Shares in Facebook continued their sharp slide, extending their dip this week to around 10% that has cost CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg around $10bn (€8bn) in paper losses.

A young academic is challenging the effectiveness of US competition law in controlling the rise of a new generation of corporations, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

The US House of Representatives has voted to block online privacy regulations issued during the final months of the Obama administration, a first step towards allowing internet providers to sell the browsing habits of their customers.

Iconic toy company Lego has launched a new social network app for children under 13, as noted in an article from Engadget.

Uber Technologies is paying 20 million dollars (£16.2 million) to settle allegations that it duped people into driving for its ride-hailing service.

The EU and United States should reach agreement next month on a new framework to replace the Safe Harbour pact enabling data transfers from Europe to the United States, European Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova told a newspaper.

Google is back under US antitrust scrutiny as officials ask whether the tech giant stifled competitors’ access to its Android mobile-operating system, said two people familiar with the matter.

A revenge porn king wants a squeaky clean Google record. Craig Brittain raked in thousands of dollars by posting naked photos of women online. Now, he wants his own revenge: on the websites that wrote about him.

USA:Officers in western Oregon say a suspect they tried to collar at a traffic stop drove too fast for pursuing officers, but eventually he proved just too fragrant for freedom.

FTC says the company has not done enough to stop kids making unauthorised purchases, writes Joe Kloc

Snapchat has agreed to settle with the US Federal Trade Commission over charges that it deceived customers about the disappearing nature of messages sent through its service and that it collected users’ contacts without telling them or asking permission.

Parents hit with hundreds of pounds in unexpected charges when their children bought virtual pet food, gems or other items while playing games on mobile devices will be getting refunds from Apple.

Google is offering major concessions on how it displays search results in Europe to meet concerns it might be abusing its dominant market position, the European Union’s competition body said today.

An investigation into a flood of illegal anti-abortion robocalls to thousands of homes in Ireland could stall — because of free speech protections in the US.

Computer owners in Ireland are among potentially thousands targeted by scammers who told them that their machines were infected by viruses and saying they would fix the problem for as much as €350.

Coldplay, Kylie Minogue, David Bowie and other prestigious artists are set to leave EMI after Universal’s £1.2bn takeover was approved today on condition it sells several of the recording company’s labels.

Google will pay $22.5m (€17.84m) to settle charges that it bypassed the privacy settings of customers using Apple’s Safari browser, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said yesterday.

Google is paying a record £14.4m (€18.18m) fine to settle allegations that it broke a privacy promise by secretly tracking millions of web surfers who use Apple’s Safari browser.

Google has agreed to pay a US $22.5 million (€18.3 million) fine to settle allegations that it broke a privacy promise by secretly tracking the online activities of millions of people who use Apple’s Safari web browser, sources said.

The popular daytime TV host hawks his son’s diet books on his show. Inside the McGraws’ cosy clan. Pat Wingert and Aram Roston report

A privacy watchdog group has complained to US regulators about Google’s new Buzz social networking service, saying it breaks consumer protection law.

A new online tool from Yahoo will let users see and edit the personal profiles the internet company compiles about them to target online advertising.

A widespread and unusually resilient computer attack that began on July 4 knocked out the websites of several US government agencies - including some responsible for fighting cyber crime, it emerged today.

Twenty-five years after the first AIDS cases jolted the world, US scientists think they soon may have a pill that could prevent HIV, the virus that causes the disease.

Japan's Fair Trade Commission (FTC) yesterday raided three Intel Japanese offices as part of a probe into possible anti-trust violations.

Pharmaceutical companies Galen and Barr this morning announced that they have closed two out of the three parts of their outstanding deal originally announced last September, which was under FTC review.

REVENUES at pharmaceutical company Galen are expected to have doubled in the company’s first quarter — generating cash for further takeovers in 2004, Davy Stockbrokers believe.

Elan has said that US regulators have dropped part of an investigation into whether it tried to block unfairly a generic rival of Skelaxin, its muscle-relaxant medicine.

PFIZER INC, the world’s largest drugmaker’s €53.7bn takeover of Pharmacia Corp is not expected to result in any jobs losses at the enlarged company’s Irish production plants employing close to 1,500 people.

A US company today backed out of a €785m deal to buy the primary care business unit and two brand-name drugs from the Elan Corporation.

ELAN shares staged a remarkable recovery yesterday, gaining more than 15% just a day after it was asked to provide documents to the US trade regulator in a price-fixing investigation.

The $106bn merger of America Online and Time Warner has cleared its final government hurdle.