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It may be hard to believe in our current overheated cable news climate, but in the days and months after Sept. 11 -- and in the weeks following the 2003 invasion of Iraq -- CNN was actually doing its best to provide in-depth reporting and analysis of the Middle East. CNN International's Octavia Nasr...

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With the introduction of advanced smartphones, e-readers and tablets, it's hardly surprising that consumption of online content has grown exponentially. This has caused turmoil within the media industry. Traditional advertising revenues are declining as new marketing options are emerging. Print medi...

Google is getting ready to launch a brand-new social network called "Google Me," according to a rumor circulated Saturday on Twitter by Digg Founder Kevin Rose. "Ok, umm, huge rumor," Rose wrote in his tweet. "Google to launch facebook competitor very soon 'Google Me,' very credible source." Google ...

As social networks strive to become mainstream, profitable businesses, they are bound to experience some growing pains. For Facebook, figuring out how to turn all the information its 400-million plus members are posting on the site into a steady revenue stream -- without drawing complaints about vio...

Social networking is becoming increasingly important as a business tool, with businesses moving toward concepts like Enterprise 2.0 and Web 2.0. This requires a new approach to application development, where capabilities for feeds and profiles are incorporated into apps during coding; apps become pu...

Social game developer Zynga has introduced its latest creation -- "FrontierVille" -- on Facebook. "FrontierVille" is similar to Zynga's immensely popular "FarmVille" in that players and their networks maintain a place -- in this case, a frontier outpost. The game starts with a covered wagon and plot...

Facebook is responding to yet another "clickjacking" attack, following similar attacks that reportedly impacted thousands over the weekend. This particular form of clickjacking baits the hook by purporting to link to a subject Facebook users might find interesting. The latest attack consists of a li...

The new privacy controls Facebook announced Wednesday were met with criticism the following day from privacy groups that called the new policies inadequate. In a conference call on Thursday, representatives of the groups insisted on a Federal Trade Commission investigation of the social networking g...

Amid all the controversy over online privacy, one thing has been treated as an almost universal given: Young people don't care about privacy the way their cautious, conservative elders do. As it turns out, the meme is kind of wrong. Younger Internet users are just as likely as many adults to worry a...

Facebook on Wednesday announced an overhaul of its privacy controls intended to make them simpler. This follows a barrage of criticism and weeks of pressure from various organizations and groups regarding recent changes the social networking site made to its privacy settings. "The number one thing w...

Try Googling the phrase, "Is Facebook losing members over privacy?" You'll see seven of the top eight search results answering in the affirmative, as various headline writers take advantage of recent controversies regarding the world's biggest social network and its customers' profile data. A deeper...

This week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised users that better solutions for privacy concerns will be released soon. It's the young executive's most recent attempt to quell anger over the company's decisions to force users to delete information if they wish to keep it private and to automaticall...

Complaints about Facebook's privacy practices and policies have been building toward a new crescendo, with growing interest on the part of Congress and regulators, as well as a budding viral movement to quit the network. In an effort to cut through the din, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg decided t...

Was it only four years ago that the anti-Facebook crowd was backlashing against the concept of the News Feed? Time sure flies when you're accusing the world's biggest social network of invading its users' privacy. Forget about the current spasm of criticism; hating on Facebook has been the default s...

Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter have made the world smaller, allowing people located on different continents to connect and communicate as if they were next-door neighbors. At times, however, the conversations taking place on these new technology platforms can offend some of their users...

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