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Hackers compromise AP Twitter account
Hackers compromised Twitter accounts of The Associated Press on Tuesday, sending out a false tweet about an attack at the White House. The false tweet ...
Stocks gain on earnings; fake tweet rattles market
The stock market climbed Tuesday following strong earnings across a range of U.S. industries. Coach, Lockheed Martin, DuPont and Travelers all rose ...
TV-over-Internet service Aereo expands to Boston
Aereo, the television-over-the-Internet service that is threatening the broadcast and cable TV industries, is expanding to Boston on May 15.
Correction: TV-Twitter Comedy Festival story
In a story April 21 about a comedy festival on Twitter hosted by Comedy Central, The Associated Press misidentified one of the participants. It is ...
Limping al-Qaida offshoot rearms with Twitter
Battered by a French-led military campaign in Mali, al-Qaida's North African arm is trying something new to stay relevant: Twitter. The PR campaign ...
Reuters editor charged with hacking: I was fired
A Reuters deputy social media editor accused of conspiring with hackers to deface a Los Angeles Times story said Monday he had been fired.
Spurs' Ginobili 'feeling good' day after Game 1
Gregg Popovich can rest easy. Manu Ginobili is just fine. The San Antonio Spurs' coach was concerned how Ginobili would feel following a day after his ...
CBS Twitter feeds are compromised
The Twitter accounts for two national CBS programs have been compromised and suspended. A CBS News spokeswoman confirms Saturday that tweets sent ...
Correction: Marathon Explosions-Contact story
In an April 15 story about the frantic efforts by family and friends to contact Boston marathon runners in the immediate aftermath of Monday's ...
Across America, a week of chaos, horror _ and hope
Moment after nail-biting moment, the events shoved us through a week that felt like an unremitting series of tragedies: Deadly bombs. Poison letters.
Tale of kind act after Boston blasts goes viral
A Massachusetts woman's Facebook post about the kindness of an Alaska stranger following the Boston Marathon explosions has gone viral. Runner Laura ...
Court again nixes Viacom $1B suit against YouTube
For the second time in three years, a federal judge has dismissed Viacom's $1 billion copyright lawsuit against YouTube, saying the online video site ...
Tuning in: Twitter launches music app
Twitter has launched a service that lets people find music they like and tweet songs from iTunes, Spotify and Rdio. Twitter made the app available for ...
Yahoo adds 2 more applications to mobile arsenal
Yahoo is taking the next step in its effort to make some of its most popular services more appealing and accessible to the growing audience connecting ...
LinkedIn spruces up mobile app to widen appeal
Online professional networking service LinkedIn is dressing up its mobile application to impress people who are increasingly scrolling through content ...
Amazon nears debut of original TV shows
There used to be just one way for getting shows on TV. Networks would spend tens of millions of dollars ordering scripts and shooting pilots and then ...
Defiance, tenderness, wariness in wake of Boston
A Virginia woman makes a point to get out and go jogging. A Texas mom stays in and snuggles her toddler a little closer. A nurse from Massachusetts ...
US Internet ad revenue grows 15 percent in 2012
U.S. Internet advertising revenue grew 15 percent to a record $36.6 billion in 2012, with mobile ad revenue growing faster than other types, according ...
Hollywood business continues after Boston bombing
While entertainers share their horror over the Boston Marathon bombings, Hollywood as a whole presses on. There was no mention of the deadly blasts ...
Facebook brings 'chat heads' feature to iPhone app
Facebook has updated its iPhone and iPad applications to let people keep using its chat feature even when they are doing other things, such as reading ...
Online nonprofit InsideClimate News wins Pulitzer
In a sign of a rapidly changing media world, a relatively unknown New York-based online nonprofit news site joined some of the country's most ...
On screens, familiar images of terror flash
The Boston Marathon explosions and their aftermath were captured in chilling images that ran as relentless tape loops of terror online and on TV ...
Denver Post wins Pulitzer for coverage of massacre
The Denver Post won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday for its coverage of the movie theater massacre in Aurora, Colo., while The New York Times captured four ...
McIntyre tweets he's OK after Boston marathon run
New Kids on the Block singer Joey McIntyre tweets that he's OK after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon minutes after he ...
Turkish pianist receives suspended jail term
A Turkish court on Monday convicted top Turkish pianist and composer Fazil Say of denigrating religion through comments he made on Twitter and handed ...