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Facebook To Build Second European Data Centre In Sweden

The new ‘Rapid Deployment Data Centre’ design will be assembled on-site like Ikea furniture

11 years ago

Privacy Groups Call For Probe Into £11.4bn Facebook WhatsApp Takeover

US regulators face calls from privacy advocates to investigate Facebook's expensive acquisition of WhatsApp

11 years ago

Facebook Cracks Down On Gun Toters

Facebook to warn any gun dealers using illicit sales tactics

11 years ago

Facebook Looks To Drone Technology To Connect The World To The Web

Potential purchase of drone specialists Titan Aerospace will allow Facebook to further expand its Internet.org connectivity project

11 years ago

Flood Apps Won’t Save The World

The government backed Tech City's bid to make helpful flood apps. Peter Judge wants to know - where's the long-term…

11 years ago

MWC 2014: Ericsson, GSMA, Join Facebook’s World Connection Crusade

Zuckerberg's MWC keynote features Facebook's Internet.org project, which now has Ericsson on board with a network lab, and the GSMA…

11 years ago

WhatsApp Rebuffed Google Advances In Favour Of Facebook Deal – Report

WhatApp founders reportedly turned down a Google takoever offer in favour of Facebook, despite being offered more money

11 years ago

Social Media Reputation Repair Can Be Costly, Microsoft Warns

The financial cost of embarrassing or malicious Facebook posts can be very significant, a new study revels

11 years ago

Why WhatsApp Is Worth £11.4bn To Facebook

Facebook's purchase of WhatsApp protects its mobile business and allows it to expand to new markets, says Steve McCaskill

11 years ago

Facebook Agrees To Buy WhatsApp For £11.4bn

Facebook will take over the popular mobile instant messaging app

11 years ago

Vodafone Rejects Requests For Free Access To Facebook

Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao says Facebook asked him to carry its data for free on the Vodafone network in developing…

11 years ago

Vidyo Lets Google+ Hangouts Connect To Enterprise Video Conferencing

VidyoH2O allows Google+ Hangouts video tools to communicate with the H.323 protocol used by products from Cisco, Polycom, LifeSize and…

11 years ago

Twitter Earnings Show Revenue Increase, Slower User Growth

In its first earnings report since going public, Twitter showed improved revenues but a user base that is growing more…

11 years ago

Facebook Open Sources ‘Efficient’ Encryption Tool For Android Devs

Conceal APIs seek to make encryption done by Android apps efficient and simple

11 years ago

Microsoft Invests $15m In Foursquare, Licenses Data

Microsoft is to license Foursquare's location-based data for integration into search and mobile services

11 years ago

Facebook Marks 10th Anniversary With Mobile News App

The social network, which launched 10 years ago on 4 February, has introduced a second-generation news aggregator for smartphones

11 years ago

Facebook: The Mixed Legacy Of Its First Ten Years

Facebook turns ten as observers debate its social legacy and its future

11 years ago

Twitter Makes Peace With IBM In Patent Deal

Twitter will buy 900 patents and sign a cross-licensing agreement with IBM following settlement of dispute

11 years ago

Facebook Beats Expectations With Record Earnings

Facebook has beaten analyst expectations after it revealed its best-ever quarterly results

11 years ago

Microsoft Reveals Data Centre Secrets And Joins Open Compute Project

Facebook's Open Compute Project can share Azure, Bing and Office365 data centre designs now Microsoft has signed up

11 years ago

US Companies Allowed To Publish NSA Data Request Numbers

Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo and LinkedIn win a battle against the NSA, but the war is far from over

11 years ago

3 Things CIOs Can Learn From Snapchat

If you want your corporate apps to be used, get mobile and reduce friction, says Rob Sobers

11 years ago

Facebook “To Lose 80 Percent of Users By 2017”

Research from Princeton University compares Facebook to an ‘infectious disease” and predicts we will all recover

11 years ago

Facebook Preparing To Launch ‘Paper’ Reader App

The big idea? To take on news services such as Flipboard

11 years ago

Pinterest Buys Image Recognition Firm VisualGraph

Acquisition looks to boost the image recognition capabilities of Pinterest's search facilities

11 years ago

Facebook Snaps Up App Optimisation Developer Little Eye Labs

Rumoured $15 million acquisition should help Facebook improve and expand its mobile offerings

11 years ago

CES 2014: Yahoo Looks To British Innovation To Simplify Your Life

Yahoo reveals new offerings to compete with the likes of Google and Microsoft

11 years ago

Inside The World’s Most Interesting Data Centres

Data centres have to be efficient. That doesn't stop them being beautiful

11 years ago