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The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New York Police Department are renewing their efforts to solve a 2008 bombing in Times Square that damaged a military recruiting center by boosting the reward, releasing new video footage, and seeking tips on Twitter.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with Samsung president Shin Jong Kyun this week to discuss a potential partnership, Bloomberg reported. Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, is interested in working with Samsung, the world’s largest smartphone vendor, to help boost its mobile advertising sales. The two …

By Jennifer Saba (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it now has 1 million active advertisers globally who used the platform in the last 28 days, a milestone for the company that is seeking to revive its revenue growth. A vast majority of those advertisers are small business owners who have flocked to the world's No. …

Raising awareness of organ donation on social media websites can help boost donation rates, according to a new study.

Twitter Makes Crowds Less Predictable

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has met South Korean President Park Geun-hye in Seoul to discuss ways to stimulate entrepreneurship and venture firms in Asia's fourth-largest economy. Park's office said Zuckerberg ...

Facebook will reportedly be adding Vine-like, short video clips to its Instagram service later this month. This follows an important cross-over moment — earlier in June, Vine surpassed Instagram in Twitter shares. But perhaps even more worryingly, Vine has become the fastest growing top iOS app in America measured by engagement. …

With a mysterious Facebook product launch coming up on Thursday, the rumormongers think they've landed on yet another possibility for what's to come: a video competitor for Twitter's Vine, made by none other than Instagram itself. You know, even though the rumormongers believed something else entirely just a few hours  …

Iran's new president is quite the tweeter.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Manziel still has three years of eligibility left at Texas A&M.

June 16 marks the 18th day of fierce antigovernment protests in Turkey. Escalating violence is being documented by activists who are accusing the police of cruel and excessive force. Gassing and other manifestations of violence are wreaking havoc in neighborhoods throughout Istanbul, Ankara and smaller cities throughout …

Facebook became the first tech company implicated in the PRISM scandal to release a complete view of data requests received from U.S. authorities — secret PRISM requests and all — but Google and Twitter were quick to voice their displeasure with Facebook's apparent privacy triumph. Friday evening, Facebook general counsel Ted …

MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — Facebook's top attorney said Friday night that after negotiations with national security officials the company has been given permission to make new but still very limited revelations about government orders to turn over user data.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook Inc received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests for user data from various U.S. government entities in 2012's second half, involving 18,000 to 19,000 of its users' accounts, the world's largest social network said in a Friday blogpost. The company said it released the information after …

The linguistic snobs over at the Oxford English Dictionary have accepted "tweet" — as in to post something on Twitter — into its exclusive language club because "it seems to be catching on" as a verb in its own right, which got us thinking: how did it get itself lower-case t status? Other brand name verbs don't work like …

LONDON (Reuters) - "Tweet", "dad dancing" and "geekery" are three of more than 1,200 new or revised words in the latest version of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) released on Friday. The dictionary said in a quarterly update on its website that it had expanded its entries for "follow" (verb), "follower" (noun), and …

Following a week of incredibly bad press, some "sources close to the situation" are claiming that Facebook and the National Security Administration are in "serious discussions" about being more transparent about the data the government requests from the social network. As of now, tech companies have a gag order on FISA …

It's hard to give a speech nowadays without starting some sort of a Twitter war. This morning, at the Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, it was Jeb Bush's odd way of talking about immigrants' ability to procreate.

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military is looking more and more like "Girls Gone Wild."

HASHING IT OUT: Facebook is introducing hashtags, the number signs used on Twitter, Instagram and other services to identify topics being discussed and allow users to search for them. HOW IT WORKS: Users ...

Facebook Pulls a Trick from Twitter's Playbook With New Hashtag Functionality

Facebook is introducing hashtags, the number signs used on Twitter, Instagram and other services to identify topics being discussed and allow users to search for them. Facebook Inc. said in a blog post ...

The former secretary of State gets an enthusiastic welcome as she joins the social media party