Cynthia De Acha didn't know that she could buy fresh New England lobsters in Silicon Valley, but thanks to a recent delivery to a Google executive, she's becoming aware of all kinds of previously hidden corners of the San Francisco Bay Area.

The U.S. government has sided with monopoly rather than competition in bringing a case of e-book price-fixing against Apple, the company said in a filing on Tuesday before a federal court.

The mobile gift-giving app Karma has announced it has been acquired by Facebook. The announcement came shortly after the markets closed on Facebook's first day as a publicly traded company.

After all the buildup, Facebook's long-anticipated initial public offering is finally here.

With Facebook's initial public offering creating such a frenzy of interest, there's an important question to be considered: What happens if tomorrow or next week or five months from now, this investment goes south?

Facebook's initial public offering may be getting even bigger.

A U.S. court has shut down the operations of a company that allegedly promised it would build its customers websites that would generate income of up to US$20,000 per month, after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint about its business practices.

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