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The world saw Filipinos staged a mass rally against corruption that was organized via social media like Facebook and Twitter.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg would lead a project focused on making web access affordable for the 5 billion individuals worldwide who are not online yet.

Facebook Inc unveiled new project, Internet.org to provide online access to more people around the world.

Technology stocks experienced a fair gain with the help of Intel, Facebook and Apple.

A Gotland District Court Judge ruled to convict an 18 year old male for sending a friend request in social networking site Facebook.

According to cyber experts at RSA, the Zeus virus, widely utilized to embezzle credit card data, was recently altered to generate fake likes in Instagram and other social media sites.

The losses sustained by the owners of the NY Times because of the website being down is still to be calculated.

Shanghai Securities News said the Ministry of Public Security and a cabinet-level research center of China were preparing to investigate on EMC Corp, IBM Corp and Oracle Corp over security concerns.

Omega Advisors Inc sold its shares in Facebook and precious metals' companies and bought Apple shares after Apple's decline.

Facebook revealed the number of daily users from the US and UK to attract advertisers in spending more money in the social network.

Yelp added a new functionality, allowing everyone to write and edit full reviews through the Yelp mobile app.

Sheryl Sandberg sold around USD91 million worth of shares in the social networking site after Facebook topped its initial public offering price for the first time since May last year.

Facebook announced that it would acquire Mobile Technologies, a company focused in developing voice translation software.

The social media giant was the showcase for a murder and money.

Analyst Aaron Kessler said internet stocks' gains would continue because investors were more confident in new business models like mobile and community advertising.