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Silk Road Undercover Agent Admits Bitcoin Fraud

Fallout from Silk Road continues after former DEA undercover agent pleads guilty to extorting bitcoins

Facebook Reportedly Abandons Internet.org Satellites

Is space the final frontier for Facebook? Reports suggest it has abandoned satellite plans for Internet.org

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Facebook’s Internet.org Criticised In Open Letter

Open letter accuses Mark Zuckerberg of creating a walled garden with the Internet.org initative

Belgian Privacy Watchdog Hits Back After Facebook Criticism

Tit for tat argument continues as Belgian Privacy Watchdog sharply criticises Facebook and its privacy controls

Facebook Instant Articles Promises Better Mobile Experience

New Facebook tool for publishers quickly creates interactive news articles on social network

EU Reveals Ambitious Plan For Digital Single Market

Europe unveils its plan to tackle American domination of the digital world, but will it work?

Google Profits Up Despite Advert Value Squeeze

Google's outgoing CFO reveals modest profit rise, amid increased competition for mobile ad dollars

Facebook Profit Slides As R&D Costs Bite

Social networking giant posts positive results, but profits dip and revenue growth slows

Google Hits Back At European Antitrust ‘Objections’

Search giant “strongly disagrees” with the EC's “statement of objections” as it opens formal Android probe

Facebook To Bring Internet.org Service To Europe

Richard Branson joins in with impromptu and wide-ranging Q&A with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook Hits Back At Belgian Privacy Report

Embattled Facebook admits it tracks non-users, but dismisses report findings from Belgian privacy watchdog

Facebook Lays Out Its Plans For A Connected World

Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence and drones all form part of future view

Barclays Lets You Send Money Through Twitter

PingIt lets customers pay people and businesses using their Twitter handle

How To Explain Phishing To A Five-Year-Old

The definitive definition of phishing (not fishing) from the experts for the kids (and adults, too)

Google Readies YouTube Music Service

Spotify watch out, as Google readies the launch of its YouTube subscription music service

Revenge Porn Outlawed In England And Wales

Posting 'revenge porn' images and film online is to become a criminal offence and may result in a prison sentence

Delta Airlines Sorry For Oral Sex Facebook Content

Facebook account of American airlines hacked and defaced with 'objectionable and offensive' content

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Twitter Confirms CFO Account Hack

The Twitter account belonging to the CFO of the microblogging website falls victim to hack

UK Conservative Party Forks Out £100k A Month On Facebook

Money can’t buy you happiness, but the UK Conservative party seems to think it can buy voter confidence.

Technology Brings Tennis Fans Closer to Murray And Djokovic At Australian Open Final

Tennis Australia and IBM use enhanced data analytics, mobile apps and cloud computing to deliver an engaging experience

Taylor Swift’s Twitter, Instagram Accounts Hacked

"Hackers gonna hack hack hack hack hack", it seems, as Taylor Swift's Twitter account not able to “shake it off” as Lizard Squad strikes again

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Facebook Clamps Down On Newsfeed Hoaxes

Social networking giant responds to user complaints about hoaxes and spam in newsfeeds

Google And Max Mosley Square Off Over Sex Party Images

Spank you very much, as Max Mosley slaps Google with a lawsuit over sex party images

Facebook Acquires QuickFire For Smaller Videos

Social networking giant's acquisition spree continues with purchase of video compression specialist

Proposal To Tag HTTP Websites As ‘Non-Secure’

Google Chrome team proposes to make all web browsers tag HTML websites as 'non-secure' destinations