Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s No. 2 executive, considers herself a role model for women. But her call isn’t simply about mentoring and empowering; it’s also a business strategy.

Today’s Internet is a place for getting things done, pushing aside the cyberflâneur — the heir to the flâneur culture of 19th-century France.

In Silicon Valley, wearing flashy socks is more than an expression of your personality. It signals that you are part of the in crowd.

Relying on GPS devices can erode our ability to develop mental maps.

More companies are turning to gamification — offering games that let their customers win points for certain activities — as a way to build both loyalty and a trove of data.

On HealthTap, an interactive Web site, users can ask for medical advice, and doctors can gain whimsical “awards” for their answers.

Viviane Reding, the European Union justice commissioner, is pressing Google to halt changes to its privacy policies while the implications for personal data protection are being explored.

The group known as Anonymous listened in on a call between the bureau, Scotland Yard and other foreign police agencies about their joint investigation of the group and its allies.

Steve Appleton, whose death was considered a major loss for the struggling company, was piloting the small craft in Boise, Idaho.

Mark Zuckerberg plans to exercise stock options with an estimated value of $5 billion ahead of Facebook’s initial public offering, which will translate into a big tax benefit for the company.

Most football fans will be forced to spend at least part of the weekend away from televised Super Bowl coverage. For those not willing to endure that sort of pain, the N.F.L. this week released three apps to help.

South Korean prosecutors indicted Park Jung-geun, a social media and freedom of speech activist this week for reposting messages from the North Korean government’s Twitter account.

Mark Zuckerberg’s success is a lesson in what works in Silicon Valley: Stay in charge, stave off potential predators and expand the company so quickly that no one can challenge the boss.

The company warned it expected to post a fourth consecutive annual loss, of $2.9 billion, as sluggish sales and natural disasters weighed on its bottom line.

Curt Schilling, the former Boston Red Sox pitcher, left baseball to start 38 Studios, a video game company, maker of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.

The ruling by the Supreme Court was a rebuke to the government and came after years of litigation over a scandal involving telecommunications licenses sold at below-market prices.

The social network’s stock offering, expected to value the company at $75 billion to $100 billion, is bound to raise even more concerns about privacy and other issues.

If you use Safari, working within the browser's bookmark manager is usually the easiest way to organize, rearrange and delete bookmarks from folders in the Bookmarks Bar or from the Bookmarks menu itself.

GitHire, a new source for technology-industry hiring in the Bay Area, promises the names of five great programmers for $1,000, but there are only so many people in this field around.

Photo software makers are releasing simple but powerful desktop versions of phone and tablet photo apps.