American Express is using the micro-blogging giant Twitter to give its U.S. card members a new social media twist on merchant discounts. Card members can sync their eligible AmEx card with Twitter at sync.americanexpress.com/twitter. When ...

Gamestop, Gap, J.C. Penney and Nordstrom are some of the big-name retailers who have opened and shut storefronts on Facebook in the past year, part of a strategy highly-touted initially as a promising new outlet ...

Twitter is offering ad purchases to credit card holders and providing a self-serve ad system to American Express small businesses first – before offering a broader service. Starting in late March, the first 10,000 ...

Free of government intervention, consumers read the news, listen to music, make purchases, view movies and do their finances on the Internet. But anti-piracy bills making their way through Congress would threaten ...

Micro-blogging giant Twitter has agreed to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission that it failed to safeguard the personal information of its users. It is the first case the FTC has brought against a social ...

The torrent of opposition from users, privacy advocates and even U.S. lawmakers has prompted the founder and chief executive officer of Facebook to change course and, once again, overhaul privacy controls, particularly ...

The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s consumer protection agency, is already looking into privacy controls on Facebook, the top social network with more than 400 million users – more than a quarter of them ...

The “rapid-fire” pace of mobile technology and the “explosion” in social media has warranted a review of an existing federal rule protecting children’s online privacy to make sure it is adequate, the Federal ...

Even before a group of U.S. senators asked the Federal Trade Commission to look into Facebook’s new sharing platform with third-party sites, the agency had declared that data security and privacy have become a ...

When Facebook first revealed it would share personal profile information with third-party partner sites, users and privacy advocates voiced concerns and anger. Now a U.S. Senator wants the Federal Trade Commission, ...