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ProPublica, in an historic first for online journalism, won a coveted Pulitzer Prize on Monday for investigative reporting about controversial deaths at a New Orleans medical center following Hurricane Katrina.

Sensitivity around a Google code bug highlights the geopolitical tension around the search company's ...

House thieves have been given a leg-up by a new Web site that allows people to see whether or not you are at home -- thanks to information you're probably already posting online.

A hacker broke into 49 House websites of both political parties overnight to post a crude attack on President Obama.

For Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, it was a global virtual black eye.

One of the creators of a technology that underpins millions of websites is asking people to protest against Oracle's attempted takeover Silicon Valley rival Sun Microsystems.

Finnish entrepreneur Michael Widenius - known as Monty - says that the European Commission must block the $7bn deal as a way to protect the future of MySQL, the database company he helped found in 1995.

In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we analyze a list of the most influential websites in the world, look back on the past decade of e-commerce, suggest a list of products that Twitter might like to acquire, review a collection of Thanksgiving web apps, and more.

Google Sites, a service that lets you create and collaborate on a simple webpage, as well as embed documents, photos, videos into it, was visually a bland affair…until now.

Take a look at the latest viral marketing from James Cameron's film.

Republicans charge that the administration's 'Reality Check' is part of an online enemies list, but Obama officials say the website is very popular. The White House is blaming "political groups" for distributing its e-mails about healthcare to people who complained that they never asked for any White House e-mail, while suggesting that its online healthcare "Reality Check" site has become quite popular.