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Facebook User Base Reaches One Billion
Mark Zuckerberg confirms Facebook has reached the historic milestone
Facebook Promoted Posts Launches In The US
Facebook offers users the chance to pay to top their friends' news feeds
Facebook Privacy Boosted As French Watchdog Dismisses Message ‘Bug’
French data protection watchdog says claims of a bug revealing private messages on users' walls are nonsense
Oracle Ties SaaS Apps To Social Media Platform
Oracle has added social media functionality to all of its Cloud-based business applications
Facebook Mobile Payments Go Live
Facebook is now offering 'frictionless' payments via mobile devices in the UK, US and Germany
Facebook Denies Privacy Bug, French Government Demands Explanation
Panic as old posts surface - but is Facebook to blame?
Facebook Removes Face Recognition Software In Europe
Social network withdraws facial recognition features voluntarily after Irish audit
US Court Will Not Challenge Facebook Privacy Settlement
US appeals court rejected the claims that £5.8m settlement favours Facebook and lawyers
Facebook Data Centre Engineer Develops Troubleshooting Tool
A Facebook engineer has built a heatmap monitoring tool to help troubleshoot data centre infrastructure
Dreamforce 2012: JP Rangaswami – I Hope Salesforce Stays A Start Up Forever
Salesforce is still a start-up and should remain so, chief scientist JP Rangaswami tells TechWeekEurope
Dreamforce 2012: Is Benioff Right To Follow Facebook In All-Social Strategy?
Analysis: Benioff tells TechWeekEurope he loves Facebook but is he right in borrowing from a firm that has had a difficult year after its troubled IPO?
Open Compute Publishes Open Rack Data Centre Standard
The Open Compute Project has released its latest hardware specs for more power efficient data centres
Dreamforce 2012: Salesforce.com Adds Marketing Cloud For Social Insight
Salesforce.com brings together two of its biggest acquisitions - Radian6 and Buddy Media - for social marketing service
Winklevoss Twins Invest $1m In New Professional Social Network
Winklevoss Twins use some of their Facebook settlement to invest in SumZero
Survey Finds Hope For Facebook In Social Search
Facebook could quickly come to rival Google in social search, according to a survey from marketing agency Greenlight
Small Businesses Continue To Reap Social Media Benefits
Small businesses continue to adopt social networking platforms, with Google+ proving surprisingly popular
Eolas Sues Facebook, Disney and Wal-Mart Over University Of California Patents
Three major US companies infringe University of California patents, says Eolas
Huddle Plots American Invasion With US Government Push
Huddle reveals new product, data centre and Washington DC office as it looks to conquer the US and beat Microsoft on its home turf
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Mobile Mistakes Won’t Extend To Smartphone
Facebook CEO remains optimistic about social network's mobile prospects but rules out smartphone
Quiz Of The Week: Facebook
Think you know everything about the original social network? Prove it!
Facebook Targets Fake ‘Likes’
Facebook has stepped up its measures against fake 'Likes', as it faces investor pressure to prove its worth to advertisers
Facebook Shares Down As Co-Founder Offloads More Stock
Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz has continued to reduce his shareholding in the social networking giant
IBM Pays $1.3bn For HR Software Maker Kenexa
IBM's all-cash deal for Kenexa will allow it to enter the booming human resources software market and reinforce its social-business offerings
Twitter’s Fake Identity Crisis
Feature: The market for fake followers is causing big problems for tweeters, but Twitter isn't doing much to help, TechWeekEurope finds
Le Web 2012 (Video): Riding The Wave Of Social Advertising
An interview with Ebuzzing from this summer’s entrepreneur conference
Facebook’s Instagram Buy Approved, Now Worth ‘Only’ $750m
US regulators approve buy, but the value of the deal drops significantly thanks to Facebook's shares dive
Inside the Facebook Green Data Centre: Pictures
Facebook's data centre in Oregon is an energy efficiency leader. We took a look inside
Facebook Shares Reach Fresh Low
Social network praying its ad push will pay off
Facebook Tests Unsocial Ads In Newsfeeds
Facebook might put advertising in your newsfeed, whether you “Like” it or not