Facebook’s purchase last week of Instagram, maker of a mobile photo-sharing app, for a staggering $1 billion dropped a lot of jaws everywhere, particularly among high tech pundits.
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Instagram: Bubble, Bubble, High Tech Trouble?
The BLS data shows that the participation rate in the job market is at levels that have not been seen since the 1970′s. In March of 2012 the work force participation percentage of all employees (male and female) was at 63.8% according to the BLS data.
When you’re using the Internet every day as most of us are, it’s hard to imagine a world without cyberspace, but that’s the case for 20 percent of American adults, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
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1 in 5 Americans are ‘Internet Innocents’
Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom is finding that the now-shuttered file-sharing website he ran isn’t the only thing that rubbed the U.S. government the wrong way — his choice of legal representation has, too
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Megaupload Founder Causes Uproar Over Lawyer Choice
Smartphone maker Nokia has issued a software update to resolve data connection problems reported by users of the new Lumia 900 and it is offering a $100 AT&T bill credit to anyone who currently owns the handset or buys it before April 21.
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Nokia Answers Lumia 900 User Complaints With Software Update, Bill Credit
Internet activists are sounding the alarms on the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, a bill that’s headed for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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CISPA: Just the Facts
As one of the web’s “big three” social networks, along with Facebook and Twitter, LinkedIn has grabbed its slice of the limelight as the space where professionals strategize their next career move. But that’s an unnecessarily limiting way to view this powerhouse network
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5 Ways to Put LinkedIn to Work for Your Business
The Paper for iPad design app may remind you of popular photo app Instagram, which Facebook has agreed to acquire for roughly $1 billion in cash and stock, and the new offering is creating a lot of buzz since it became available for download a few weeks ago from Apple’s App Store.
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App Draw: Will Paper for iPad be the Next Instagram?
Google has been slapped with a $25,000 fine by the Federal Communications Commission for impeding the agency’s investigation of some of the Internet search leader’s data gathering practices — a symbolic, but small penalty for a company worth $200 billion.
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Google Hit With $25K Fine, But FCC Finds Street View Data Collection Not Illegal
Separated from his family at age 5, Indian man uses the Web tool to track down the name of his village — and ultimately reunite with his mother. [Read more]
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Man uses Google Earth to find long-lost mother