Facebook on Thursday began testing a way for celebrities, journalists, athletes and others with massive followings to have their identities validated at the globally popular online social network.

"The new process enables people to verify their identities by submitting a government issued ID," Facebook said in an email response to an Agence France Presse inquiry.

Twitter announced it has finished rolling out overhauled pages crafted to boost the appeal of the message-sharing service to users around the world.

"At the very core there are fewer places you have to click and less you have to learn," Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey said as he and other executives unveiled the changes at the startup's San Francisco headquarters in December.

Google and other online advertisers bypassed the privacy settings of an Apple web browser on iPhones and computers in order to survey millions of users, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

The Journal said the companies used a special code that tricks Apple's Safari software into letting them monitor the browsing habits of many users.

Researchers on Wednesday revealed a flaw in the way data is scrambled to protect the privacy of online banking, shopping and other kinds of sensitive exchanges.

A program used to generate random number sequences for encrypting digital information worked properly 99.8 percent of the time, meaning that two out of every thousand "keys" wouldn't thwart crooks or spies, the report warned.

U.S. telecom regulators have pulled the plug on an ambitious plan to build a high-speed wireless broadband network, citing potential interference with GPS navigation devices.

The Federal Communications Commission said late Tuesday that it was revoking permission for LightSquared to build a 4G-LTE network that the company had said would cover more than 90 percent of the United States by 2015.

Apple on Wednesday said application developers will have to get express permission from users before tapping into contact information stored in its popular gadgets, in a move to address privacy concerns.

The maker of iPhones, iPads, and iPods made its position clear after two U.S. lawmakers asked the California-based company whether "apps" running on the company's devices may be accessing private data without asking users.

Google on Wednesday assured users of its smartphone wallets that the mobile-age technology thwarts thieves better than old-school cash or credit cards.

"Mobile payments are going to become more common in the coming years, and we will learn much more as we continue to develop Google Wallet," Google payments vice president Osama Bedier said in a blog post.

Hackers have targeted the public websites of the operators of the Nasdaq and Bats stock exchanges over the past two days with cyber-attacks that disrupted the sites but had no impact on trading.

The Nasdaq.com website was briefly inaccessible at times on Tuesday although it was back online and functioning normally late in the day.

Alibaba's move to buy out Yahoo!'s stake in the Chinese Internet titan has tripped on the California firm's determination to sidestep taxes, a Dow Jones-owned technology news website reported on Tuesday.

AllThingsD.com cited unnamed sources as saying discussions have hit an impasse centered on structuring the deal in a way that would let Yahoo! save more than $4 billion in US taxes on the deal.

A new application was launched on Tuesday which displays the power outage times in Lebanon.

Samer Hamandi, the application’s creator announced the release of a new version of his free android mobile application “Beirut Electricity Cut Off" that now supports all areas in Lebanon.