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Privacy Groups Call For Probe Into £11.4bn Facebook WhatsApp Takeover
US regulators face calls from privacy advocates to investigate Facebook's expensive acquisition of WhatsApp
Facebook Cracks Down On Gun Toters
Facebook to warn any gun dealers using illicit sales tactics
Facebook Looks To Drone Technology To Connect The World To The Web
Potential purchase of drone specialists Titan Aerospace will allow Facebook to further expand its Internet.org connectivity project
MWC 2014: Ericsson, GSMA, Join Facebook’s World Connection Crusade
Zuckerberg's MWC keynote features Facebook's Internet.org project, which now has Ericsson on board with a network lab, and the GSMA arguing for tax cuts to operators
WhatsApp Rebuffed Google Advances In Favour Of Facebook Deal – Report
WhatApp founders reportedly turned down a Google takoever offer in favour of Facebook, despite being offered more money
Social Media Reputation Repair Can Be Costly, Microsoft Warns
The financial cost of embarrassing or malicious Facebook posts can be very significant, a new study revels
Why WhatsApp Is Worth £11.4bn To Facebook
Facebook's purchase of WhatsApp protects its mobile business and allows it to expand to new markets, says Steve McCaskill
Facebook Agrees To Buy WhatsApp For £11.4bn
Facebook will take over the popular mobile instant messaging app
Vodafone Rejects Requests For Free Access To Facebook
Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao says Facebook asked him to carry its data for free on the Vodafone network in developing countries, by dropping the social network from data plans
Facebook Open Sources ‘Efficient’ Encryption Tool For Android Devs
Conceal APIs seek to make encryption done by Android apps efficient and simple
Facebook Marks 10th Anniversary With Mobile News App
The social network, which launched 10 years ago on 4 February, has introduced a second-generation news aggregator for smartphones
Facebook: The Mixed Legacy Of Its First Ten Years
Facebook turns ten as observers debate its social legacy and its future
Facebook Beats Expectations With Record Earnings
Facebook has beaten analyst expectations after it revealed its best-ever quarterly results
Microsoft Reveals Data Centre Secrets And Joins Open Compute Project
Facebook's Open Compute Project can share Azure, Bing and Office365 data centre designs now Microsoft has signed up
US Companies Allowed To Publish NSA Data Request Numbers
Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo and LinkedIn win a battle against the NSA, but the war is far from over
Facebook “To Lose 80 Percent of Users By 2017”
Research from Princeton University compares Facebook to an ‘infectious disease” and predicts we will all recover
Facebook Preparing To Launch ‘Paper’ Reader App
The big idea? To take on news services such as Flipboard
Facebook To Share User Data With Russia’s Yandex
The social network looks to get some traction in Russia
Facebook Snaps Up App Optimisation Developer Little Eye Labs
Rumoured $15 million acquisition should help Facebook improve and expand its mobile offerings
Inside The World’s Most Interesting Data Centres
Data centres have to be efficient. That doesn't stop them being beautiful
Google, Apple, Facebook To Pay After Bus Protests
A storm in a bus stop as tech firms agree to contribute after street protests in San Francisco
Facebook Sued Over Message Scanning Allegations
Facebook has been slapped with a lawsuit over allegations it scans the private messages of users
Eric Schmidt Takes Responsibility For Google’s Social Networking Failures
We should have seen Facebook was coming, says Google’s chairman
Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Skype Social Pages And Blog
Hackers leave anti-NSA spying messages across Microsoft-run accounts
Facebook Acquires Sports Data Startup Sportstream
Facebook wants you to talk about all the football all the time
Facebook Is About To Launch Video Advertising
On Thursday, social network users will be treated to an exclusive trailer for ‘Divergent’
Instagram Direct Arrives For User Messaging And Sharing
Instagram Direct adds a direct messaging option to allow users to better share their photos with others
Google And Facebook: Back Off Government, Snooping Is Our Business!
How can Facebook and Google tell the US government to limit surveillance, and then ask for more scope for snoop themselves, asks Tom Brewster
Social Media Users Warned Over Court Case Comments
British social networking users warned by Attorney General Dominic Grieve over commenting on court cases