By Peter Berton CYBERSPACE – According to anti-virus firm Kaspersky Lab, children are more likely to encounter potential threats on social media websites than they are to seek out porn online.

CHICAGO – MyPornProfile, one of a burgeoning crop of adult social networks, has launched a new program that offers to pay members as much as $8 per image for tweeting up to 10 images daily. The images must be exclusive to MPP and depict the member nude or covered in nothing more...

SAN DIEGO – Hosting solutions provider Red Apple Media has secured three additional state-of-the-art data centers for its network. The new centers, located in Arizona, Virginia and the Netherlands, combined with the company’s original data center in Southern California, bring to...

LOS ANGELES – By employing a state-of-the-art API and in-house developers, payment processor CommerceGate now is able to integrate virtually every major shopping cart platform in U.S. and international markets, the company announced Thursday. Clients make the choice, and...

By Stewart Tongue CYBERSPACE – A new scientific research report published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows nearly 35 percent of couples married between 2005 and 2012 met each other online. Of those relationships, nearly half met on dating...

By Stewart Tongue CHICAGO – Anti-piracy firm Prenda Law seeded online peer-to-peer networks with the copyrighted material it later sued end-users for stealing, according to new allegations in a continuing court battle involving the firm.

LOS ANGELES – Erotic photographer Holly Randall officially re-launched her eponymous website Monday after a five-month re-design effort. The site, HollyRandall.com, was acquired by MetArt Network in January. Although a snag developed in handing off the associated affiliate...

MONTREAL – About 18 months after it hit the web, multilingual website review destination MrPorn.com has launched an affiliate program. Much like the site itself, the program falls outside the norm. “Mr Porn’s affiliate program offers revshare payouts through external...

LAS VEGAS – Performer Leia Down, who describes herself as a “super villain,” emerged from her lair this week to launch a new website. Why a super villainess would want to make it easier for the forces of good to find her is anyone’s guess, but Down said increasing her visibility...

LAS VEGAS – The flagship portal for affiliate program OCCash undergone a complete makeover with the goal of improving end-user experience. FilthFreaks.com, which serves as a gateway to content from about 50 websites offering ethnic and interracial adult content, now displays a...