The file was left entirely unprotected - no encryption, no password, no safeguards - just a plain text document holding ...

Sixteen billion passwords to Apple, Facebook, Google, and other social media accounts, as well as government services, were ...

In one corner is Facebook, the reigning champion of the social web, trying to cement its position as the owner of everyone's online identity. In the other is Google (GOOG, Fortune 500), the ...

Sensitive information including logins to social media accounts was among the data exposed in what some believe is the ...

WASHINGTON— Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google agreed to “cooperate and assist one another” if they ever faced an investigation into their pact to work together in online advertising ...

Google desperately wanted to copy Facebook’s success on social media. Instead it may be left with a version of one of Facebook’s biggest failures. In 2011, as Facebook was rapidly approaching ...

When we do the archaeological dig of Google’s actual revenues during its private years, we discover similar pattern to Facebook’s: $86 million in 2001, $440 million in 2002, and $1.4 billion ...

Take, for example, the fact that Google has been known to tweak its search algorithm hundreds of times per year, or that the Facebook home page goes through major facelifts on a regular basis.This ...

Google has a clear edge globally, according to ComScore Data Mine: Google reached a billion unique visitors worldwide in May, while Facebook rang in at 713.6 million. Source: The Nielsen Company ...

Google’s long expected second shot at taking on Facebook in the social networking space has arrived in the form of the Google+ Project.It has some interesting twists on the social networking ...

Monkey Cage Conservatives say Google and Facebook are censoring them. Here’s the real background. The social media giants say they don’t want to regulate political speech.