Firings were rare and usually involved theft or some other terrible offense.People hardly ever left, and while some years ...

Facebook and Google are joining forces after 10 states filed a lawsuit alleging the companies work together in online advertising.

The rivalry between tech titans Facebook and Google is heating up. At stake? Hundreds of billions of dollars -- and the chance to rule the online world.

The file was left entirely unprotected - no encryption, no password, no safeguards - just a plain text document holding ...

Monkey Cage Conservatives say Google and Facebook are censoring them. Here’s the real background. The social media giants say they don’t want to regulate political speech. But they already are.

Google's trying to hit Facebook where it hurts, and Facebook is snapping up patents that may make Google's social-media aims harder to achieve.

Google desperately wanted to copy Facebook’s success on social media. Instead it may be left with a version of one of Facebook’s biggest failures.

Even if every single Facebook user performs just as many searches with Google as ever—including Google Instant, mobile search, and YouTube—Facebook will inexorably grow as big as Google is ...

Google’s lead is narrower in the U.S., where it had 155 million unique visitors from desktop and laptop computers in May compared with Facebook’s 140 million, the Nielsen Company reported.

NEW YORK - The intense rivalry between Facebook and Google just got juicier. In a twist seemingly out of a Hollywood thriller, Facebook hired a prominent public relations firm to try to plant ...

Google's long expected second shot at taking on Facebook in the social networking space has arrived in the form of the Google+ Project. It has some ...