3 arrested for running online prostitution ring

The National Bureau of Investigation recently arrested three people who allegedly were involved in an on-line prostitution and human trafficking activities, the agency’s top official said.

The National Bureau of Investigation recently arrested three people who allegedly were involved in an on-line prostitution and human trafficking activities, the agency’s top official said.

Yengo, an international online-service for traffic generation and business promotion, is set to expand to Vietnam, Indonesia, Korea, Singapore and China, according to its emailed statement.

Yahoo! confirmed Tuesday that it bought Snip.it, a young San Francisco startup that lets people create scrapbooks with pictures, articles, videos and other content found online.

It looks like a tough sell for the online daily deals sector.

Just in time for the holidays, Microsoft and Google have become embroiled in a bitter dispute over who is the fairest of them all for online shopping, stepping up the battle between the tech giants.

Newsweek’s decision to stop publishing a print edition after 80 years and bet its life entirely on a digital future may be more a commentary on its own problems than a definitive statement on the health of the US magazine industry.

As investors agonize over Facebook’s future, the online social network used by a seventh of the world’s population isn’t forgetting the importance of play.

Myspace on Monday provided a glimpse at a major overhaul of the music-centric online community striving to reclaim lost glory.

Director David O. Russell said Sunday he used Skype for the first time to audition actors for his latest film “Silver Linings Playbook” and introduced the online video chat service to a village in India.

Thousands of kilometers from Kuala Lumpur in Cameroon, doctoral student Michael Nkwenti Ndongfack attends his Open University Malaysia classes online and hopes to defend his final thesis by Skype.

Google on Monday announced that it will let users of its online social network have verified accounts with names or brands in a manner similar to that offered at Facebook and Twitter.

Faded social news star Digg announced Thursday that it has been bought by online media company Betaworks in a move aimed at reviving the firm’s cache.

A top US regulator urged Congress Wednesday to enact an online privacy law that includes “do not track” mechanisms for consumers on the Internet, amid indications of a split among lawmakers.