London: The personal fortune of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has doubled to 9 billion pounds after his social networking site got a huge cash injection from Goldman Sachs.

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BEIJING: Police in China have launched micro-blogs in a bid to counter an image as heavy-handed and to ‘guide public opinion’ through improved communications with tech-savvy citizens, state media said

New York: Microblogging site Twitter turned down a 500 million dollar purchase offer from the social networking site Facebook in 2008, according to the Financial Times.

In an interview with the Briti

New York: Some users of Microsoft Hotmail are starting off the new year scrambling to get back e-mails of old. A chorus of frantic users has posted complaints on Microsoft's online forum that all of t

New York: Facebook has surpassed Google for the first time as the most visited website in the United States for most of 2010.

The social network site edged out Google.com with 8.9 per cent of all U.S

Shanghai: China has the use of the popular internet telephony service, Skype, illegal. Websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube are already blocked in China and Google closed down its Chinese se

Washington: A virus infecting mobile phones using Google's Android operating system has emerged in China that can allow a hacker to gain access to personal data, US security experts said.

A report th

Reuters: Two separate groups of iPhone and iPad users have sued Apple Inc alleging that certain software applications were passing personal user information to third-party advertisers without consent.

Melbourne: US President Barack Obama has taken Twitter by storm after using the classic Spider-Man quote 'with great power comes great responsibility' at a press conference.

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Beijing: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg - on holiday in China where his social networking site is officially blocked - met on Wednesday with top executives from the country's popular web portal Sina