Running the rule over fellow airline passengers; it's as common as stowing your bag under the seat in front of you and fastening your seat belt.
Google gets a new privacy policy. CNN's Lisa Sylvester reports.
If you use Google, and I know you do, you may have noticed a little banner popping up at the top of the page announcing: "We're changing our privacy policy and terms." It gives you the choice to "Learn More" or, another option, the one I'm betting most people followed, to "Dismiss."
Pinterest is the breakout social network of 2012, but even technology addicts could be excused for missing its rise to success.
Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic.
On this week's Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg break down what Facebook's $5 billion initial public offering reveals about the site.
Facebook users receive more comments, messages and likes -- the hugs and high-fives of social networking -- than they give, according to a new study.
Facebook has played a big role in the private trading markets that allow eligible investors the chance to snap up shares of hot Internet companies years before they go public.
Facebook has finally filed for an IPO, but it likely won't start trading for months. For those who can't wait to gamble on the stock market, bookies are accepting bets.
CNNMoney looks at the people who make up the biggest investors in Facebook.
Just as the Netscape IPO inaugurated the dotcom mania of the 90s, so Facebook's imminent IPO will trigger a hysteria with the social web. But the most interesting question isn't whether Facebook is actually worth $100 billion or how many billions of dollars Mark Zuckerberg will personally bank -- but whether or not Facebook really will make the world a better place for its close to a billion users.
Facebook has finally filed to raise $5 billion through a public offering. But it hardly needs the cash: The company already has almost $4 billion stashed in its piggy bank.
Now that Facebook has finally filed for its much anticipated initial public offering, the enthusiasm for other social media investments has spread like wildfire.
Facebook is a great company. It proved that in its IPO filing. A billion dollar annual profit and $3.9 billion in cash for something that didn't even exist 10 years ago? That's impressive.
At long last, the Holy Grail of Internet IPOs is here. Facebook filed Wednesday to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering.
The social media site seeks $5 billion in an initial public offering.
Whenever a hugely popular and successful company goes public, many people wonder what will happen to all the newly created millionaires. What will they do now that they are financially "set for life"? Will there be "1,000 millionaires"? Will they suffer "sudden wealth syndrome"?
At age 27, Mark Zuckerberg is about to officially become a paper billionaire.
U.S. stocks were set for a timid open Thursday as traders await comments from Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke, and keep a wary eye on Greece's debt talks.
Facebook, which launched its blockbuster initial public offering Wednesday, is the undisputed social media king of the U.S. and Europe.
Like a good friend, Facebook says it doesn't want to invade our privacy or hang out with folks who spend all their time looking at a cell phone.
Analysts are divided over whether Facebook stock will be a good buy. Maggie Lake reports.
With Facebook's announcement Wednesday that it will become a publicly traded company, lots of folks were talking about it.
Facebook filed Wednesday to raise $5 billion in an initial public offering. Here is CEO Mark Zuckerberg's letter to potential investors.
If there's a crown jewel in the world of initial public offerings, it's Facebook.
U.S. stocks rose Wednesday, but closed off the highs of the day, on a combination of improved economic data and easing concerns about Europe's debt crisis.
Facebook's long-awaited IPO filing is imminent, according to several news reports.
We all knew he'd eventually get around to it: Mark Zuckerberg is expected to finally bring Facebook public. The company is reported to be preparing to file for an IPO -- initial public offering -- through which anyone will be able to buy shares of the social networking company on an open stock exchange.
Social networking giant Facebook may soon file papers to go public. CNN's Ramy Inocencio reports.
Facebook may be gearing up for one of the biggest initial public offerings ever, but it may get a bargain in at least one part of the deal: bank fees.
Maybe the euro isn't doomed after all?
A long list of tech IPOs captured attention in 2011, but no company has been drooled over like Facebook. And finally, its debut looks to be imminent.
It was supposed to be a unique way to engage with their fans via social media -- but for Germany's most successful soccer club it turned into the ultimate public relations own goal.
Don't fear "Timeline." CNN's Karin Caifa sorts out the myths and calms anxieties about Facebook's new look.
