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A friend of mine, a weatherman for a local TV station, always greets me the same way: "Time to sell my Apple stock?" And I always offer the same response: Do you still like the company? "Yes." Then don't sell it. Investors were wringing their...

And with the opening bell, Facebook is now a publicly traded company, valued at more than $100 billion.  Financial strategist Clark Hodges bought shares from underwriters as the market openedm partly for its low price of $38 a share, but also because...

NEW YORK - To the ranks of New Coke and the Edsel, we can now add Qwikster. Less than a month after announcing a plan to separate its DVD-by-mail and Internet streaming services, Netflix reversed course Monday and said it would keep the two services...

Google, the most popular search engine, now has its own social networking site named Google Plus. Will it become the next Facebook? Eventually fizzle out like MySpace? Do we even need another social network at all? Rich DeMuro takes a look at the...

News Corp. has sold Myspace for $35 million, a fraction of what it paid for the once-hot social media site even as a new generation of Web-based start-ups is enjoying sky-high valuations. Advertising company Specific Media will team with the singer...

After the coffee. Before finding out if Whitey Bulger's apartment is available. The Skinny: Is it better to go into work and then get crushed with deadlines and pressure, or to know going in that it's going to be a......

Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com backslash blah-blah-blah and on Facebook at Facebook.com backslash blah-blah-blah. How many times a day can you hear those words? Well apparently not anymore in France. The government has banned TV and radio show...

Google shuts down Slide after 1 year, CEO Max Levchin departs: Google has closed down Slide, the social media app and game maker it purchased just about a year ago. And while many of Slide's employees will be sticking around at Google, joining other...

With his gaze fixed on a tiny screen, hearing plugged by earbuds and fingers flying, the average teenager may look like a disaster in the making: socially stunted, terminally distracted and looking for trouble. But look beyond the dizzying array of...

Positioning itself for a strong box-office run so long as audiences keep on pressing the 'like' button, Facebook drama "The Social Network" opened to $23 million at the box office this weekend. It took in more than twice as much......

• Jesse Eisenberg, star of "The Social Network," makes a startling confession to Anna David: "Look, I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting...

After the coffee. Before seeing if I had the Kansas City Chiefs going undefeated this season. The Skinny. In Monday's roundup: Sony's "The Social Network" takes the top spot at the box office, but don't look for Facebook co-founder Mark......