As Facebook was negotiating a half-billion-dollar investment from Goldman Sachs recently, MySpace, once the dominant Web site for social networking, was preparing to fire nearly half its staff. The layoffs, which cut nearly 500 employees from a payroll of close to 1,100, were announced Tuesday. The...

Twitter, empresa radicada en San Francisco, está atrapada en una encrucijada. Un juzgado de Virginia ha exigido a esta red social datos confidenciales de cuatro de sus usuarios relacionados con Wikileaks, la fundación que facilitó en diciembre pasado la publicación de 250.000 cables de la diplomacia...

The Federal Communications Commission appears poised to pass a controversial set of rules that broadly create two classes of Internet access, one for fixed-line providers and the other for the wireless Net. The proposed rules of the online road would prevent fixed-line broadband providers like Comcast...

Eric Sheptock has 4,548 Facebook friends, 839 Twitter followers, two blogs and an e-mail account with 1,600 unread messages. What he doesn’t have is a place to live. “I am a homeless homeless advocate,” he often tells people. That’s the line that hooks them, the one that gives...

Signaling a sea change in the debate over Internet privacy, the government’s top consumer protection agency on Wednesday advocated a plan that would let consumers choose whether they want their Internet browsing and buying habits monitored. Saying that online companies have failed to protect the...

Level 3 Communications, a central partner in the Netflix online movie service, accused Comcast on Monday of charging a new fee that puts Internet video companies at a competitive disadvantage. Level 3, which helps to deliver Netflix’s streaming movies, said Comcast had effectively erected a tollbooth...

Cuando se acaba de leer La cultura-mundo, de Gilles Lipovetsky y Jean Serroy (Anagrama 2010, traducción de Promoteo-Moya), la desazón es terrible. Y lo es no por lo que se cuenta, ya sabido, sino por la constatación documental y fehaciente de los males que acucian hoy a la cultura. No a la cultura...

Facebook made oversharing with a small army of friends a mainstream activity. Now, one of its early architects is swinging in the other direction. Dave Morin, who helped build Facebook Connect and the Facebook Platform, left the company this year to start his own venture, called Path. He says it...

La organización Estemos Unidos Mexicanos lanzó un llamado a la acción para recuperar la seguridad en el país. A través de su blog, la agrupación propone a la ciudadanía un “Plan Maestro de Recuperación de la Seguridad” con el fin convocar a la mayor cantidad de personas posible...

Police are investigating whether the author of a guide for pedophiles did anything illegal even as they try to protect him from a threat posted on a local website. Phillip Ray Greaves II of Pueblo has drawn national attention because his self-published book for sale on Amazon offers advice to pedophiles...