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Article | 8/01/2009 Zuckerberg: Facebook hits 150M member mark

Facebook reached the 150 million-member mark on Wednesday, a milestone the company's CEO Mark Zuckerberg heralds as significant: now he needs to deliv...

Article | 5/01/2009 Wikipedia raises needed funds for its operations

The Wikimedia Foundation has raised the necessary funds to operate Wikipedia until the end of June, the nonprofit organization announced Friday.

Article | 17/12/2008 NewsGator sharpens enterprise social network product

NewsGator has enhanced its Social Sites enterprise social-networking software with Facebook-like activity stream notifications and improved search fun...

Article | 13/12/2008 Start Page yanked from new Google Apps signups

Google has quietly stopped offering the Start Page component in new accounts of its Apps hosted suite in favor of the product's Sites wiki and Web pag...

Article | 10/12/2008 UK Wikipedia blacklisting dropped

A Wikipedia page blacklisted this weekend in the UK over child pornography concerns has been unblocked, a decision that also fully restores the abilit...

Article | 9/12/2008 MySpace vows to boost data portability efforts

MySpace is extending and rebranding as a suite some products that extend the functionality of the popular social network to other Web sites.

Article | 8/12/2008 DNA portraits: as personal as art can get

Confessional poetry, tell-all memoirs, painted self portraits and thinly veiled autobiographical novels are all intensely personal works of art, but n...

Article | 4/12/2008 Shoppers opened their wallets on Cyber Monday

Cyber Monday, the day after the Thanksgiving weekend in the U.S., lived up to its reputation for big online retail sales, triggering disproportionatel...

Article | 3/12/2008 Report: Former AOL CEO Miller trying to buy Yahoo

Jonathan Miller, the well-respected former AOL CEO, has been talking for months to potential investors interested in buying all or part of Yahoo, The ...

Article | 19/11/2008 Amazon debuts content delivery network service

Amazon has launched a hosted content-delivery network (CDN) service that it first announced in a preliminary test version two months ago.

Article | 19/11/2008 Facebook app verification fee draws criticism

Facebook now gives its developers the option of submitting their applications for review to obtain a seal of approval, but some developers aren't thri...

Article | 17/11/2008 Google, other supporters mark OpenSocial's first year

OpenSocial supporters celebrated on Thursday what they consider major progress in this project to establish a common set of standard APIs and tools fo...

Article | 13/11/2008 Google cries foul over coverage of Apps outages

Recent outages affecting Google Apps have received a disproportionately large amount of coverage from the technology press, resulting in a mispercepti...

Article | 10/11/2008 Google, Microsoft, Facebook and MySpace talk platforms

As Web application platforms rise in importance and popularity, Google, Microsoft, MySpace and Facebook executives shared tips for keeping developers ...

Article | 10/11/2008 Gore sees transformative power of Web in politics

Barack Obama had a lot going for him already in this year's election, but his creative use of the Internet played a huge role in making him president ...