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A persistent group of European law students have forced Facebook to change its privacy practices. But they want more and are raising money to go to court.

There is a lot you can do with $166. For instance, spending a minute of time on the phone with Dallas Mavericks owner and investor Mark Cuban getting entrepreneurial advice.

We take a look at the party invitations Apple, Samsung, Google and others should send, but won’t.

Acknowledging that it “grew too fast” Y Combinator chief Paul Graham says the high-profile startup factory is cutting the number of startups it accepts into its classes from a current 84 to “less than 50″ for the Winter 2013 class.

Thanks to their mobile phones and tablets, Americans spent way more time on social media in 2012.

You might be sick of seeing Windows 8 and Surface ads, but they the aren’t the worst of Microsoft’s marketing efforts.

On the road with eBay Now, an experimental one-hour delivery service that eBay hopes will make it the company shoppers think of first as the place to get anything, anytime, anywhere.

Zynga’s special relationship with Facebook is all but over, the latest sign of a chill between the two social companies.

Twitter was slapped with a temporary restraining order after it tried to cut off the startup PeopleBrowsr. PeopleBrowsr says Twitter misled it with rhetoric about being an open platform.

Facebook Exchange is a sleeper hit for the social network, say partners. Facebook isn’t talking.

Sesame is taking shoppers out of stores with its gift-box app.

Rather than hazard the possibility of people quickly losing interest in its health tracker, Basis delayed its commercial launch for almost a year to get the system right.

Google’s social VP says Facebook and similar systems are often “patronizing” and intrusive.

Microsoft goes negative with an attack on Google’s paid product search results.

It’s been a great year for the Facebook platform, but Mike Vernal wants more. Facebook’s director of engineering tells us the social network is trying to pump up user posts, favoring longer stories and content and adding data that will …

A Bloomberg story says tech trickle-down is alive and well in San Francisco. But not everyone feels lifted by the rising tide.

After postponing its public market debut because of Superstorm Sandy (the irony of that can’t go unmentioned), SolarCity is on the verge of an IPO. Seven months after filing its prospectus, the company has priced its IPO shares between $13 …

Self-described health IT hacktivist and author Fred Trotter has hatched a plan to bring hidden healthcare data into the open.

In the age of the internets, people still sure do like going to the store.

A pointless copyright notice is circulating on Facebook again. Don’t be duped.