It's been over five months since MySpace launched MySpace Music--so how's it doing? "Our traffic is huge," MySpace Music president Courtney Holt told CNET News in an interview. "Our usage is very high. People are doing a lot of different things with music on our platform." There are currently over f...

A while back we predicted that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was in danger of losing his title as the world's youngest billionaire due to the maddening ascent of teen diva Miley Cyrus. But, Forbes magazine says, Mark Zuckerberg, who's just shy of his 25th birthday, has indeed lost his title as th...

Updated at 1:25 p.m. PDT. Google-owned video-sharing site YouTube is silencing music videos in the U.K. after negotiations with the country's Performing Right Society (PRS for Music), which collects licensing fees for artists and labels, failed. "Our previous license from PRS for Music has expired, ...

Considering all the horror stories we hear about photos hosted on Facebook and people, you know, losing their jobs over them, maybe this isn't such a bad thing: The social network acknowledged in a blog post on Sunday evening that 10 percent to 15 percent of the billions of photos it hosts were affe...

No, it's not Atlantis, and it's not an alien seaweed farm either. (Credit: Google Earth) Guess this is the kind of tech news people really want to read. There was an overwhelming response to our post about Google denying that its Google Earth ocean-floor mapping software had unearthed the my...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/travel_places/OMG_Did_Google_Earth_find_Atlantis'; Google is officially denying widespread Internet rumors that its Google Earth software located the mythical sunken city of Atlantis off the coast of Africa. Either that, or Google is totally trying to hide something. Sinc...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/television/Hulu_We_re_evil_and_proud_of_it'; Note: Spoiler alert, if you haven't seen Hulu's Super Bowl ad. Google's "don't be evil" motto has been the target of the occasional critic. Hulu, however, has declared in its hyped-up Super Bowl TV ad that it is evil--and it's ...

(Credit: ComScore) The blogosphere's love affair with Facebook-MySpace traffic wars just won't stop. On Thursday, TechCrunch posted new statistics from ComScore that show Facebook now pulling in nearly twice as many unique visitors worldwide as its News Corp.-owned competitor. About 222 million peop...

Yodle, a New York-based company that helps small businesses generate leads and power local advertisements, on Monday announced that it has raised a $10 million Series C funding round. Led by Jafco Ventures, the round was completed with contributions from the Draper Fisher Jurvetson Growth Fund, and ...

With all the buzz about Facebook Connect this week, it's worth asking the question: Whatever happened to OpenID? The universal log-in standard was created in 2005 by Brad Fitzpatrick, founder of LiveJournal, while he was working at blog software company Six Apart. (Fitzpatrick now works at Google; S...