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Facebook shares post biggest single-day gain
Facebook's stock gained the most in a single day Wednesday since it began trading in May, a sign that the social media company's complicated ...
Ahead of the Bell: Facebook surges on 3Q results
Shares of Facebook surged in premarket trading Wednesday, as analysts praised the social media company's third-quarter results, including its first ...
Schieffer ends final debate with advice: go vote
Bob Schieffer took a light hand Monday as moderator of the final presidential debate, ending with advice from his mother: "Go vote. It makes you feel ...
Armstrong removes Tour titles from Twitter bio
Having won seven Tour de France titles is no longer part of Lance Armstrong's Twitter profile. As late as Monday night, Armstrong's bio on the social ...
Social nets grab 'horses and bayonets' debate line
President Barack Obama countered Mitt Romney's Big Bird and binders on Monday night with horses, bayonets and Battleship. Who won? The Internet, of ...
Akin aide uses profanity in shot at McCaskill
An aide to Todd Akin on Monday used a profanity in a tweet to extend the GOP Senate hopeful's weekend analogy comparing Democratic incumbent Claire ...
After lawsuit threat, Twitter to pull racist posts
Twitter agreed to pull racist and anti-Semitic tweets under a pair of French hash tags after a Jewish group threatened to sue the social network for ...
Google issues a bad report early, hurting Nasdaq
Google plummeted almost $80 per share, more than 10 percent, and trading in the stock was halted two and a half hours Thursday after a disappointing ...
Twitter shuts out German neo-Nazi group's account
Twitter has for the first time blocked an account using a new tool that allows it to bar content in individual countries, shutting out a banned German ...
Yelp to alert consumers on fake reviews
Yelp says it will alert users if it suspects that a business has tried to buy fake, misleading reviews on its site. Yelp Inc. said Thursday that some ...
Bahrain detains 4 for alleged anti-king tweets
Bahrain has detained four people for defaming the island's king with Twitter posts in a case that is likely to test the limits of expression in the ...
Turkish pianist on trial for insulting Islam
A top Turkish pianist and composer appeared in court on Thursday to defend himself against charges of offending Muslims and insulting Islam in ...
Megan Fox announces birth of baby boy on Facebook
Megan Fox has taken to social media to announce the birth of her baby boy. The "Transformers" actress wrote on her Facebook profile on Wednesday that ...
Binders of women: How the debate played online
Move over Big Bird, these binders are full of women. The offhand phrase from former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on Tuesday night was one of many ...
Obama, first lady voting early ahead of Nov. 6
President Barack Obama won't be posing for any photos in the voting booth on Election Day — he's casting his ballot early. Obama and first lady ...
Jump from 24-miles high provides collective moment
Felix Baumgartner stood poised in the open hatch of a capsule suspended above Earth, wondering if he would make it back alive. Twenty four miles below ...
24-mile skydive a boon for YouTube, social media
Felix Baumgartner's 24-mile skydive from the stratosphere on Sunday was a boon for social networks as millions of users shared in the wonder of the ...
Do black people support Obama because he's black?
Surviving slavery, segregation and discrimination has forged a special pride in African-Americans. Now some are saying this hard-earned pride has ...
Scandal hurts Armstrong, but doesn't destroy image
It's not so much that the Lance Armstrong story was too good to be true. Now it might just be too good to let go. Even after investigators unveiled ...
Teen who posted video on bullying found dead
Canada was in uproar Friday over a 15-year-old schoolgirl who was found dead, an apparent suicide, five weeks after she uploaded a video to YouTube ...
Fidel Castro son, sister say he's fine amid rumors
Fidel Castro's relatives in Cuba and Miami denied the latest round of rumors about the 86-year-old former president's supposedly declining health, ...
Tweet police? Texas Rangers probe draws questions
The Texas Rangers flash the baddest badge in the Lone Star State. They're the top cops working the biggest crimes beneath iconic white cowboy hats.
Bieber publicist: Stolen laptop tweet not a hoax
Was pop star Justin Bieber's laptop actually stolen during a show in Washington state? Bieber tweeted to his nearly 29 million followers he and his ...
Forceful Raddatz draws praise as moderator
ABC's Martha Raddatz took a forceful approach to moderating Thursday's vice presidential debate, winning many positive reviews from instant pundits ...