If you pay attention, Mark Zuckerberg is remarkably consistent. For the past several years, one of the highest-profile projects he’s been focused on has been expanding Internet access around the globe. The Facebook CEO and co-founder is doing this by offering free cellular service through an initiative he started called Internet.org, and via drones that …

With a cute photo of his newborn daughter, and five accompanying words, Mark Zuckerberg waded into deeply divisive politics — again. Facebook’s co-founder and CEO posted a photo to the social network on Friday, showing his newborn, Maxima, perched on his lap in a doctor’s office. Little did she know that, sitting there in a multicolored bunting suit, she’d become …

What’s in a screen? For Apple, it may be the key to the next iPhone. Rumors are circulating that Apple, the Cupertino, California-based tech behemoth, is working out deals with LG and Samsung to use a different type of screen technology in the iPhone. The screens would change to organic light-emitting diode, or OLED, which promises better-quality images when compared …

Over. Finito. Terminado. However you say it, AT&T’s two-year plan will be gone next year. Starting January 8, the nation’s second-largest wireless carrier is calling it quits on the standard contract plan, which charged customers a set price for the cost of a phone and two years of wireless service. In its place will be Next, a program that requires …

Facebook has more in common with McDonald’s than you might think. Both are at the top of their respective fields, so widely used and recognized that they’re the icons of the industries they dominate. It took the fast-food chain eight years to serve up a billion burgers; it took the social network eight years to sign up a billion people. …

You can’t order a pizza from Facebook yet, but you can get a ride through it. The social-networking giant said Wednesday it partnered with Uber to build ride-hailing into its Messenger app. Just send a friend an address in Messenger, and he or she can tap on it to call up a box that says “Request a Ride.” Users can …

It’s said there’s always someone doing something bad on the Internet. Now, Germany is doing something about it. The European nation reached an agreement with Facebook, Twitter and Google to remove hate speech from the Internet within 24 hours of it being reported, according to reports from the Associated Press and AFP. Under the agreement, it will be easier for …

Until now, you had to use your “authentic” name on Facebook. That’s no longer the case. The world’s largest social network said it is relaxing its rules for how people identify themselves, allowing them to more easily use the name “people know them by.” In addition, the service said it would make it harder for harassers to ask Facebook to …

It’s never been a better time to be a computer coder. But talk to hiring managers and you hear a different story. First the good news: A record 78 percent of hiring managers throughout the tech industry say they plan on hiring more people in the first half of 2016 than they did in the second half of this year, …

Facebook’s Slingshot app missed its mark. So did Riff and Rooms. The social-networking giant has quietly curtailed its Creative Labs, the startup-like initiative that encouraged its employees to design innovative and unusual mobile software. Among the first casualties: Slingshot, an ephemeral messaging service that competed with Snapchat, and Rooms, a group messaging service. As of Monday, Slingshot, Rooms and Riff, …