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FACEBOOK FACTS More than 400 million active users Average user has 130 friends 70% of users outside the US Facebook set out its stall to unseat Google and be at the heart of the web experience as it becomes more social. The world’s largest social network unveiled a series of products at its developer conference…
Hundreds of computer geeks, most of them students putting themselves through college, crammed into three floors of an office building in an industrial section of Ukraine’s capital Kiev, churning out code at a frenzied pace. They were creating some of the world’s most pernicious, and profitable, computer viruses.
YouTube has become a metaphor for the democratizing power of the Internet and information
Everyone understands that China deserves a big say in what goes on in its neighborhood. But what most people haven’t noticed yet is that Beijing also wants to write—or, at least, help write—new rules of the road for the world. “China now wants a seat at the head of the table,” says Cheng Li, director…