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Waitress fired for posting customer comment online
The note at the top of the restaurant receipt read simply, "I give God 10%, why do you get 18?" The snarky comment has created a furor online after ...
5 Super Bowl ads that enlist viewer help
Advertisers are finding new ways to get viewers into the game during Super Bowl XLVII, which airs on CBS on Sunday. Here are 5 campaigns that enlist ...
Ready to rumble: Super Bowl fans get in the game
You don't have to be a football player to be a part of the action on Super Bowl Sunday. Coca-Cola is asking people to vote for an online match between ...
Ex-HMV employee lets loose on company Twitter feed
An employee apparently fired from music retailer HMV let loose on the company's Twitter feed Thursday, comparing the latest round of layoffs to a mass ...
Indiana couple vows to fight fawn rescue charges
Jeff Counceller says a dying fawn he found on someone's porch three years ago surely wouldn't have lived had he and his wife not nursed it back to ...
Egypt clashes spill into landmark Cairo hotel
Looters broke into a Nile-side luxury hotel in the Egyptian capital early Tuesday, taking advantage of clashes in the streets outside to trash shops ...
Soldier who lost 4 limbs has double-arm transplant
On Facebook, he describes himself as a "wounded warrior...very wounded." Brendan Marrocco was the first soldier to survive losing all four limbs in ...
Providence theater experiments with 'tweet seats'
Sarah Bertness slipped into her seat at a recent staging of the musical "Million Dollar Quartet" and, when the lights dimmed, started doing something ...
Somali militants' Twitter shut after death threat
Twitter on Friday suspended the account used by Somalia's al-Qaida-linked militant group after the insurgents used the micro-blogging site to post a ...
Murder in Pakistan sparks anger at country's elite
More than 2,000 people were murdered in Pakistan's largest city last year, but the shooting death of 20-year-old Shahzeb Khan in one of Karachi's most ...
Court sides with Jewish group against Twitter
A French court has sided with a Jewish group seeking to identify authors of anti-Semitic messages that circulated the social network Twitter last ...
Pope on social networking: the virtual is real
Pope Benedict XVI put church leaders on notice Thursday, saying social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter aren't a virtual world they can ...
Mrs. Obama has bangs: Let the analyzing begin
Before we start rambling on obsessively about Michelle Obama's bangs, let's be clear: The president started it. It was he, after all, who called the ...
Congrats flood in for Shakira's new baby boy
Within hours of Shakira's baby boy being born, people are already asking about his future career. Will Milan Pique Mebarak be a famous pop singer ...
Brazil police inspector removed from post
A Rio de Janiero police inspector has been removed for making disparaging remarks about female officers on his Twitter account. Inspector Pedro Paulo ...
Te'o not alone in claiming online wishful thinking
It started out a stunner: The Heisman Trophy runner-up had told heartbreaking stories about a dead girlfriend who didn't exist. Then it became unreal: ...
Timeline of Te'o quotes in girlfriend hoax story
All-American linebacker Manti Te'o talked to, and about, someone posing as Lennay Kekua online and on the phone in late 2011 and 2012. After media ...
Subway 'crisis': Is footlong sub really 11 inches?
What's in an inch? Apparently, enough missing meat, cheese and tomatoes to cause an uproar. Subway, the world's largest fast food chain with 38,000 ...
First lady launches new Twitter account: @FLOTUS
Trying to find Michelle Obama on Twitter? Try tweeting her at (at)FLOTUS, which is Washington shorthand for "first lady of the United States." Mrs.
Bahrain activist free on bail before Twitter trial
A lawyer in Bahrain says a human rights activist has been freed on bail after more than two months in custody on charges of posting false news on ...
Facebook unveils social search feature
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new search feature that's designed to entice people to spend more time on his company's website and will put ...
Analysts see potential in Facebook search feature
Industry watchers see in Facebook's new, expanded search feature an opportunity to make money through search advertising. CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed ...
Review: Searching for answers on Facebook
Facebook unveiled a new search tool on Tuesday that gives users a chance to sift through the photos, places and other information available on the ...
Tatler magazine mourns dog killed in door accident
British high-society magazine Tatler is mourning its beloved office dog, Alan, who died in a revolving-door accident. Tatler said long-haired ...
What's Facebook's secret? Company tells all today
Facebook's mystery "press event" on Tuesday could reveal a more robust search feature that would intensify the competition between the social ...