BOSTON, Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Boston-area author Ben Mezrich has denied claims he plagiarized biographical material for a minor character in his book, "The Accidental Billionaires."

PALO ALTO, Calif., May 26 (UPI) -- U.S. Internet giant Facebook said a Russian firm, Digital Sky Technologies, has purchased 1.96 percent of the company for $200 million.

PALO ALTO, Calif., March 5 (UPI) -- Fast-growing social-networking site Facebook Inc. unveiled a redesign while struggling News Corp. rival MySpace lost three executives, the U.S. companies said.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- The European Parliament's Socialist deputies say the administrators of Facebook should remove anti-Gypsy hate groups from its social networking Web site.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- There is a possibility the social networking Web site MySpace may one day have its own MP3 player, a top executive with the company said in San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. social networking site Facebook is in the process of switching its millions of users to a new design, a move that doesn't make everyone happy.

NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (UPI) -- Microsoft founder Bill Gates once again sits atop The Forbes 400 list of the richest people in the United States, the magazine says.

NEW YORK, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- Facebook, the popular U.S. social networking Web site, said it was making a major change in its controversial new tracking program.

BOSTON, July 26 (UPI) -- A federal judge says the founders of ConnectU.com have just two weeks to persuade him not to throw out their case against rival Facebook.com.