SocialMedia

Facebook IPO Will Help It Compete For Revenue With Google

Facebook is expected to file for its initial public offering today setting it up for more intense competition with Google

13 years ago

Salesforce Launches Desk.com Social Support Tool

Salesforce.com is targeting SMBs with a cloud-based helpdesk dashboard that integrates Facebook and Twitter feeds

13 years ago

Facebook Sues Over ‘Likejacking’ Scam

Facebook and the State of Washington are suing a marketing firm over a 'likejacking' scam that allegedly brought in up…

13 years ago

Google, Microsoft And Others Announce Anti-Phishing Initiative

An alliance between 15 companies is hoping to set a standard to effectively wipe out email phishing

13 years ago

Prisoners Use Smuggled Phones To Menace Victims On Facebook

Ministry of Justice catches 350 inmates using social network in past year, but more slip through the net

13 years ago

Report: Facebook Flotation Set For 1 February

The Wall Street Journal has reported that Facebook will hold its initial public offering on 1 February, setting the stage…

13 years ago

Google Adds Teens To Social Network

Google's next step in its challenge against Facebook is to accept teenagers aged 13 and older in most countries

13 years ago

FBI Seeking ‘Minority Report’ Crime Prediction Software

The FBI is seeking to develop software to scan Twitter and Facebook for 'emerging threats'

13 years ago

Twitter Expands WEF Debate Beyond Davos

KPMG says its now possible to be in Davos without actually being there after it monitors World Economic Forum tweets

13 years ago

Twitter Can Now Censor Tweets In Individual Countries

Twitter says it must block tweets to grow internationally, but promises to clearly mark when it does so

13 years ago

US Security Chief Calls EU 24-Hour Data Breach Notification Rule ‘Unworkable’

AT&T's chief privacy officer says the 24-hour deadline would force companies to notify all customers rather than just those affected

13 years ago

Facebook Forces Timeline On Users

Facebook's controversial re-design of the profile page will become mandatory in seven days

13 years ago

Tate Galleries Take Pictures Into the Cloud

Tate have raised their profile with a virtual gallery in the cloud, which will launch next month

13 years ago

Google Social Search Hit By ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Tool

Google continues to be being taken to task by Facebook, Twitter and MySpace over its personalised search

13 years ago

New EU Data Privacy Rules Will Give More Power To Regulators

Firms must repoert data breaches and could be fined up to one percent of their global revenues

13 years ago

Google+ Usage Statistics Confound Observers

Google's social network has 90 million users, but the search engine's statistics make Facebook comparisons difficult

13 years ago

World IPv6 Launch Sets 6 June As Target Date

Internet Society organised event sets out plans for IPv6

13 years ago

Facebook Launches 60 New Open Graph Apps

New apps expand the actions available to users and developers

13 years ago

Facebook Reveals Names of the Koobface Gang

Social network giant Facebook has released identities of those it believes to be behind the Koobface malware

13 years ago

Is Google Risking Anti-Trust Deliberately?

Clint Boulton examines an intriguing theory - that Google is deliberately provoking anti-trust investigation, in order to trap Facebook

13 years ago

IBM Debuts Social Business Event

The two-day IBM Connect event focuses on how businesses can meld social media, the cloud and mobile technologies

13 years ago

US Regulators To Probe Google Social Search

The US' Federal Trade Commission is to add Google's new 'Search, plus your world' service to its ongoing antitrust probe,…

13 years ago

Facebook Scraps With Google Over Social Search

Facebook and Google have traded blows over Facebook's exclusion from Google's new 'Search, plus your world' feature

13 years ago

Is CEOP Right About Twitter?

Things have moved on since CEOP's Facebook campaign, but child protection in social media still needs careful thought, says Peter…

13 years ago

CEOP Slams Twitter For Failing Children

Child protection body CEOP calls on Twitter to strengthen its reporting mechanisms to tackle problems of exploitation and abuse of…

13 years ago

Lotusphere Looms As IBM Expands Its Social Business Strategy

IBM is setting out its stall for Lotusphere 2012 with a set of new programmes and services to expand its…

13 years ago

Judge Denies Twitter Data Block Request

A decision in US federal court means Twitter will have to cooperate with prosecutors in their ongoing WikiLeaks probe

13 years ago

Facebook Ramnit Worm Variant Stole UK Log-In Credentials, Report Claims

The latest version of the Ramnit worm steals Facebook credentials and spams friends instead of relying on email

13 years ago

If Yahoo Gets The Wrong CEO, Who Cares Anymore?

Scott Thompson is a technologist, but Yahoo's problems are existential. What is the point of Yahoo in a post-portal age?…

13 years ago

Greenpeace And Facebook Decide To Friend One Another

Eco-warriors and social networkers decide to Like one another by joining forces to encourage green data centres

13 years ago