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Nielsen Social Media report shows Pinterest grew by leaps and bounds
- Most would probably agree that 2012 has been the coming out party for social networking. Sure, Facebook has been popular for many years after it trumped MySpace but more recent entrants have played a huge part in shaping how people…
Mozilla integrates Facebook Messenger into latest Firefox browser
- If you’re the type that likes to distance yourself from social media, odds are you probably aren’t terribly fond of the fact that it’s being integrated directly into a growing number of seemingly unrelated products. The latest prominent piece of…
Rumor: Facebook eyeing mobile messaging service WhatsApp
- Rumor has it that Facebook is interested in buying the hugely popular cross-platform messaging service WhatsApp, in a move for the social network to “extend touchpoints with mobile consumers”. The ad-free messaging app has about 100 million daily users, with…
Rumor: Yahoo discussing search alliance with Facebook
- Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg are reportedly in talks about how the two companies can work more closely together. The Telegraph notes the two have already collaborated on a number of small projects, and recently agreed…
Social Jobs Partnership launches Facebook app with 1.7M open jobs
- A new Facebook application called the Social Jobs Partnership launched earlier today allows recruiters to post job listings directly on Facebook. This appears to be the same Facebook job board project that the Wall Street Journal touched on back during…
Three Facebook executives sell stock as trading restrictions are lifted
- A number of Facebook employees are now able to sell shares they were awarded when the company went public earlier this year. Three executives, including the social network’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, took advantage of the lifted restrictions and…
Federal agents arrest Paul Ceglia, charge him with mail and wire fraud
- Federal agents arrested Paul Ceglia at his home in Wellsville, New York, this morning and charged him with mail and wire fraud as part of a multi-billion dollar scheme to defraud Facebook and its founder Mark Zuckerberg. If convicted, he…
Digital rights activist buys data of 1.1 million Facebook users for $5
- Bogomil Shopova recently purchased a collection of 1.1 million Facebook users' names, IDs and e-mail accounts. Fortunately, the Bulgarian blogger and digital rights activist has no intentions of spamming the list or hacking into accounts- he did it to prove…
Iceland residents draft, approve of crowdsourced constitution
- A year ago Iceland found themselves between a rock and a hard place. The country was in the middle of a crippling economic recession that sparked multiple protests from disgruntled citizens. Rather than try to sort out the mess on…
Facebook third quarter earnings barely top Wall Street estimates
- Facebook’s third quarter financials ever so slightly topped Wall Street estimates. The social network reported revenue of $1.26 billion on the quarter ending September 30, just north of analysts’ predictions of $1.23 billion. Earnings leveled out at 12 cents per…
Facebook bug silently tallies up extra "likes"
- Facebook is once again finding itself under investor scrutiny after a U.S. security researcher uncovered a flaw in its "like" system which appears to be responsible for liking sites an unintended number of times. Although Facebook has pointed to a…
Facebook breaks past one billion active users milestone
- A million active users isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion active users… and Facebook has just crossed that milestone as revealed in a short post by the company’s CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg. To put that into perspective,…
New Facebook feature lets you pay to promote photos and posts
- Facebook has unveiled a new experimental feature that will allow members to promote important status updates or photos for a nominal fee. If you’re willing to shell out an average of $7, Facebook will guarantee that your paid-for post will…
Is Facebook Gifts the next big revenue source for the social network?
- Facebook has unveiled a new service called Facebook Gifts that will allow users to purchase and send real-life gifts to other members. The social network said members would be able to buy gifts as part of birthday reminders or by…
Facebook to delete EU facial recognition data on October 15
- The Irish Data Protection Commissioner announced the results of the latest audit into Facebook (PDF) Friday, revealing that the social network intends to delete its facial recognition data and stop using the technology in Europe next month as it works…
Facebook's new mobile ad network will show you ads on other sites
- Facebook has launched a beta version of their new mobile ad service that will allow them to serve targeted ads to users even when they visit other websites or apps. Member information such as gender, age, location and Likes can…
Google+ now has 400 million users, 100 million active each month
- Google has revealed that more than 400 million users now have Google+ accounts and more than 100 million people are active on the service each month. It’s quite the accomplishment considering their social network has only been online for just…
Zuckerberg says Facebook wasted two years betting on HTML5
- Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was a featured guest during TechCrunch’s ongoing Disrupt conference in San Francisco. In his first public interview since the dreadful IPO back in May, the social network founder said the biggest mistake Facebook made was betting…
Microsoft's "Bing It On" search-off pits Bing against Google
- Firmly believing in the power of Bing, Microsoft is daring skeptics to compare its own search results against those of its arch nemesis, Google. The company's "Bing it On" initiative provides a blind, side-by-side challenge between the rivals, selecting the…
Facebook re-writes iOS app, revises Messages, cleared for Instagram deal
- Facebook has been a hive of activity this week. The social network’s Messages app has been updated and now looks more like an email inbox, iOS users have been treated to a completely re-written Facebook app, and the FTC has…
Editorial: Why I Left Facebook After 7 Years, But Was Forced Back In
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The early days of Facebook were much different from now. The site layout and profile pages were very basic, and the young and reckless didn't have to worry about family members or employers stumbling across their questionable photos.
But as Facebook closes in on one billion active users, its overwhelming success is mostly why I've decided to end my long-standing relationship with the social network. Seven years is a long time to maintain any online account, much less one that demands almost daily attention.
New Facebook photo storage system actually removes deleted pics
- Facebook privacy concerns are nothing new but now that the company has gone public, they appear to be cleaning up their act. Although there’s still a lot of work to be done, we are now hearing that a new photo…
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