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In this May 19, 2011 file photo,the LinkedIn logo is displayed in the foyer at headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.

Food is seen on a table at a restaurant at the port of El Masnou, near Barcelona, May 16, 2008.

An advocacy group went to court on Wednesday to block Google from making a policy change that could lead to the search giant assembling richer behavior profiles of people who use more than one of its popular online services.

Just as it enjoys an initial surge of popularity, a new social networking site called Pinterest is also experiencing its first bout of controversy.

A missing person photo is circulation on Facebook asking anyone who has seen Megan Montgomery to contact her parents or 911.

Jan. 24: Google announces a plan to link user data across its email, video, social-networking and other services.

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Authorities say a father who was upset after a Tennessee couple deleted his adult daughter as a friend on Facebook has been charged with killing the couple.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has ruled an accused killer's MySpace page properly was used as evidence by prosecutors to convince a jury to convict the Dallas-area street gang member of murder.

An appeals court has upheld the murder conviction of an American living in the Czech Republic and sentenced him to 16 years in prison.

A TOP cop has revealed that social networking sites are their first port of call for officers trying to snare criminals.

When it comes to China, Facebook should consider itself forewarned. Cracking the world's biggest internet population might seem an obvious ambition for the social networking giant as it trumpets its global growth before a $5 billion initial public offering, but the chances it will succeed look slim.

Few experts were surprised when Facebook disclosed in its recent IPO filing that its user growth had slowed in the U.S. and Canada.

The Swagger Jagger singer told BBC's Panorama that online slurs have left her "very scared" and she receives up to 10 tweets a day from people attacking her Romany gypsy heritage.

Police in the German state of Lower-Saxony will soon use their networks of Facebook "friends" to find missing persons and hunt out suspected criminals, according to the state's interior minister.

Princeton residents Sid Smith and Bob Cormack were the lucky winners of a model helicopter and airplane in sunny Blythe, CA.

If you've ever wondered what a social-media presence is worth in an increasingly digitized business world, just ask Noah Kravitz's former employers.

A new survey from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press finds cable news most frequently cited as a regular source of political campaign news, followed by local TV news, network news, the Internet and finally local newspapers.

Facebook's initial public offering of stock is likely to make a lot of developers and designers of the site very wealthy.

"Life Before His Eyes" -- During a routine stop for his morning coffee, Gibbs finds himself face-to-face with the barrel of a gun, which forces him to question choices he has made in the past and present, on the 200th episode of NCIS, Tuesday, Feb.