The foundering Web pioneer reportedly wants the social-networking giant to license 10 to 20 patents related to advertising and Web page personalization.

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The site claims to track 1,200 years of genealogical information about the island’s inhabitants. Anyone with an Icelandic ID number — that is, citizens and legal residents — is accounted for.

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Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the 200th birthday of writer Charles Dickens.

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Twitter records continue to fall left and right as more and more people — 100 million active users at last count — continue to flock onto the microblogging service every month.

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With social network giant Facebook officially gearing up for its initial public offering, the company’s top executives and largest investors are poised for a historic windfall.

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The social-gaming company’s stock has risen by more than 14 percent at times, as investors responded positively to the company’s strong ties with Facebook.

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Facebook has defined the social era of computing–and the companies that defined the previous eras of computing each command market values of $200 billion or more. Facebook should get there, too.

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Sparkology was started to help the smart, reserved, hopeless romantic guy win. This new invite-only online dating site allows only college graduates to join and the men are held to an even higher standard — all must be verified graduates of U.S. News & World Report’s top 50 universities.

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Planned changes to Google Inc’s privacy policies that have caught the attention of U.S. lawmakers would not take away the control its customers have over how data is collected and used, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday.

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Facebook is expected to submit paperwork to regulators on Wednesday morning for a $5 billion initial public offering and has selected Morgan Stanley and four other bookrunners to handle the mega-IPO.

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