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Board members of the Friends of Oakley , a nonprofit association in Contra Costa County, had collected toys and food for 300 needy families, including about 840 children.

If Facebook is like hanging out at a banquet with a large buffet to feast on, then social network Path is an intimate dinner with close friends.

Oakland, Calif. police investigate the scene of a multiple shooting, Monday, Nov.

Facebook, the world’s largest Internet social network, is preparing for a initial public stock offering next year, according to a source familiar with the matter.

The European Union wants to replace a mishmash of national laws on data protection with one bloc-wide reform, updating laws put in place long before Facebook and other social networking sites even existed.

Sri Lanka has opened a page on Chinese social networking site - www.renren.com - to attract more Chinese tourists to the country, an official said Monday.

An exterior view of a Palo Alto house where Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg once lived.

A Dauphin County community is in shock Saturday as they deal with a murder-suicide in their neighborhood and the loss of two people.

For the last few years, as BCLocalNews.comA and our family of websites have garnered more attention, some readers have raised concerns about one issue in particular - the fact we allow visitors to post anonymous comments.

Lisa Gesik hesitates to log into her Facebook account nowadays because of unwanted “friend” requests, not from long-ago classmates but from the ex-husband now in prison for kidnapping her and her daughter.

The first half of the list begins on Page 1C. On the way to visit relatives in Ohio, Michaylah Ryan of Cary, Ill., and her family stopped Wednesday at Science Central.

When you spend more time counting dollars and cents than you do counting who’s naughty and nice, holiday shopping can lose some of its festive feel.

Facedrink is an ‘energy shot’ similar to the tiny, sicky bottles of Red Bull designed to give you an instant energy boost A beverage called ‘Facedrink’ has been launched with the promise to give you a ‘taste of friendship’ and a shot of ’social energy’. The 75ml can appears designed to wind up the social networking website as much as possible and … (more)

First there was Black Friday, then Cyber Monday. On November 27th comes Small Business Saturday , a day to support the local businesses that create jobs, boost the economy and preserve neighborhoods around the country.

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