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Déjà vu: Groupon stock plunges on earnings miss

Once again, shares of Groupon are tanking after daily deals site's earnings sorely missed low expectations.  More

Pimps hit Facebook to recruit teen sex workers

Flirty Facebook "friend" requests are the bait some sex traffickers are using to lure in new victims.  More

Instagram hits 100 million users

Saying it has hit 100 million monthly active users, Instagram seems to have overcome December's terms-of-service exodus.  More

Behind Facebook's tax bill

A tax advocacy group says Facebook will pay no U.S. income tax for 2012. That's because the company got a sizable tax deduction from stock options it paid to its employees.  More

Yahoo's new homepage is a good first step

Yahoo unveiled its new homepage on Wednesday, one of the company's most visual product overhauls since CEO Marissa Mayer joined the company.  More

A social network that really "gets" you

Startup ArchetypeMe wants to take personalization to the next level with a little help from Carl Jung.  More

LinkedIn proves it's no Facebook (in a good way)

Post-IPO life hasn't been kind to Facebook and other newly public social startups, whose plummeting shares have left investors crying tech bubble. But LinkedIn, the first of the big upstarts to go public, continues to prove it can make money  More

LinkedIn CEO: Treat employees like adults, and you won't have leaks

With 1 million user "endorsements" and counting, Jeff Weiner explains the secret behind his company's red-hot streak.  More

Bang with Friends is exactly what you think it is

Thanks to a new app, one user's social network is another user's hook-up portal.  More

Zynga beats estimates, but user trends are concerning

Zynga's fourth-quarter earnings and sales topped Wall Street estimates, but the company still faces many challenges.  More

Do the math: Facebook is not a buy

If Facebook wants to return even 10% annually to shareholders for the next ten years, it would need revenues approaching $70 billion by 2022, and 31% earnings growth annually. Good luck.  More

Facebook sales rise 40% as mobile ads expand

Facebook investors initially freaked when mobile user growth wasn't as robust as last quarter.  More

Facebook earnings: Spotlight on mobile

Facebook impressed last quarter in the area Wall Street cares about most: mobile.  More

Facebook could pay users in class-action case

Millions of Facebook users got an email notice saying they could be eligible for a $10 payment.  More

Vine is Twitter's stab at the 'Instagram of video'

Will the new video sharing service find a place in our lives?  More

Facebook enables free iPhone voice calls

Facebook's new Messenger feature lets iPhone users place free voice calls to friends. Start worrying, Skype.  More

Facebook is becoming a modern-day AOL

Facebook is building the foundation for a walled Internet realm you never need to leave.  More

Facebook charges $100 to message Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook says it is testing 'extreme price points' to see what works best in fighting spam.  More

Yelp stock falls 8% on Facebook Graph Search news

Yelp's stock sank after Facebook unveiled Graph Search, a tool that lets users search their social connections for information that their friends have shared  More

New video law lets you share your Netflix viewing on Facebook

Netflix is now free to create a U.S. Facebook app that shares users' viewing history if they opt in, after the company successfully lobbied Congress to amend a 1988 law called VPPA.  More

Tweet costs Mark Cuban $50,000

Mark Cuban's tweet criticizing National Basketball Association officials cost him $50,000.  More

Microsoft to kill Messenger on March 15

Microsoft is transitioning its more than 100 million Messenger users to Skype in two months.  More

Zynga shuts down 11 games

Zynga closed down PetVille and other struggling titles in a cost-cutting move.  More

Snapchat's 'disappearing' videos don't actually vanish

A security flaw enables video messages on Snapchat to resurface.  More

Facebook to test fees for out-of-network messaging

Facebook will let some users pay to send messages to people who are not connected to them.  More

Sheryl Sandberg made $50 million selling Facebook shares

Top executives are using pre-set trading plans to quietly liquidate some of their Facebook stock.  More

How to protect your Instagram photos

Our privacy user's guide to surviving the Instagram photo policy-change Apocalypse.  More

Instagram says it won't sell your photos to advertisers

After a user revolt, Instagram backtracked on a proposed rule change that it says went way further than it intended.  More

Judge orders Paul Ceglia to pay Facebook $100,000

A federal judge has ordered Paul Ceglia, an upstate New York man who claims he's owed 50% of Facebook, to pay the social network nearly $100,000 in legal and travel fees.  More

The daily deals market looks bleak

It's been a winter of discontent in a field analysts aren't sure will survive.  More

Do Not Track is dying

After months of stalled negotiations, Do Not Track Web browser privacy protections are nowhere close to becoming a reality.  More

