Yahoo is indeed preparing to lay off employees, in a reduction in force that will be done in December. But the layoffs, first reported in TechCrun... read more »
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editor's notebook If you took the countless number of Facebook "status updates," or out-loud thoughts, that are plastered on the site every day and ... read more »
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Music-sharing service Grooveshark responded late today to having its Android app dumped from the Android Market, saying it wasn't sure why, exac... read more »
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Online spending on Black Friday increased nearly 16 percent compared with last year, with social networking sites gaining momentum as a source for s... read more »
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They placed him alongside Nicolas Cage. They lined him up shoulder-to-shoulder with Russell Brand. With a callous twitch of their eyelinered faces, t... read more »
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13-year-old Rebecca Black must be wondering about the deeper machinations of the human mind this weekend. Especially the human mind as it reveals its... read more »
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Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the Minnesota woman who has been fighting the recording industry over 24 songs she illegally downloaded and shared online four... read more »
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Pink Visual is an adult-film studio that doesn&39't think litigation will stop piracy. The company is focused on making legal purchases so conveni... read more »
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Few companies have changed the e-commerce world in the recent past as much as Groupon, a local-deals broker that has gotten the nation hooked on ha... read more »
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Gawker&39's new look for 2011 (Credit: Screenshot by Josh Lowensohn/CNET) Web publisher Gawker Media plans to drastically change the way users ... read more »
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As Facebook approaches another subscriber milestone, its growth seems to be slowing. The social-networking giant had 687 million users at the s... read more »
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This looks better than the iPad&39's or iPhone&39's notification system, doesn&39't it (Credit: PreCentral.net) A few weeks ago, HP released its... read more »
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Skype still operates in China, and the Chinese government has not indicated publicly that it intends to ban the service there. Yet a week after ... read more »
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Will the overly computer literate stop at nothing until they have rent society's fabric asunder Will they spend their days and nights in constant di... read more »
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Andreessen Horowitz has invested more than $80 million in Twitter via purchasing stock in private secondary markets. When called about it by BoomTo... read more »
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The note that greeted visitors to Netflix.com tonight. (Credit: Screen shot by Steven Musil/CNET) Netflix suffered an outage for at least two ... read more »
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Microsoft&39's latest &34'I&39'm a PC&34' ad, showing &34'Julie&34' with her new PC. (Credit: Screenshot by Don Reisinger/CNET) Microsoft is launc... read more »
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There seems currently to be a debate about whether we should all have one identity online (as Mark Zuckerberg would prefer) or whether we should be a... read more »
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Sources claim Barnes &' Noble has captured 50 percent of the non-Apple tablet market in North America. (Credit: Barnes &' Noble) For compe... read more »
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Before and after the quake, Arahama in Sendai. (Credit: Google, ABC, GeoEye) It's a startling picture of how dramatic and destructive Friday's... read more »
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