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Facebook created a rule book for moderators to use when censoring the posts of its nearly 2bn users, responding to global criticism for failing to prevent the circulation of images of violence, sex, hate speech and other controversial material

Google has been trying to move beyond advertising for some time, with mixed results. At its annual I/O developer conference this year, the company multiplied efforts to make money in

Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger said hackers claim to have stolen an unreleased film and are threatening to distribute it online if they aren’t paid a ransom. The company is declining to do so. Iger made the comments on Monday in a

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said he’s rejoining the company six years after he left, becoming the second creator to return to help revive the struggling social media service. In his new role, Stone will be focused on company culture

Samsung Electronics and Intel weighed in with their own gripes about Qualcomm while cheering on the US Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit accusing the chip maker of trying to corner the market for semiconductors

The cyberattack that spread rapidly around the globe was stifled when a security researcher disabled a key mechanism used by the worm to spread, but experts said the hackers were likely to return as many

Extortionist hackers who may be using leaked computer exploits from the US National Security Agency infiltrated computers in dozens of countries in a fast-spreading attack that forced British hospitals to turn

With a 94% year-to-date gain, and a single “coin” now worth US$1 843, bitcoin has been on a helluva run lately. The increase in the cost of the massively volatile electronic tokens has led to many