a privacy bill that got mixed reactions from consumer watchdogs and major tech companies.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 12, 2011
A businessman from upstate New York claims he owns 50 percent of Facebook -- and that Mark Zuckerberg defrauded him.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 12, 2011
Shares of Baidu, Inc. (BIDU) touched a new life-time high of $148.92 on Monday, after media reports that Facebook Inc. signed an agreement with the company to set up a social-networking website in China.
Balasubramanyam Seshan
Apr 12, 2011
A federal appeals court has ruled that former classmates of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg must abide by a deal they made when they fought Zuckerberg over ownership of the idea for a social networking site.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 11, 2011
The hacktivist group Anonymous is planning a set of sit-ins at Sony stores on April 16, in response to the company's legal actions against hacker George Hotz.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 11, 2011
It is widely reported that Facebook has obtained a license to operate in China and most likely, the operation will be done through a joint venture with Chinese internet giant Baidu.
Manikandan Raman
Apr 11, 2011
While Microsoft's Bing struggles to equal Google in terms of search ads, Facebook is slowly catching up in the race.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 11, 2011
After bouncing back to the limelight with The Ellen DeGeneres Show performance, Kelly Clarkson will return to American Idol stage bolstering her media presence months ahead of the September release of her fifth studio album.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 11, 2011
The carry trade is back and it’s the main theme in the forex market.
Hao Li
Apr 09, 2011
In the wake of the attacks by the hacker collective Anonymous on Sony and on Livejournal, more attention has been focused on just what such attacks mean and how to defend against them.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 09, 2011
The domain registrar and web hosting firm is estimated to have won over 20000 GoDaddy customers in the aftermath of the PR crisis brought about by the viral video of the latter's CEO killing an endangered African species.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 09, 2011
The hacker collective Anonymous seems to have changed tacks on its effort to pay back Sony, emphasizing that its members are on the side of consumers and gamers.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 08, 2011
Support pours in for anti-corruption crusader Anna Hazare from across India, an online projection of which is seen on social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 08, 2011
Online retailers across segments are reporting a surge in sales every time a customer 'likes' a brand or talks of making a purchase.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 08, 2011
The Department of Homeland Security will use Facebook, Twitter to send terror alerts to the public.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 08, 2011
Although the social media has not yet exploded with the pictures and videos of the latest earthquake in Japan, a home footage of the April 7 quake has hit YouTube.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 08, 2011
Allegations of spying on its own employees and managing to get confidential high-level information from Twitter leaked out are flying thick and fast as technology rivals are raising stakes in a bitter recruitment war.
Jijo Jacob
Apr 08, 2011
The Department of Homeland Security is changing up its update system and is bringing terror alerts to Facebook and Twitter.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 07, 2011
Facebook is sharing the technology it developed for making more energy-efficient data centers, in the hope that by doing so others will follow its example.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 07, 2011
Singer and the first ever American Idol, Kelly Clarkson, has succeeded in garnering a much-needed popularity boost ahead of her new album release in September - all thanks to her impressive performance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show.
IBT Staff Reporter
Apr 07, 2011