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Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market:NYSEAvon Products Inc., up $3.51 to $20.79Fourth-quarter earnings were far better than anyone ...

Grammys weekend was a little disappointing for little Justin Bieber. Of course there was his Saturday Night Live hosting gig, and then his attempts to upstage the award show failed miserably. Now, he's fighting back (with words, at least) against a slight from the drummer of the Black Keys, a band the Grammys treated well, …

The popular social-messaging service is partnering with American Express to let you make purchases just by tweeting

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A new program from American Express lets Twitter users post special hashtags to buy gift cards and things like Xbox 360 gaming consoles or a Kindle Fire HD from Amazon.The credit card issuer said Monday ...

Meet Florida Man.

Furious One Direction fans hurled death threats at Taylor Swift on Twitter after her sassy performance of "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" at Sunday's 55th Grammy Awards. The harsh threats continued to roll in well into late Monday.

New Hampshire is considering joining a handful of states that bar employers from asking job applicants and employees for their social media user names and passwords.The House's labor committee is holding ...

As if you weren't paranoid enough about your Facebook privacy settings, now your ever social-media move can be mined for the purposes of actual spying. The Guardian has lifted the veil on RIOT, an as-yet-unsold program from defense contractor Raytheon that looks through Facebook, Twitter, Gowalla, and Foursquare to find …

"I would like to thank the swap meet for his hat," Jay-Z jokingly said to singer The-Dream at the end of their acceptance speech for Best Rap Collaboration at the 55th Grammy Awards.

What if Grammys were given out based on popularity on social media? This infographic examines which nominees are dominating Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and YouTube.

It might be time to reexamine some of those 4,896 Facebook friends. Or are they "friends?"

You might not know it from all the Twitter chatter, but the blizzard that’s currently pummeling the East Coast is not called “Nemo” — at least not officially.

Some people just have a way with words. A poetic retrospective of the haiku-like 140-character musings of Iowa's senior Republican

On July 9, 2012, Nabeel Rajab, a prominent Bahraini human rights advocate, was arrested and detained for three months. His crime: insulting Bahrain in a tweet. While incarcerated, he was then sentenced to an additional two years for his involvement in pro-democracy protests.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - LinkedIn Corp extended its hot streak on Thursday, announcing both blow-out quarterly profits and a bullish forecast for the new year that exceeded Wall Street's already lofty expectations. The results reaffirmed the "professional" social network's reputation as a fast-growing but sure-footed business …

A weird thing happened on Thursday night. Anytime you clicked on a link — or most of the time anyways — some strange Internet force directed you to an error page on Facebook. The URL is full of weird randomly generated code, but it's definitely a Facebook page. You can even check your notifications even though you didn't …

Twitter isn't just for Justin Bieber – terrorists are tweeting, too.

Vogue may still be its bible, but the fashion world has been searching for it next medium in the digital world for years — blogging was always tough from the coveted front row, and even as Instagram spawned its own trend stories, it was always kind of a blurry incomplete picture of the Runway, if more visual than Twitter. …

A 14-Year-Old Girl Has Been Promised $200 if She Stays Off Site

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli woman has turned to Facebook to beat a parking ticket — and expose a Tel Aviv road crew.

SRINAGAR, India - Three people have been arrested in Indian-controlled Kashmir for allegedly threatening the first Kashmiri all-girl rock band, which disbanded after its debut concert following abusive comments on social media and a demand from a top Muslim cleric that they stop performing, police said Thursday.

Sean Eldridge, an investor and the husband of Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, has filed paperwork establishing a campaign for New York’s 19th Congressional District seat in 2014. Eldridge, who is a frequent donor to Democratic candidates and committees, has publicly backed President Barack Obama and hopes to...