Pinterest is now the number three most-popular social network in the U.S., behind Facebook and Twitter, according to Experian Hitwise. A new report from the researcher shows Pinterest got 21.5 million visits during the week ending Jan. 28, a nearly 30-fold increase over a comparable week in July. ... Read more...

During at least one 420 celebration in Alaska on Friday, you’ll be invited to pour yourself a drink instead of lighting up. In the counterculture world, "420” is the code for cannabis consumption, and April 20 — or 4/20 — is the holy day. But instead of passing around a joint, wh... Read more...

This Zuckerberg guy uh... he's uh... pretty smart Facebook just bought Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. Instagram is a mobile-only photo-sharing app. It grew from 1 million users in January 2011 to 15 million in December 2011. It has 30 million users now. What's great about ... Read more...

Black, low-income youths struggling the most, with employment rate at historic depths Anjelica Pickett, 17, has been searching for a job for about a year. Despite making as many as five applications in a day during that time, Pickett, now a freshman at Truman College, said she's scored only one ... Read more...

The decision seven years ago by a Korean-American muralist and graffiti artist to turn down thousands of dollars in cash for his work painting murals on the walls of Facebook’s first office in Palo Alto, Calif., has made him a very, very, rich man. The artist, 35-year-old David Choe, gamble... Read more...

Twitter and Russian search engine Yandex have agreed a partnership that will allow Yandex to show new tweets in its search results almost instantly, as Twitter becomes an increasingly important source of real-time information. Twitter will give Yandex access to its so-called firehose of all pub... Read more...
Google Inc received U.S. antitrust approval to buy Motorola Mobility, a deal aimed at building up an arsenal of patents, and an Apple-led consortium also received the go-ahead to purchase a trove of patents from bankrupt Canadian company Nortel Networks, the Justice Department said. The depar... Read more...

Zuckerberg 2016? Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a 28.4 percent in his company but also controls 57.1 percent of the voting shares. He pulled this off by handing out $100 bills. Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is one good negotiator. As I noted when Facebook filed... Read more...

Kodak’s patents could come in handy in the ongoing patent wars. All smartphones have digital photography technology. Eastman Kodak is prepping for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing that could put an interesting twist in the patent wars. According to the Wall Street Journal, Kodak is looking for $... Read more...