Mashable and TechCrunch report that Digg has acquired Kevin Rose's side project, WeFollow.

PALO ALTO, California (Reuters) - Facebook's chief operating officer said the social networking company was targeting a bigger ad market than the search ad market that has made Google Inc rich.

Google wants to shake up the digital book marketIT WAS a fitting place to announce an experiment in bookselling. At the Frankfurt book fair on Thursday October 15th, Tom Turvey of Google revealed plans for a new online service that will allow users to download electronic copies of books from the search giant or from publishers using its technology. Called Google Editions, the service will launch in the first half of next year and will trigger a head-to-head battle between Google and another web behemoth, Amazon, the current leader in the digital book arena.That arena is still tiny. The Association of American Publishers, an industry group, reckons that total book sales in America last year reached $24.3 billion, but e-books accounted for just $113m of that amount. Nevertheless those sales were 68% higher than the previous year and demand for digital texts is expected to rise steeply in coming years. The appetite for e-versions of books is being driven in part by a rapid expansion of th

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - I confess, my copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, the latest version of Microsoft's Windows franchise, was just that: a copy.

Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital uses the virtual world for disaster preparedness training, while disabled people turn to it for peer support.

Google has apologised for a miscommunication that led to reports of the company announcing new details about Chrome OS.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - I confess, my copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, the latest version of Microsoft's Windows franchise, was just that: a copy.

Ralph Szygenda takes a board seat as the application performance management firm prepares to acquire Gomez.

According to a survey commissioned by media watchdog Ofcom, half of young people in the UK think file-sharing should be legal.

Visits to social-networking site Facebook have increased by 86.1 per cent in the last year, according to research.