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MySpace, bought by the News Corporation six years ago for $580 million, has been sold to Specific Media for about $35 million, two executives with knowledge of the sale said Wednesday.

News Corp.'s talks to sell most of Myspace have narrowed to two leading bidders, the ad-targeting firm Specific Media and Golden Gate Capital. Any deal would include hundreds of job cuts at the struggling social-networking website.

Ever since it debuted as TheFacebook in early 2004, the world's largest social network has undergone design changes both big and small...

Google took its biggest leap yet onto Facebook’s turf on Tuesday, introducing a social networking service called the Google+ project — which happens to look very much like Facebook.

Pope Benedict XVI has tweeted for the first time, announcing the launch of a Vatican news information portal.

With Facebook, if you think your child needs you to find a birth parent, you are fooling yourself.

When the Rockville Central blog wanted to increase its readership, the owners looked to Facebook’s 750 million members and thought: Let’s move everything there.

It once promised to redefine music, politics, dating, and pop culture. Rupert Murdoch fell in love with it. Then everything fell apart...

There is a seemingly endless number of feeds and folks to follow on Twitter, but if you're interested in engaging, entertaining tweets that will keep you updated on all things literary, begin with these.

If you don't want Facebook to automatically identify you in photos posted by friends, you must opt out. It's a bit tricky, so we'll walk you through the process. If you haven't seen it yet, Facebook's new facial-recognition software is a crafty feature.