The board of Yahoo! has agreed to a deal to purchase the popular blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

Technology - Business

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(Phys.org) —Sources from several Web hosting services this week raised an all-out alert: WordPress was under attack with at least 90,000 IP addresses involved to brute-force crack credentials of WordPress ...

Technology - Internet

Apr 14, 2013 4.3 / 5 (6) 8 |

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT researcher Scott Aaronson has certainly riled the physics community with his offer this past Friday, of $100,000 to anyone who can prove that scaled-up quantum computing is impossible. ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Feb 08, 2012 4.1 / 5 (16) 39 |

A group of 25 ordinary citizens on Friday presented to Iceland's parliamentary speaker a new constitution draft, which they compiled with the help of hundreds of others who chipped in online.

Technology - Internet

Jul 29, 2011 4.6 / 5 (5) 3

(Phys.org)—Nir Goldshlager writer of a security blog, is reporting that he found a vulnerability in Facebook's OAuth that allowed him full access to an individual's profile information. Facebook confirm ...

Technology - Internet

Feb 26, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

Facebook confirmed Friday it was dabbling with charging members as much as $100 to get messages to the inboxes of strangers such as social network co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg.

Technology - Internet

Jan 11, 2013 1 / 5 (1) 11

(Phys.org) -- A Microsoft engineer has spotted a botnet that targets Yahoo! Mail users using Android devices. Terry Zink , who also writes an Internet security blog, said he has evidence of a botnet running ...

Technology - Internet

Jul 04, 2012 3.7 / 5 (7) 2 |

Capturing the unruly, ever-changing Internet is like trying to pin down a raging river. But the British Library is going to try.

Technology - Internet

Apr 04, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 2

Google News, the news aggregation site run by the Internet search giant announced the launch of the @googlenews Twitter feed in a post on the Google News blog on Monday.

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Apr 28, 2009 not rated yet 0

The Chinese craze for micro-blogging has reached such dizzying heights that companies are now offering to help people boost their following and stand out from the crowd -- for a price.

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Aug 09, 2011 not rated yet 0

Twitter on Wednesday began to allow ads to be targeted at users based on the words written in 'tweets' and messages forwarded to followers at the popular social network.

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Apr 17, 2013 not rated yet 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using Facebook and Twitter may be good for a company's bottom line, but firms can rake in even bigger profits if they have their own virtual brand community, says a University of Michigan ...

Other Sciences - Economics & Business

Feb 03, 2012 1 / 5 (1) 0

Teachers are turning to twitter, blogging and Facebook as a way of keeping in touch with parents about their child's learning, and according to QUT education expert Associate Professor Margaret Lloyd it is ...

Other Sciences - Social Sciences

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Twitter said Tuesday it was expanding its advertising program to mobile users, the latest bid by the short-messaging service to boost its money-making efforts.

Technology - Internet

Feb 29, 2012 not rated yet 0

(AP) -- The Federal Trade Commission on Monday took steps to make product information and online reviews more accurate for consumers, regulating blogging for the first time and mandating that testimonials reflect typical ...

Technology - Internet

Oct 05, 2009 not rated yet 3