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In the six months ending August 10, Android phones accounted for 32 percent of the smartphones sold, Nielsen said. By comparison, iPhones accounted for 25 percent of devices sold and BlackBerry handsets for 26 percent. A month earlier, the three types of devices were in a virtual dead heat.

"Changing pictures on Facebook to include product placement will create false memories," Raskin warned at the conclusion of a 45 minute presentation about the plasticity of human memory.

Facebook is inviting the press to a special event Monday, leading some to speculate that the company is set to overhaul its Messages product.The basis for the speculation? The invite prominently displays Facebook’s () inbox logo. With some additional features, Facebook may even compete with your current e-mail provider, the theory goes.

What if say, Google, in their attempt to finally create a cohesive social experience, decided to forgo building yet another service and instead went for the ultimate layer: the browser?

Their simple iPhone photo shooting-and-sharing app is growing about as fast as we've seen anything grow: Less than a month after launching, it's already approaching 500,000 users, and could reach the milestone within a week.

people spend more time on closed social networks like Facebook, where much of the data they share is off limits to search engines, Google risks losing the competition for Web users’ time, details of their lives and, ultimately, advertising.

Google has bought Groupon for $2.5 billion, Vatornews reports citing a “reliable source” familiar with the situation.The acquisition – which is unconfirmed at this point – follows the rumors about Google being in talks to buy the popular local deals site, after Yahoo had failed to negotiate an acquisition for a $2 billion to $3 billion earlier this year.

Now it's the socialite network -- the Queen has joined Facebook, launching a series of official pages offering the website's 500 million users daily updates on her engagements, the royal household said Sunday.

(CNN) -- An act of civil disobedience 55 years ago -- Rosa Parks' refusal to move to the back of a city bus -- made the seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, a pivotal symbol in America's civil rights movement. Wednesday marks the 55th anniversary of the civil disobedience on December 1, 1955. Parks did not intend to get arrested as she made her way home from work that day. Little did the 42-year-old seamstress know that her acts would help end segregation laws in the South.

New data from comScore suggests that Cyber Monday may have been the heaviest online spending day in history with a record-breaking $1.028 billion in online spending — a 16% jump in spending when compared against the same day last year.