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What Google is doing with your information, and why it’s really doing so, are up for debate, and Android is at the core of that debate.

Google knows that it's been a very, very bad boy.

The wealthiest investor in the Arab world invests $300 million in Twitter, just months after the microblogging service received $800 million from Russian venture fund DST.

Earlier this year, Facebook let the world know it was undertaking a new Social Ads program which would allow advertisers to "pair their ads with their social actions". This whipped up privacy watchdogs into a lather, mostly since Facebook's previous attempts at this sort of thing included the doomed Beacon. That service had to be discontinued after a class-action lawsuit demanded its death over those same privacy concerns. Now, it looks like Facebook has taken the lessons learned from those mistakes and gotten it right.

If HP wants to succeed in making the TouchPad the go-to tablet for business, it needs more developers, and not necessarily a sales pitch from celebrity Russell Brand.

Twitter is introducing ads into the live stream of messages, according to the Financial Times. The addition of "promoted tweets" -- a euphemism for advertising -- within the live Twitter stream is bound to frustrate many users, at the same time as it attracts businesses looking to reach some of the company's 300 million users.

You gotta hand it to Facebook scammers. Every time the social network introduces a new way to share your information against your will, some devious slimeball figures out how to game it in order to make money.

It isn’t often I get contacted by Facebook about my posts here at TY4NS. But it happened today when I got a call from spokesperson Brandon McCormick.

Celebrities and technology don't always go hand in hand. Just look to these 20 odd endorsements for the proof.

Why bother watching the ads during the game? Watch them now on the Interweb!

Gmail's text-based advertisements are so unobtrusive that they're sometimes unnoticeable, which might explain why Google is now testing display ads with color images.