Beirut remains the media and technology incubator in the region. As an assertion of the capital’s role, the organizers of the corporate digital marketing conference DGTL#U have chosen Beirut to be the first stop in the road show around Arab cities including Kuwait, Jeddah, Muscat, Riyadh, amongst other countries, a press release said Wednesday.

Top international digital experts are meeting in Beirut to share significant case studies and success stories with marketing professionals from Lebanon: Phil Erhart from Apple, Ramzi Raad from TBWA\RAAD, Mike Al-Mefleh from RIM, William Kanaan from Google, Dani Risha from Impact BBDO, Jiri Voves from SocialBakers, Hassan Mikail from Aramex, Tarek Atrissi from Atrissi Design...

The New York Times Co. has agreed to sell its information website About.com for $300 million to IAC, a conglomerate headed by mogul Barry Diller.

The two firms announced the cash deal late Sunday, concluding the effort by The Times to sell off non-core assets.

South Korea's Samsung Electronics vowed on Tuesday to take "all necessary measures" to keep its products on U.S. store shelves, in response to Apple's request for a ban on sales of some smartphones.

After winning a $1.05 billion U.S. court judgment in a patent suit last week, Apple on Monday filed a court request to ban eight Samsung mobile devices including versions of its Galaxy and Droid smartphones.

Swedish social media entrepreneur Erik Wachtmeister on Monday announced the launch of a new social networking site targeting the "top one percent" of Internet users, called Best of All Worlds.

The site, which helps users find events and contacts, counted 20,000 members even before its launch.

Will tweets make the difference in the 2012 U.S. presidential election?

Twitter and other social media are being used by candidates to energize supporters, raise funds and shift the focus of the public debate for what some call the nation's first "social election" in November.

Apple will unveil a new, smaller version of its wildly popular iPad in October after the release of the latest version of its iPhone next month, the All Things Digital website reported Sunday.

"First comes the latest iteration of the tech giant's hugely popular smartphone, which will be unveiled at an as yet unannounced event on September 12," the website said.

The Twitter age is killing in-depth journalism, while local newspapers are becoming extinct -- right?

Then what is a talented young New York Times reporter doing founding a website devoted to in-depth local reporting?

Facebook said Friday it had hired renowned architect Frank Gehry to design the company's campus expansion, which includes a new building with a rooftop garden.

"When it's completed, we hope it will provide a paradise workspace for the 3,400 engineers who will one day fill it," a company statement said.

An Estonian graphic designer has taken to cyberspace to protest Russia's jailing of feminist-punk activists Pussy Riot, launching an anti-Kremlin version of hit video game "Angry Birds".

Magnus Vulp said on Friday that the goal of his "Angry Kremlins" was to draw attention to the fate of the three Russian women, who were sentenced to two years in a corrective labor facility by a Moscow court.

Apple won more than $1 billion in a massive U.S. court victory over Samsung on Friday, in one of the biggest patent cases in decades -- a verdict that could have huge market repercussions.

A jury in San Jose, California awarded $1.049 billion to the U.S. tech giant, according to court documents. But analysts said the damages could be tripled because jurors found Samsung "willfully" infringed on patents.