Facebook and Zynga tear up their contract

The new terms relax restrictions on both Facebook and Zynga, the game maker that accounts for a significant portion of the social network's revenue. Facebook formerly had a unique deal with Zynga.  More

Facebook launches job search app

Facebook is jumping into the job search space, with a Social Jobs App that includes listings from services like Monster and BranchOut.  More

Facebook jumps 12%

Facebook has already made it through several lockup expiration periods. It employs a somewhat unusual staggered system, with a total of five lockup expirations. Wednesday is the third, and largest, in the series.  More

Zynga CFO leaves amid major executive shakeup

Zynga was forced to slash both its workforce and its 2012 outlook last month. Now CFO Dave Wehner is jumping ship for, of all companies, Facebook.  More

800 million Facebook shares set to flood market

Investors brace for the latest wave of Facebook shares in the third round of a staggered lockup expiration period following its IPO.  More

How safe is your company's Twitter account?

In light of last week's massive password reset, businesses should shore up their security measures. What do the experts suggest?  More

Tweeted your ballot? You may have broken the law

Laws in each of the 50 states vary, but many ban photographing or filming of ballots.  More

The latest Zuckerberg startup: Reality TV

Randi Zuckerberg, Mark's sister, talks about her Bravo reality series, 'Start-ups: Silicon Valley' and why tech is so hot right now.  Play

Sandy victims plead for NJ celeb donations

The Facebook pages of New Jersey celebrities -- including Bon Jovi, Springsteen and the "Jersey Shore" MTV show cast -- are littered with requests for them to assist in Hurricane Sandy relief.  More

Paul Ceglia arrested on fraud charges for Facebook lawsuit

The man who claims he owns 50% of Facebook was changed by federal prosecutors with a "multi-billion-dollar scheme" to defraud Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg.  More

Style site Fancy raises $26 million

Fashion-focused e-commerce site nets big new financing round.  More

Facebook employees are now $5.2 billion richer

On Monday, Facebook's rank-and-file employees will have their first chance to turn their paper wealth into actual cash.  More

Don't be fooled, social media still risky

Zynga and Facebook both saw surges on positive earnings, but social media with questionable business models are still a risky bet.  Play

Zynga surges on higher sales, casino gaming plans

Struggling social gaming company Zynga reported sales that topped forecasts and plans to enter the casino gaming market in the U.K.  More

Facebook stock pops 8% as ad sales surge

Facebook's second earnings report as a public company came in just above Wall Street estimates, but that was enough for investors to give shares a nice boost.  More

Zynga slices staff and downsizes The Ville

The gaming pioneer laid off 5% of its employees and announced plans to shutter 13 games.  More

Facebook's week of reckoning is here

Facebook has a scary week on tap: Its second earnings report as a public company lands Tuesday, and on Thursday its employees' stock becomes liquid.  More

Ex-Facebook exec to push UK startups

Facebook's senior European executive, Joanna Shields, is leaving the social media giant to lead UK's Tech City, London's Silicon Valley  More

Why Facebook should pay you for your data

Facebook could potentially solve its advertising woes by paying users to market their personal information to advertisers.  More

Victoria Ransom's wild ride

From adventure travel to social marketing, the CEO of Google's latest big-ticket acquisition has a knack for having the right idea at the right time.  More

Where Facebook insiders' political money goes

Facebook's top leaders are flexing their political muscle this cycle, contributing to their favorite party, or hoping to influence policy by giving to the company's political action committee.  More

Bindersfullofwomen.com snapped up in 90 seconds

A Democratic super PAC grabbed the Web address of the instantly viral phrase just moments after the words left Mitt Romney's mouth.  More

Facebook 'likes' Republicans

Facebook gives more to Republicans from its corporate political action committee in this year's election cycle.  More

Analysts sour on Facebook after Zynga's downbeat outlook

When Zynga scaled back its outlook for 2012, the bad news quickly spread to Facebook, which depends on the FarmVille maker for a significant portion of its sales.  More

Jack Dorsey scales back at Twitter

Twitter's leadership musical chairs continues, with once-exiled co-founder Jack Dorsey cutting back and refocusing on Square.  More

EBay unveils major redesign and same-day delivery service

EBay is pulling its old clunky site into the modern age with a major redesign and new features inspired by its younger, buzzier tech rivals.  More

Zynga: It's not game over yet

It's been a turbulent ride for the social game maker -- and things could very well get worse. But that doesn't mean the company doesn't have prospects, including a sale.  More

Zynga plummets 19% after cutting 2012 outlook

Zynga's OMGPOP deal has turned into OMGNO.  More
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