In 1997, SixDegrees.com was the first real attempt at social networking, creating a space where users could upload their information and list their friends. The site peaked at approximately 3.5 ...

Erin Simpson, associate director for technology policy at Washington, D.C.–based think tank The Center for American Progress, had a message for Facebook. Last year, she co-wrote a pair of reports ...

Facing heightened scrutiny for its social media policies and relentless quest for growth, Facebook is now turning its attention to getting more people high-speed internet access in hard-to-reach ...

Before the News Feed, we navigated the internet at our leisure. But one day in 2006, it started organizing itself around us. In the early morning hours of Sept. 5, 2006, before the sun came up, ...

I didn’t want to write my last editor’s letter of 2019 about Facebook. Honestly. For a while it looked as if WeWork founder Adam Neumann would be a good lens through which to examine the year in tech.

Shara Tibken was a managing editor at CNET News, overseeing a team covering tech policy, EU tech, mobile and the digital divide. She previously covered mobile as a senior reporter at CNET and also ...

Facebook announced last year that it’s leading a squad of technology companies in a campaign to get the world’s estimated 4 billion disconnected people onto the Internet — and new data from Pew ...