All of those Twitter tweets and Facebook friends may have value after all, according to Penn State researchers.

With Facebook’s new version of Questions, brands and publishers now have a quick and easy way to survey customers and/or crowdsource information from readers.

Is President Obama the first U.S. President to be branded a techno-snob? Recent news seems to indicate so.

The farce that is the Department of Homeland Security’s attempts at stopping cyber crime continues. TorrentFreak has posted a follow-up on the poorly handled domain seizures of recent months.

Google has made an official announcement that the Panda algorithm update is now globally pushed live for all English-language users.

In a case of the pot calling the kettle black, software giant Microsoft has accused search giant Google of not being truthful about the security certification of its suite of software programs for governments.

For the past several years, a variety of start-up companies have been working, mostly unnoticed, to bring real-time local product inventory data to the internet. In November of 2010, Google joined that effort with local product search.

On March 30th, an incident was detected where approximately 2 percent of Epsilon clients’ customer data was exposed by an unauthorized entry into Epsilon’s email system

Google doesn’t make a dime of profit from you, so you aren’t the customer. In fact, all those cool products are just bait to get your information in the Google ecosystem so your attention and eyeballs can be sold to Google’s advertisers.

Google has always had a work hard/play hard mentality (have you SEEN their offices?!) and on perhaps no other day of the year is this more apparent than April 1st.