A woman who faked a pregnancy, kidnapped her infant nephew from his Wisconsin home, and left him alone in frigid temperatures last winter was sentenced on Monday to 25 years in federal prison, according to court records.
Last spring, U.S. Marine Corps Commandant General James Amos did not even know who Sheryl Sandberg was. Six months later he is good friends with Sandberg, the chief operating officer of social media company Facebook Inc (FB.O), a top advocate for empowering women to take on leadership roles.
Mobile messaging company Snapchat blamed third-party software apps for possible security lapses that may have led to its users' private photos being at risk of online publication by hackers.
The U.S. Supreme Court opens on Monday a new term in which the nine justices will decide issues such as whether a Muslim prison inmate can have a beard and whether a man can be prosecuted for making threatening statements on Facebook.
A Detroit-area teacher says she was fired from her post at a private Catholic all-girls high school after she and her lesbian partner announced they were expecting a child through non-traditional means.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd disclosed on Friday that it would pay $15.8 million in legal fees to law firm Simpson Thacher and other attorneys who advised the Chinese e-commerce giant on its upcoming IPO, six times what Facebook paid its counsel two years ago.
An Austrian law student said his class action challenging Facebook (FB.O) for alleged privacy violations had gathered support from 60,000 users and passed its first legal review.
Several social networks appeared to have missed the fact that the animal is a movie prop for a 20 year-old movie and that dinosaurs had long since been extinct hundreds of millions years ago. However, it never stopped users to lambast and call out Spielberg for his supposed trophy image.
A European data privacy group head told Bloomberg that Facebook could stand to receive a monumental fine, among other penalties should the result of the investigation launched by the group showed that the social media giant violated European laws on data privacy.
Several experts in the mobile market believed that antitrust regulators will go easy on their review of the $19 billion Facebook-Whatsapp deal, despite a $2 billion breakup fee attached in the agreement, Bloomberg said in a report.
The social media giant Fcebook has been hit with a new initial public offering (IPO) lawsuit. Investor Gaye Jones filed a new case against Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and the company's underwriters on Tuesday
