Culture Popular blogger ignites uproar over Twitter harassment Ariel Waldman, a blogger and Pownce employee, claims that microbloggng service refused to take real action after she complained. Abuse to become much bigger issue as Twitter grows. This post was updated at 10:49 AM with comment from Ariel Waldman. Some Web enthusiasts find microblogging service Twitter to be addictive because you can s

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Will it, won’t it? If so, when? If not, why not? An entire cottage industry of speculation has built up around the public debut of Facebook, arguably Silicon Valley’s hottest Internet company. A photograph of Stephanie Endicott and Marcus Smallegan, first-year students at George Washington University, is seen on their Facebook website page in Washington November 25, 2007. REUT

Martin Varsavsky, in his Madrid home, started FON to let members piggyback on the wireless access of other members worldwide. But his big idea is encountering some obstacles.Credit...Matias Costa for The New York Times Menorca, Spain SITTING on the porch at Finca Torrenova, his 800-acre retreat on this Mediterranean island, Martin Varsavsky ticks off the credentials of the group of Internet entrep

With its massive, multi-billion dollar loan portfolio, muddled objectives and failure to contain corruption, a decade of reform efforts have done little to fix the World Bank. Continue »