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Internal Affairs officers on Saturday were looking into allegations made by actress Amanda Bynes that New York Police Department officers sexually assaulted her when she was arrested for heaving a marijuana bong out the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment Thursday night.

Friday evening East Coast time, Hurd had 78 followers - most of them Oracle employees - and was following 67 other Twitter users.

In the wake of devout Muslims beheading a young British man in the streets of London, UK police are vigrously enforcing the sharia.

Fans of social media were reassured this week as Twitter finally rolled out two-step verification, ostensibly making the service more secure for its millions of customers.

"Just wish things could be easier sometimes mann," Kendall Jenner , 17, wrote to her more than five million Twitter followers on Tuesday night, prompting the ire of Frances Bean Cobain , the daughter of rockers Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love .

An upstate New York student said he got a three-day suspension for creating a controversial Twitter hashtag encouraging discussion of the school district's failed budget.

Katy Perry has offered an olive branch in what quickly escalated from a mindless tweet to a full-blown feud.

Yahoo has acquired PlayerScale, a startup developer of infrastructure software for cross-platform gaming, adding to its string of recent acquisitions.

Officers from force will be giving a live insight into their activities during the busiest period of the spring bank holiday weekend - from 9pm on Saturday until 6am the following morning - via Twitter.

RBS was hit by another embarrassing IT failure that left customers using its popular mobile app unable to access their accounts online.

Two men have been released on bail following their arrest for making alleged offensive comments on Twitter about the murder of a British soldier in London.

Internet communities are more trustworthy than some big corporations, but mobile is proving a hard nut to crack even for the best of them, actor and venture capitalist Ashton Kutcher told CTIA Wireless Thursday.

Baseball pro Jose Canseco was accused of raping a Las Vegas fitness trainer earlier this week and now the former outfielder is taking to Twitter to call out his accuser and dare her to take a Polygraph test.

The general consensus in the security community is "good job, Twitter." We asked security expert Ken Pickering about Twitter's latest attempt to improve security through voluntary, two-step authentication.

For decades the television industry has dreamed about the Holy Grail of interactive advertising: commercials that enable viewers to pick up their remotes to get a coupon, book a test drive or enter a contest.

Did your credit take a nose dive in the recession? Or perhaps you're young and haven't had time to build a solid financial history? We found some financial companies are using social media to connect to their customers, even using it to evaluate if they're credit worthy! For example, BMX biking is Adam Grandmaison's passion and business.

A senseless murder in London had a far more mundane effect here across the pond yesterday: CNN's Piers Morgan banned Tea Party firebrand and hometown girl Dana Loesch from his show for using the occasion for a pro-NRA tweet.

After neglecting its Mac app for more than two years, Twitter is finally rolling out a steady supply of updates to the OS X desktop app.

President Obama speaks at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore on May 17. The trip followed a visit by the company's president to Capitol Hill to testify in support of the Keystone XL pipeline.

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