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Are Facebook hashtags useful in accelerating a company’s post’s viral reach? A recent study by Facebook analytics service EdgeRank Checker states that posts with hashtags do not have as great of reach than those...
Various engineers, software developers, and anonymous sources from Facebook's front lines divulge the details about the worst things about working for the social network. From the lack of office professionalism...
Syria's civil war and political strife inEgypt have thrown up new battlegrounds on the Web and driven a surge in cyber attacks in the Middle East, according to a leading Internet...
BT, Virgin Media, BSkyB and Talk Talk are being asked to sign up to a voluntary code for policing illegal downloading Broadband providers are being asked to create a database...
All those people staring at their tablets on airplanes, the buttons to their Economist app conspicuously displayed—are they more likely to spend the flight actually reading theEconomist, or slingshotting irate avians into green...
I am studying at Purdue University. Companies come here to hire students for full time and internship positions. Like many others, Microsoft too came. I attended the talk by Microsoft employees....
If you’ve been to a play or other event put on by your child’s elementary school recently, you might have experienced something similar to what the Nokia ad above depicts....
Digital bad guys are as concerned about return on investment (ROI) as any big business. That’s why they attack credit-card processing centers rather than gathering account information one credit card...
Twitter is preparing itself for an initial public offering (IPO) that could value the company as highly as $15 billion, reports the Sunday Times, citing anonymous (but nonetheless compelling) senior banking...
Nokia, the once-"burning platform" mobile devices company, is now seen to be a looked-upon savior for Microsoft. Late Labor Day evening, Microsoft announced it would be acquiring the handset and...
The Yahoo portal in China contains a farewell message citing adjustments to its operations strategy as the reason for the change. Yahoo's news and community services have shut down in...
Candy Crush Saga, the popular mobile device game by King.com, has seen some spectacular success. Now, it turns out the candy-puzzle game has grown faster than an algorithm charting its...
Hawaiian Airlines this week announced that it will begin offering iPad minis to passengers flying between Hawaii and 14 routes that encompass destinations in the US, Asia, and the South...
Verizon and Vodafone have finally announced a deal that’s at least three years in the making: Verizon is to pay Vodafone $130 billion for the British operator group’s 45 percent stake in...
According to Sony, the PlayStation 4 will feature a voice command system which will allow users to control the console by speaking to it—much like the Xbox One's Kinect-powered system. The feature...
The good ship Galaxy Gear smartwatch is springing multiple leaks ahead of its official reveal this Wednesday, Sept. 4, and there are even leaks about previous leaks vying for attention....
After helping Lenovo thrive in the wretched PC industry -- while also making it the number oneChinese smartphone maker -- CEO Yang Yuanqing earned a sizeable bonus. And like last year, he's sharing the...
Low-end Nokia smartphoes have helped Windows Phone grab eight percent of smartphone sales in Europe's five major markets, but the would-be third platform to Android and iOS is struggling to...
Images of tech entrepreneurs such as Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs are continually thrown at us by politicians, economists, and the media. The message is that innovation is best left...
It is illegal in the United States for federal prisoners to go on the internet. Most prisoners who have been serving long sentences in prison have never been online. Some...
