SocialMedia

Facebook To Use Chilly Arctic Air For New Data Centre

Facebook has opened its first data centre outside the United States with a green facility in Sweden

12 years ago

Facebook Brings Hashtags To Platform

Facebook set to look a little more like Twitter - covered in hashtags

12 years ago

Tech Giants Ask US Government For More Post-PRISM Transparency

Facebook, Google and others urge the US government to be more transparent on what data it asks for

12 years ago

Google Confirms £831m Waze Navigation Purchase

Google has flexed its financial muscle and snapped up Waze, which had also been courted by Apple and Facebook

12 years ago

LeWeb 2013: EasyBring – Crowdsourcing Mail

Would you trust a crowdsourced courier service? EasyBring's Erland Bakke explains why your stuff won't get lost - and you…

12 years ago

Government Pressures Tech Firms To Censor More ‘Harmful’ Sites

Maria Miller asks Google, Facebook and BT to meet on blocking illegal content... something they already do

12 years ago

Tech Titans Warn Government On Snooper’s Charter Pitfalls

Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Yahoo all complain about threats posed by the Communications Data Bill

12 years ago

Nasdaq Charged $10m Over Facebook IPO Failures

Nasdaq slapped with SEC charge twice what was expected a matter of months ago

12 years ago

Facebook Pledges Action After Sexism Campaign

Facebook has vowed to clamp down on postings and pages that promote violence and sexism against women

12 years ago

UK Users Quit Facebook Due To Advert Fatigue

Facebook usage has declined in the UK over the past year, with departing users saying they are fed up with…

12 years ago

Eminem Suing Facebook For Copyright Infringement

Facebook’s latest advert features music that sounds suspiciously similar to Eminem’s ‘Under the Influence’

12 years ago

Google Said To Consider Waze Acquisition

First it was Apple, then Facebook, and now Google is reportedly interested in the Israeli start-up

12 years ago

Facebook Cancels HTC First Phone In Europe

HTC First, the Facebook Home flagship, seems to have sunk

12 years ago

Tumblr Confirms Yahoo Deal – As Blogs Migrate To WordPress

Several thousand Tumblr blogs have jumped ship but that's a small fraction of its 100 million users

12 years ago

Yahoo Agrees $1.1bn For Tumblr – Reports

Tumblr's 100 million users could be just what Yahoo needs to look young and fresh

12 years ago

Google I/O: Google Glass Gets New Apps Including Facebook, Twitter

The innovative headset from Google was largely ignored at its annual conference

12 years ago

Facebook To Buy Mapping Firm Waze For $1 Billion – Reports

Facebook is said to be buying navigation start-up Waze, previously courted by Apple

12 years ago

Windows Phone Gets Native YouTube App Despite Microsoft’s Google Complaints

Microsoft puts YouTube on Windows Phone despite claiming Google blocked it

12 years ago

Twitter Leaves TweetDeck To Die

Tweetdeck client continues under tighter Twitter control

12 years ago

Instagram Adds Photo-Tagging Feature

Instagram users can now tag people in photos, a feature inspired by parent company Facebook

12 years ago

Facebook Sees Strong Quarter Fuelled By Mobile Ads

Strong growth in mobile advertising revenues has helped Facebook record positive financial results

12 years ago

EFF Criticises Apple, Amazon And Yahoo For Data Privacy Records

Whilst Twitter is commended for its efforts to keep government hands away from user data, others don't come out looking…

12 years ago

Privacy Activists Doorstep Facebook Over EU Lobbying

Facebook gets a visit from activists who say it has helped cripple proposed EU privacy rules

12 years ago

Facebook To Open $300m Iowa Data Centre

Iowa has wind energy, but Greenpeace wants Facebook to do more to clean up the state's electric grid

12 years ago

Cheeky Botnet Pusher Markets Wares On Facebook

Facebook used to sell Zeus botnet console, showing cyber crooks are getting considerably more brazen

12 years ago

Half A Million Download Facebook Home, With Mixed Reactions

Facebook Home has user rating of 2.2 after more than 500,000 downloads

12 years ago

Facebook Data Centres Publish Real-Time Green Data

How green are Facebook's data centres? Check out the dashboards

12 years ago

Social Network Hostility On The Rise

Social networking users are becoming increasingly hostile to offensive comments posted by others online

12 years ago

Foursquare Gets $41m Investment Despite User Apathy

Foursquare may not be as hip as Facebook or Twitter, but VCs think location will happen one day...

12 years ago