Facebook announced in a blog post Tuesday that Timeline will be coming to all users in the next few weeks.
Just as the politics of oil shaped the 20th century industrial economy, so the politics of data will shape the 21st century digital economy.
In a big swerve in policy, Google has decided to allow people to sign up using nicknames or other pseudonyms on its growing social network, Google+.
In the days following Tunisian dictator Zine el Abidine Ben Ali's ousting last January, some media reporting on the so-called "Jasmine Revolution" presented the internet as the unique factor that led to the fall of his authoritarian regime.
Phone and tablet owners used to spend most of their time surfing the Web.
Google's infant social network experienced a recent growth spurt.
Joining "likes" on Facebook, the social network has added dozens of new types of posts, including "bought," "read" and "want."
To overcome her social phobia, Arlynn Presser set out to meet hundreds of her Facebook friends.
Your friends don't need to know about every song you hear on the radio.
At this very moment, 500 miles above your freckle-pocked head, a half-million pieces of junk are orbiting around the Earth.
There's nothing illegal about being so big that you dominate a market.
Recently, a reader dropped the following query into our inbox:
Google search is about to get way more personal.
CNN's Iowa caucus coverage turned into a series of surprises, laughs and a new identity as "CNN After Dark."
For years, bloggers and other netizens have repeated: "A link is not an endorsement."
When it comes to IPOs, 2012 will be the year of Facebook.
Think your programming skills are world class? Facebook wants you to prove it at its second annual Hacker Cup challenge.
If your New Year's resolutions have lasted this long, congratulations. You're 1/366th of the way home.
Health experts are seeing increased number of people with injuries from their phones. CBC News' Sarah Konsmo reports.
In 2012, a strong Web presence must be part of every political hopeful's strategy.
CNN's Ali Velshi looks at how often the GOP presidential candidates are mentioned on social media sites.
Perhaps it's the inherently soul-crushing nature of the holiday season, but it seems many of our readers have been beset by quandaries of late. So, being the utterly benevolent souls that we are, we're choosing to devote this week's column to more reader questions.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg explains Facebook's new apps that allow users to connect in different ways.
Your photo-happy friends may be capturing posed group shots and crazy candids at New Year's Eve parties this weekend, but sometimes you just don't want to be photographed.
An Arizona couple remained in custody Saturday morning after police said they duct taped the wrists, ankles and mouths of their two children and posted the photos on Facebook.
The Google+ social network has topped 60 million users, according to Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen, who also made the bold prediction late Tuesday that Google+ would reach 400 million users by the end of 2012.
I'm a tweeting fiend. Whether it's quoting Herman Cain or issuing citations for the fashion police -- clear heels to work, really? -- I'm always thumb-typing away.
Be honest: has Facebook chat ever been your favorite form of instant messaging?
A father is charged with battery for posting a picture of his one-year-old daughter bound and gagged on Facebook.
A man who allegedly gagged and bound his toddler's arms and legs with tape and posted a photo of her on Facebook is "devastated by the situation," his attorney told CNN Thursday.
A 21-year-old man in Chicago is charged with battery after allegedly binding his toddler's wrists, ankles and mouth with tape and posting a photo online.
Fortune: Wal-Mart's makeoverupdated: Mon Dec 19 2011 11:50:00
What happened to the smiley face? It's long gone from Wal-Mart marketing after years as the corporate symbol, and its disappearance is part of a much larger story. It's hard to believe, but for decades the world's largest retailer wasn't much of a marketer. It spent little on marketing, and its efforts, epitomized by the grinning circle, could be charitably called down-home and realistically described as amateurish. Change finally began four years ago when Stephen Quinn was made chief marketing officer of Wal-Mart U.S. He exiled the smiley face to the land of e-mail emoticons and developed a new theme -- "Save money. Live better" -- that became a statement of corporate purpose. Current TV commercials actually include some wit while hammering home the message.
Turns out there's billions to be made from FarmVille cows and crops. Zynga priced its initial public offering at $10 a share late Thursday, a mark that values the gamemaker at about $7 billion.
