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Users in China are reporting that access to LinkedIn has been blocked throughout the country.

Citizens of the cyberworld breathed a collective sigh of relief Thursday, when Facebook banned a new app that notifies you of relationship status updates for others -- an app widely described as a cyberstalking tool.

All the people who use these clients on Android, Blackberry and IOS were no longer able to gain access to the popular social network from their mobile device.

Long-form blogs were once the outlet of choice, but now sites like Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr are favored.

Ignighter.com, a site for organizing group dates, wasn’t bringing in much traffic in the U.S. But the founders noticed that it was adding thousands of users a day in India.

Kraft's Oreo brand tries to set the Guinness record for Facebook likes.

Executives at microblogging company Twitter Inc. have held "low level" talks with executives at Facebook Inc and Google Inc in recent months, about a possible takeover of Twitter, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.

New York City's prostitutes have gotten the Facebook bug. City sex workers are now increasingly plying their trade on Facebook, after popular classifieds website Craigslist shut its Erotic Services section last year, according to a recent study.

Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his "The Social Network" doppelganger Jesse Eisenberg made friends on "Saturday Night Live."

LinkedIn Corp., the company behind the largest website for professional networking, plans to raise at least $175 million in an initial public offering of stock that could open the IPO floodgates for other widely used online services that connect people with common interests....