SocialMedia

What Do Facebook Users Gain From Sharing Data?

Facebook claims that users will benefit from sharing their contact details with developers. Pull the other one, says Sophie Curtis

14 years ago

Facebook Says Users Have Privacy Control

Sharing contact details is all about improving user experience, says Facebook

14 years ago

Critics Bash Facebook For Sharing Phone Numbers

Rogue apps will be able to harvest contact details shared by Facebook, warn experts

14 years ago

IPv6 Test Flight Has Risks – But Huge Benefits

On 8 June, we'll find out if the global, open Internet has a future, says Leslie Daigle, the Internet Society's…

14 years ago

Facebook, Google And Yahoo Join Giant IPv6 Test

The world's biggest websites will test the new IPv6 protocol before IPv4 addresses run out

14 years ago

Facebook Shut Down Rumours Debunked

Facebook will continue to operate, the company has confirmed, after false reports that the site will close

14 years ago

Google Hasn’t Given Up On Social Yet

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said Google has give up on social. Clint Boulton disagrees, but Google won't beat Facebook…

14 years ago

Facebook May Have To State Financials – Or Go Public

Facebook is near the SEC's 500-private shareholder threshold and may have to publicly state financials by 2012

14 years ago

LinkedIn Rumoured To Go Public In 2011,

Professional social networking site LinkedIn is planning to go public later this year, according to reports

14 years ago

Goldman’s $450m Facebook Investment Signals New Dotcom Boom

A big private investment helps Facebook stay private, and builds expectations of a new boom in Internet stocks, says Peter…

14 years ago

Study: Facebook Tops 2010 Search Terms

The word 'facebook' accounted for 2 percent of all searches, with Google terms also ranking high

14 years ago

Facebook Revises Bug Disclosure Policy

In an effort to ease fears that bug submitters could be subject to legal action, Facebook has re-worded its vulnerability…

14 years ago

Facebook’s Facial Recognition Adds Tags Automatically

Facebook is adding a facial recognition capability to tag friends' images automatically on the social network

14 years ago

Mark Zuckerberg Named As Time’s Person of the Year 2010

Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has been named Time’s Person of the Year for 2010

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Facebook Crimes Soar Over 100,000 In Five Years

Facebook is a hotbed of crime, linked to 100,000 calls to police in the UK, according to a report

14 years ago

Facebook’s Zuckerberg To Donate Fortune To Charity

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and 16 other billionaires have signed up to Bill Gates's Giving Pledge

14 years ago

Facebook To Revamp User Profiles

Facebook's new-style profile pages will show off tagged photos and bring user information together in one place

14 years ago

Data Centre Carbon Counting – Could It Cool The Arguments?

When Facebook fell out with Greenpeace over coal-fired power, the new Green Grid measurement might have helped sort things out,…

14 years ago

Facebook Users Warned About Rogue Profile App

A rogue app is circulating Facebook that promises to show users who has visited their profile pages

14 years ago

Poll: Users Sceptical Of Facebook Messages’ Success

Facebook's messaging system isn't likely to replace email accounts, according to a Wall Street Journal poll

14 years ago

BitDefender Warns Of Malware-laden Facebook Postings

A security vendor is warning that Facebook users are still being exposed to malicious posts and threats

14 years ago

Google And Facebook Trample Over Web Startups

Facebook and Google are feasting on tiny web startups, either by duplicating their services or buying their technology, says Clint…

14 years ago

Social Disease: Facebook, Google Track NHS Site Visits

Facebook and Google know about what illnesses you looked up on your visit to the NHS Choices site

14 years ago

Facebook Dominates Google For Page Views

Facebook received one quarter of all page views in the US during a week, dwarfing the likes of YouTube and…

14 years ago

Berners-Lee Warns Facebook Could Harm The Web

Walled gardens like Facebook and iTunes could restrict the openness on which the web relies, warns Tim Berners-Lee

14 years ago

IT Managers Struggle To Tackle Emerging Threats

IT security is a high priority but staff struggle with emerging threats from social networking, mobiles and the cloud

14 years ago

Facebook Fault Prevents Women From Logging On

Women were briefly locked out of their Facebook accounts earlier this week due to a bug in the social network

14 years ago

Reaping The Business Benefits Of Social Networks

Collaboration tools with social features provide a powerful foundation for sharing information and linking experts within your organisation

14 years ago

Google’s Schmidt Welcomes Competition From Facebook Messages

Google boss Eric Schmidt has said that Facebook Messages is good for competition, despite the threat it poses to Gmail

14 years ago

Half of SMBs Ban Facebook At Work

Fifty percent of SMBs in the UK and US ban their staff from accessing social networking websites, a Webroot survey…

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