Worry no more about who may be sitting next to you in seat 23A.
CNN's Richard Question explains KLM's plan for social media seating selections.
People around the world began seeing messages from Facebook on Thursday encouraging them to start scrapbooking their life.
Groupon, LinkedIn and Pandora may have all plunged from the prices they hit on their first day of trading.
A group in Cairo is using a Facebook page to unite Egypt's different religions at a local coffeehouse in the upper-class suburb of Maadi.
A group of friends from different religious backgrounds are meeting for coffee to help change perceptions in Egypt.
Computer networks can't feel or understand jokes, but software engineers have hardwired some compassion.
Google isn't Facebook. There. We got that out of the way. Now let's move on.
Google made its first foray into the growing field of social facial recognition technologies on Thursday, introducing Find My Face, a tagging suggestion tool for its Google+ social network.
A Michigan mayor has apologized for anti-gay comments she apparently posted on Facebook over the summer.
Troy, Michigan, Mayor Janice Daniels has apologized for anti-gay comments she apparently posted on Facebook.
Indians expressed outrage Tuesday at a top telecommunication official's push to get social media sites to screen content considered defamatory to religious and political leaders.
What's been described as a bug in some new computer code briefly allowed Facebook users to snoop on the private pictures of other members.
One great-grandmother uses Facebook to keep in touch with family. Matt Neagle reports.
Facebook just purchased a service for sharing your location with friends, according to a CNNMoney report.
CNNMoney: Facebook buys Gowallaupdated: Fri Dec 02 2011 20:40:00
Facebook has acquired location sharing service Gowalla for an undisclosed sum, according to a source close to Gowalla.
Facebook routinely gets itself in hot water over privacy issues, a problem that led this week to a settlement with federal regulators and an agreement that Facebook will undergo regular audits of its compliance with its privacy promises.
There's essentially three options for a tech venture outgrowing its startup days: Get big, get bought or go broke. Sensing hard times ahead, a growing number of entrepreneurs are casting around for suitors and a shot at door #2.
Think your Facebook status updates are pretty dramatic? If you act soon, you may entice a troupe of improv artists to stage them for the world.
If Facebook and Wall Street become friends, will you like it?
We've been netiquette'ing for more than a year and a half now, and when we ask friends/acquaintances/the gaping maw of the Internet for their burning questions and column suggestions, one anxiety pops up again and again and again. Here it is, in Mad Libs form:
Facebook has agreed to 20 years of privacy audits to settle a lengthy complaint from the Federal Trade Commission, which says Facebook misled its members about its use of their private data.
Paul Adams is one of Silicon Valley's most wanted. He's an intellectually minded product designer with square-framed glasses, a thick Irish accent, and a cult following of passionate techies. As one of Google's lead social researchers, he helped dream up the big idea behind the company's new social network, Google+: those flexible circles that let you group friends easily under monikers like "real friends" or "college buddies." He never got to help bring his concept to consumers, though. In a master talent grab last December, Facebook lured him 10 miles east to Palo Alto to help design social advertisements. On his blog, Adams explained, "Google values technology, not social science."
Reports have surfaced again in the past week that Facebook is working on a phone.
If your post-Thanksgiving shopping plans don't involve leaving the house, you're in increasingly good company. And Web sellers are saying, "Step right in."
In the Facebook age -- when digital "friends" are just a click away -- the distance between people seems to be shrinking, according to data the social network released on Monday night.
Facebook is working with HTC to develop a phone that has a much deeper integration with the social network than any previous "Facebook phone." That's according to a report from All Things D, which says the phone is probably 12 to 18 months away from hitting store shelves.
Facebook's Ticker, the fast-scrolling tote board of pretty much everything your friends are doing, is ready to start selling you stuff.
On this week's Tech Check podcast, Doug Gross, John Sutter and Stephanie Goldberg break down the big news from Facebook. Namely, porn.
Social payments are taking a giant leap forward. PayPal has unveiled a Facebook app that lets you send money to friends.
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