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Starting tomorrow, Facebook insiders will be able to start selling some of their pre-IPO shares. Here are seven big holders.

Some of the key figures from the worlds of computer science, business and politics who came together to defeat the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act.

Google is considering a bid for the mobile mapping and navigation company, Bloomberg reports. Could this be a play to keep Facebook out of its domain?

The video streaming service has supposedly been courting buyers over the past couple of years and now it looks like the first round of bids may be in.

Twitter just got it. Apple recently got it, too. Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon have had it for a while. But why's two-factor authentication important, and will it keep you safe?

The arrangement lets marketers and researchers buy access to each and every check-in as it happens.

UCLA Health welcomed the world to watch a brain surgery through live Vine videos and Instagram photos posted on Twitter.

An investigation by the Federal Trade Commission is in the "preliminary stages," according to Bloomberg. Sources say it might not turn into a bigger probe.

The company is using computer vision and machine learning technologies to return you and your friends' G+ photos in search.

The social network showcases its latest purchase -- a developer platform -- to remind developers that it values outside apps.

Canon has patented a color-sensitive multi-layered sensor design, showing the company is still pursuing the technology. Like Sigma's Foveon chips, the multi-layered design allows each of the sensor's pixels to capture color information without the need for colored filters. The patent, discovered by the Japanese Engineering Accomplishment blog, suggests a system to promote resonance within the sensor, in an attempt to make the lower layers of the sensor more sensitive. (from Egami blog)

If you've never had the chance to stand in the front row and shoot a live concert, Montreal-based photographer Pierre Bourgault has the next best thing. He attached a GoPro camera to the top of his Canon DSLR and recorded a seven-minute video of his shooting experience at a Dead to Me concert. He then overlaid the actual photos taken at the show, which you can view after the break.

Someone out there could have a missing copy of the world's first Web site from 1990. Have you checked your old floppies lately?

The online giant's chief executive lists more than a dozen areas where the company is pumping its money, suggesting continued pressure on profit margins as it continues to seek new markets.

Bring on the hard hats. The social network is in construction-only mode, working to repair its Android software suite before trying to take over more phones.

Designed for 802.11ac wireless, the new 5G chips are being targeted for entry-level devices.

Leica has placed a teaser on its Facebook page for a new 'Mini M' camera to be launched on June 11th, that apparently will slot into its range between the M rangefinder and the X2 fixed-lens compact. It's given no other details, but we think it could make sense for the company to produce a full-time live view version of the M Typ 240, using the same sensor but with the expensive rangefinder assembly removed. This would result in a 24MP full frame mirrorless camera that would be able to use almost any manual focus SLR or rangefinder lens ever made, without a field-of-view crop. 

A partnership newly dubbed Twitter Amplify will see more companies integrate video clips and ads into their tweets.

The online company, which earlier this week announced it had reached a deal to buy Tumblr, has now purchased PlayerScale.

A 12th-grader has been named the 2013 U.S. Doodle 4 Google national winner for her drawing of her father returning home from Iraq.