SocialMedia

Five Disturbingly Simple Ways to Steal Facebook Logins

There are some simple ways to hack Facebook accounts, so users should be wary about what they hand over to…

13 years ago

Facebook Buys Instagram Over Protests Of Some Users

Facebook is to pay £630m for Instagram, though some of the photo-sharing app's 30 million users have complained that the…

13 years ago

Yahoo To Slash 2,000 Staff, More To Come

Redundancies to affect all areas of the company

13 years ago

Ice IX Malware Variant Steals Facebook Users’ Credit Card Details

Modified malware uses a web injection to imitate Facebook and ask for personal details

13 years ago

Facebook Countersues Yahoo Over Patents

Facebook has hit back at Yahoo's lawsuit and filed its own countersuit, accusing it of infringing ten patents

13 years ago

Apple Pulls ‘Stalker App’ From App Store

Girls Around Me allowed users to track women on location-based services

13 years ago

Facebook Shaping Secret Social Search Engine

Facebook is reportedly developing an improved social search engine as it gears up for its forthcoming IPO

13 years ago

Facebook Heads For $5bn May IPO

Private trades are closed, as Mark Zuckerberg plans to float Facebook in May

13 years ago

Vulnerabilities Uncovered in Google, Facebook Single Sign-On

Research from Microsoft and Indiana Universtiy Bloomington finds a range of ways to hijack the single sign-on systems used across…

13 years ago

Friends Reunited Relaunches As Nostalgia Site

Owner Brightsolid wants users memories as the veteran social network re-emerges

13 years ago

Facebook Condemns Employers Asking For Job Seekers’ Passwords

Facebook is officially pushing back against employers who want job applicants to disclose their Facebook passwords

13 years ago

Apple and Facebook in US App Privacy Probe

US Congressmen ask for info on what data social app makers are taking

13 years ago

Facebook Bolsters Legal Defences By Purchasing 750 IBM Patents

Pre-IPO Facebook has bought 750 patents from IBM to better defend against Yahoo's lawsuit

13 years ago

EMC Combines Big Data, Social Nets And App Development With Pivotal Labs Buy

Pivotal Tracker will combine with EMC's Chorus to harmonise applications for Big Data developers

13 years ago

Mitel Files Patent Lawsuit Against Pre-IPO Facebook

Facebook dealt another patent suit in run up to initial public offering

13 years ago

Yahoo Is Risking Its Reputation With Facebook Lawsuit

Yahoo treads a dangerous path in attempting to profit from Facebook, writes Chris Preimesberger

13 years ago

Yahoo Hits Facebook With Patent Suit

Ailing search giant Yahoo follows through on patent threat against Facebook/p>

13 years ago

NATO Admiral Hit By ‘Chinese’ Facebook Attack

Information about friends, family and colleagues of NATO's most senior admniral were harvested by social engineering attack

13 years ago

Facebook Suffers Outage In Parts Of Europe And Asia

Early morning downtime reported by users across several countries

13 years ago

Libel And The Social Media Is A Corporate Issue

On the Internet, everybody can hear you scream - or belch or break wind - because nothing is erased, not…

13 years ago

Study: Enterprises Blacklist Facebook, Angry Birds

Facebook, Angry Birds and web browsers topped the list of applications blacklisted or monitored by companies looking to control mobile…

13 years ago

Facebook Timeline Makeover For Pages Offers Better Ad Canvas

Facebook's Timeline user interface has been applied to its Pages promotional palettes for organisations and brands

13 years ago

Facebook Announces Premium Advertising Tools

Brands given Timeline-formatted pages, mobile ads and Reach Generator in pre-IPO effort to raise revenue

13 years ago

Google Pushes Out Its Privacy Policy Changes Despite Regulatory Disdain

Google is going ahead with privacy policy changes today despite pleas from European Union and US officials

13 years ago

Facebook Denies Spying On Android Users’ SMS Texts

The social network giant accuses The Sunday Times of misunderstanding its Android app's SMS functionality

13 years ago

Yahoo Threatens Patent Lawsuit Against Facebook

Yahoo says Facebook infringed between 10 and 20 of its patents

13 years ago

MWC 2012: Facebook Pushes Mobile Web Standards Effort

Facebook and more than 30 other companies are to back the Core Mobile Web Platform Community Group

13 years ago