
US envoy in Cuba engages critics on and offline
The meeting on a sunny Havana square was a little bit revolutionary for Cuba's revolution. And for U.S. diplomacy as well. Dozens of young bloggers ...
Eminem's publisher sues Facebook over song usage
Eminem's song publisher is suing Facebook and an ad agency, saying they copied music from one of the rapper's songs. Eight Mile Style filed a federal ...

Sports world eyes Oklahoma tornado
The massive tornado that ripped through a handful of Oklahoma City suburbs and killed at least 50 people grabbed the attention of the sports world on ...

Yahoo looks to regain its cool with Tumblr deal
After falling woefully out of fashion, Yahoo wants to be cool again while catering to the capitalistic demands of its shareholders. That goal led CEO ...
Yahoo reboots Flickr, offers 1 terabyte of storage
Fresh on the heels of its $1.1 billion acquisition of Tumblr, Yahoo says it is rebooting its languishing photo-sharing site Flickr with plans to make ...
Idaho couple and Sun Valley land in Twitter tussle
An Internet entrepreneur and former Wall Street derivatives analyst contends central Idaho's Sun Valley resort and the Twitter Inc. social media site ...

A year after IPO, Facebook aims to be ad colossus
It was supposed to be our IPO, the people's public offering. Facebook, the brainchild of a young CEO who sauntered into Wall Street meetings in a ...
Syrian hackers compromise FT blog, Twitter feeds
A clutch of Twitter accounts and a blog maintained by the Financial Times were hacked Friday, the latest in a series of cyberattacks claimed by the ...
Aussie minister sorry he 'liked' exposed teen pic
An Australian politician says he has learned a valuable lesson in social networking after he "liked" a Facebook photo without realizing that it showed ...

INFLUENCE GAME: Tech, labor spar on immigration
To the U.S. technology industry, there's a dramatic shortfall in the number of Americans skilled in computer programming and engineering that is ...
Woman: China police ask to ax White House petition
Upset about plans for a petrochemical plant near her hometown in China, a woman turned to a new method that Chinese are using to air their complaints: ...
No charges for teen after explosion at Fla. school
A central Florida teenager who was accused of igniting a chemical explosion on school grounds — and who became the subject of a grassroots social ...

Google boosts photo offerings to rival Facebook
Google is digging deeper into its technology toolkit to turn its social networking service into a more formidable threat to Facebook, sprucing up its ...

Google unveils maps, photo, music features
Google's sixth annual conference for software developers opened Wednesday with a chance for the company to showcase its latest services.

Nicole Richie gets candid in new AOL web series
As the Twitterverse expands with millions of users, it can be hard to have a unique voice. Nicole Richie doesn't have that problem. Some examples: ...

China tightens grip on discourse, ideology
Chinese authorities have shut down or frozen the microblog accounts of several prominent liberal intellectuals and harassed rights lawyers lobbying ...

LinkedIn looks to build on its impressive resume
LinkedIn and Facebook will celebrate the anniversaries of their IPOs just a few days apart this week. But their experiences as publicly traded ...

China investigates top planning official for graft
Chinese authorities have launched an investigation into a powerful economic planning official accused by a prominent journalist of corruption, the ...

More than just a mother, now she's your 'friend'
Josh Knoller, a young professional in New York City, spent years refusing his mother's "Friend Request" on Facebook before, eventually, "caving in.

Social media raises concern about Disney trademark
When Lalo Alcaraz learned this week that Disney was seeking to trademark "Dia de los Muertos," the name of the traditional "Day of the Dead" ...

'Young and Restless' star Jeanne Cooper dies at 84
Jeanne Cooper, the enduring soap opera star who played grande dame Katherine Chancellor for nearly four decades on "The Young and the Restless," has ...

Jurors deliberate Arias fate amid spectacle
It has become a real-life soap opera watched by people around the world and dozens of fanatics who camp out on a Phoenix sidewalk in the middle of the ...

Venus Williams, Roddick join WTT ownership group
Venus Williams and Andy Roddick were just kids when they got their first taste of World Team Tennis. Williams was 8, having met WTT co-founder Billie ...
E! Online's Twitter, texting accounts hacked
E! Online says hackers compromised its Twitter and text messaging accounts, sending out erroneous news alerts about Justin Bieber and Angelina Jolie.

'Following' cast withholds finale spoilers
Even before the season finale of "The Following" had finished airing in Eastern and Central time zones Monday night, followers of the popular weekly ...