Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Whether it's fomenting revolution or telling people what you had for breakfast microblogging service Twitter seems to have it all.

AFP - NEW YORK (AFP) - Traditional black and white is sharing the spotlight with color and new digital formats at a major international photography show that runs through Sunday in New York.

Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Smartphones may be one of the hottest areas in technology with big names like Apple and Google tussling for share, but investors are questioning the growth prospects for mobile carriers as subscriber gains slow.

AFP - SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - A teenager that checked into his MySpace account after breaking into a furniture store was arrested by police that tracked him down through clues left on the shop's computer.

AFP - WASHINGTON (AFP) - Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, who left the booming social network to work on the online arm of Barack Obama's presidential campaign, is launching a startup to promote charitable efforts.

AFP - NEW YORK (AFP) - Palm shares plunged Friday after the struggling US mobile device maker posted more disappointing results and speculation mounted that it could be an acquisition target.

AFP - WASHINGTON (AFP) - The US military in 2008 shut down a website set up by the CIA and Saudi Arabia to expose terror plots, angering both parties, who saw the site as a vital intelligence tool, the Washington Post reported Friday.

AFP - MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Internet giant Google is adding two native Central American languages -- Maya and Nahuatl -- to its universal search service, a company official said Thursday.

AFP - NEW DELHI (AFP) - India's top mobile phone company said on Friday it has reached a deal with Apple Inc. to sell the iPhone 3GS in India.

AFP - SHANGHAI (AFP) - US Internet giant Google will close its business in China next month and may announce its plans in the coming days, Chinese media reported on Friday, after rows over censorship and hacking.

Reuters - NAIROBI (Reuters) - Armed rebel groups in Somalia are using the Internet for fundraising and recruitment, and they achieve better results through the Web than they do on the ground, a United Nations report said.

Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of mobile phone maker Palm tumbled on Friday on questions over its ability to survive in a tough market dominated by Apple, Google and Research in Motion.

Reuters - SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Google Inc may make an announcement next Monday about whether it will pull out from China, the China Business News reported on Friday, quoting an unnamed Google employee.

AFP - SHANGHAI (AFP) - China's product-quality watchdog said US computer maker Hewlett-Packard violated Chinese consumer rights rules, after an investigation into complaints about faulty laptops from dozens of customers.

Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - China's quality control watchdog said an investigation into Hewlett-Packard Co showed the company had sold some faulty laptop computers, and ignored consumer protection regulations.

AFP - NEW YORK (AFP) - Court documents made public Thursday in a billion-dollar court battle between Viacom and Google accuse YouTube executives of posting stolen videos to rocket the startup to stardom.

AFP - NEW YORK (AFP) - An auction in New York of the hotly desired Sex.com Internet domain name scheduled for Thursday was halted at the last hour when creditors forced the previous owner into bankruptcy.

Reuters - DETROIT (Reuters) - Jerry York, a long-time adviser to billionaire investor Kirk Kerkorian and executive whose career spanned the auto and technology industries, has died, Apple Inc said on Thursday.

The Canadian Press - MONTREAL - New wireless player Public Mobile is looking to win customers who don't already have cellphones with a no-contract, no-frills service that lets it avoid competing directly with established carriers.

AFP - SAO PAULO (AFP) - Alibaba.com, China's biggest business-to-business web group, on Thursday officially started operations in Brazil, which it said showed huge potential for growth.

AFP - WASHINGTON (AFP) - European researchers have taken the world a step closer to fictional wizard Harry Potter's invisibility cape after they made an object disappear using a three-dimensional "cloak," a study published Thursday in the US-based journal Science showed.

Reuters - NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc accused Viacom Inc of secretly uploading its videos to YouTube even as the media conglomerate publicly denounced the online video site for copyright infringement, according to court documents made public on Thursday.

Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc promoted the executive who spearheaded the development and launch of its Nook electronic reader to be its new chief executive, as the largest specialty U.S. bookseller accelerates its push into digital books.

AFP - SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Sales of desktop computers soared 30 percent in February defying talk that such machines are being made obsolete by laptops, smartphones and other mobile devices.

Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Communications Commission plans to announce in coming weeks an agenda of proceedings stemming from the recommendations in the national broadband plan, an agency official said.

AFP - WASHINGTON (AFP) - Amazon released a free program on Thursday that allows Kindle electronic books to be read on Apple's Mac computers and said they will also be available on the upcoming iPad.

Reuters - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it released an application to allow its Kindle e-books to be read on Apple Inc Mac computers.

AFP - WASHINGTON (AFP) - Criminals beware! US law enforcement authorities may be stalking you on Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn or Twitter.

Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday announced that Russia would build a high-tech hub near Moscow to spur modernization of the economy and reduce its dependence on oil and gas.

Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Young people in Britain turn to the internet to look for help with personal problems rather than seek advice from their parents or friends, according to a survey released on Thursday.

Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - Europe's online security would best be served by developing global cyber regulation, ending current "ad hoc" international efforts, British lawmakers said on Wednesday, echoing industry calls for worldwide rules.

AFP - HONG KONG (AFP) - China Mobile said on Thursday it hopes to soon reach a deal with Apple to sell the iPhone, several months after rival China Unicom launched the iconic smartphone in the country.

AFP - WASHINGTON (AFP) - Google has been denied a trademark application for its Nexus One smartphone after the US Patent and Trademark Office said the name had been taken by a related product, a report said.

AFP - BEIJING (AFP) - China's top provider of electronic payment services will tie up with online payment platform PayPal, the two companies said, in a move that will let Chinese customers buy from overseas merchants.