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An Arizona restaurateur, fed up after years of negative online reviews and an embarrassing appearance on a reality television show, posted a social media rant laced with salty language and angry, uppercase letters that quickly went viral last week, to the delight of people who love a good Internet meltdown.

Two members of a Marion County criminal street gang were arrested with the help of social media, according to deputies.

Washington has become the fifth state this year to sign into law protections of social media passwords at the workplace and job interviews Gov.

Rolando Gomez, world famous photographer, author and lecturer, has released "Socially Smart: Twitter Plus Facebook, Marketing Multipliers and Brand Boosters." This book builds on his popular university and trade show lectures on "Internet Strategies and Guerilla Marketing." In it, Rolando shares everything he has learned from successfully using ... (more)

Granting limited discovery in a social media dispute, a Lancaster County judge has ordered the parties in a personal injury case to hire a "neutral forensic computer expert" to review the plaintiff's private Facebook page during a 17-day window in which the defendants claim the woman alleging injuries was photographed playing in the snow.

Teens are posting more and more personal information on social media sites, but most also are taking formal and informal measures to protect their online privacy and reputations, a new survey finds.

Rescue crews are working through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered wood.

A new poll finds that teens are sharing more about themselves on social media. They're also moving increasingly to Twitter to avoid their parents and the "oversharing" that they see on Facebook .

Police are investigating a "foolish" video showing a teenager throwing a bottle at a car from the fourth storey of a Perth car park.

Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs and the rest of the scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973 were a lot like young developers at a Silicon Valley startup today.

Glenview might not be part of the CTA's train network, but there's still something familiar about the ever growing Facebook group People of the CTA.

The complaint filed in Michigan federal court not only accuses the popular social network of lifting one of Eminem's songs for the April launch of a new application called "Facebook Home," but tells the story of how Facebook's advertising company attempted to use Eminem to attract the liking of Mark Zuckerberg , and how, when threatened with ... (more)

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 hoodie, was going to be bigger than Amazon, bigger than McDonald's, bigger than Coca-Cola. And it was all made possible by our friendships, photos and family ties.

Yahoo Inc said it is buying blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, giving the struggling Internet pioneer a much-needed platform in social media to reach a younger generation of users.

Some family and friends of Natasha Jeffrey, the victim of a homicide, are taking to Facebook to express their grief.

A judge ordered Justin Applewhite, 16, Kenneth Brown, 15, and Scandale Fritz, 16, each held on $900,000 bond.

More than 230 people voted online to give the Irish Draught breed the name after a poll was run on the mounted branch's social network page.

The artist's sister said in social network posts that he died at home in Austin, Texas, on May 7, although the news took time to filter through to his friends and collaborators in the music world.

The New York City Anti Violence Project and LGBT Center announced via social media yesterday that a rally and Community Safety Night will be held next week in response to the recent ash of anti-gay violence across the city that lead to Saturday night's attack and murder of Marc Carson in Greenwich Village.

The Winklevoss brothers' legal battle with Facebook over the social network's messy creation made them rich.