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Story of the Week: Facebook introduces own app store

Shopping on Facebook for apps will soon be easier with the App Center, a new application storefront for users to buy and discover content. The social networking company announced the App Center this week following an amendment to its S-1 filing that...

Story of the Week: Facebook plays The Price is Right

These are busy times for Facebook. At the start of the week, the social networking company introduced a new feature for members to show their organ donation status. But the big news came on Thursday, as the social networking company announced that it w...

Story of the Week: Privacy advocates wary of CISPA

Three months after the defeat of SOPA, a new bill in Congress had internet users, privacy advocates and civil rights groups up in arms this week.  On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection A...

Story of the Week: Insta-billion

Fresh off its release on Android, Instagram, the photo sharing app, was snatched up by Facebook for a reported $1bn in cash and stock on Monday. The blogosphere was buzzing with part shock, part disgust. But above all, the deal was seen as an indi...

Story of the Week: Apple’s shares bear fruit

Spring cleaning was in the air for Apple this week as the company announced its plan to pay a dividend and institute a share buyback programme. The announcement had many tech commentators putting themselves in the shoes of Apple’s chief executive, Ti...

Story of the Week: Posterous joins the “flock”

As it turns its attention to making some serious money, Twitter recently moved to introduce ads on mobile apps. This week, however, the company decided to spend a little, with its acquisition of Posterous, a social blogging site. Posterous users wor...

Story of the Week: Apple refreshes the iPad

The iPad was on everyone’s lips this week, even if there was puzzlement over what exactly to call the third generation tablet. It was not the iPad 3 or iPad HD as expected, but “the new iPad,” according to Apple. …Continue reading:...

Story of the Week: Google looks to the future of search. Literally.

Gadget lovers may soon be adding glasses to their growing list of tech toys. This week, reports that Google will release “heads-up display glasses” by the end of the year spread quickly in the tech sphere. Though Google did not …Continue rea...

Story of the Week: Google feeds Safari cookies

Google’s latest privacy breach? Late in the week, a researcher at Stanford University discovered that Google and several other advertising companies were bypassing privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser. Although Google admitted it “now start...

Story of the Week: Path’s privacy concerns

This week, Path, the social networking app, faced criticism for storing users’ information after Arun Thampi, a developer, discovered his iPhone’s address book was uploaded to Path’s servers without his permission. While Dave Morin, CEO of Pa...

Story of the Week: Facebook’s IPO filing

This week, Facebook’s much-anticipated IPO filing gave a glimpse into the company’s financials and the thinking of its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg. For many commentators, the filing raised questions about whether Facebook can continue this pac...

Story of the Week: Apple starts 2012 with a bang

Apple has done it again. For a brief moment last week, following the announcement that it beat quarterly forecasts with record numbers, the Silicon Valley company once again became the world’s most valuable company. This time, though, things were dif...