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US President Barack Obama is seen on the YouTube website, on a computer screen, in Chicago 2008. Obama will answer questions from YouTube users in a live event on the video-sharing site next week, the White House said. US President Barack Obama will answer questions from YouTube users in a live event on the video-sharing [...]

This image obtained from MySpace.com shows the White House page on MySpace. Since Barack Obama rode the Web to the White House two years ago, a digital toolkit has become an essential item in the campaign arsenal of nearly every US office-seeker. Facebook page? Check. Twitter feed? Check. YouTube channel? Check. (c) 2010 AFP

WASHINGTON — Among the proposals President Barack Obama made this week to boost the U.S. economy is one that will allow businesses to write off all of the investment they do in 2011. But there’s a lot of uncertainty ahead for IT managers interested in this tax break. In a speech Wednesday, Obama was specific [...]

Cameron Diaz fans, look out. The actress has made McAfee’s list as the most dangerous celebrity to search for in cyberspace. Released Thursday, McAfee’s fourth annual Most Dangerous Celebrities report tracked the top performers, models, and other celebrities that cybercriminals use to trick people into hitting malicious Web sites. Search for a hot photo or [...]

Google on Friday said it acquired Metaweb, a company that maintains a database of information that it offers to website operators wishing to aggregate content about specific topics on their sites. The companies did not reveal the purchase price. [ Stay ahead of the key tech business news with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: First Look newsletter. [...]

(AP) — A court in central France has convicted a young Frenchman accused of infiltrating Twitter and peeping at the account of President Barack Obama, and given him a five-month suspended prison sentence. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Frenchman Francois Cousteix, 23, leaves the court after attending his trial in Clermont-Ferrand, central France. The young Frenchman accused of hacking into US President Barack Obama’s Twitter account insisted at his trial on Thursday that he had done so for the common good. A young Frenchman accused of hacking into US President Barack Obama’s Twitter [...]

Jumo.com logo. Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, who left the booming social network to work on the online arm of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, announced the launch of the non-profit new venture, called “Jumo,” on his personal blog at chrishughes.tumblr.com on Thursday. Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, who left the booming social network to work on the [...]

In this July 7, 2008, file photo then-Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., checks his BlackBerry in St. Louis, Mo. Blending behind-the-scenes nuggets with a defense of Obama’s record, White House and administration officials are increasingly communicating through Twitter, the popular social network that operates as a Web-based clearing house for public statements on [...]

(AP) — A hacker broke into 49 House Web sites of both political parties to post a crude attack on President Barack Obama after his State of the Union address. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.