RSS FacebookFacebook adds Nielsen to friends for ads
News As part of the Advertising Week festivities in New York, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg is slated to make a marketing-related announcement on Tuesday morning. The announcement of a partnership with... [22 Sep 2009]
Facebook to kill Beacon: Info-sharing programme crumbles under privacy concerns
News It's finally over for Beacon, the ill-fated advertising programme that Facebook launched two years ago. The social network has settled a year-old class action lawsuit that targeted its alleged failure to provide adequate... [21 Sep 2009]
Microsoft files lawsuits in malicious-ad crackdown
News It pays for free online services like Windows Live, Facebook, Yahoo, and MSN. Aiming to crack down on a growing problem, Microsoft said it filed five lawsuits on Thursday against parties it suspects of posting online... [18 Sep 2009]
HP welcomes Marc Andreessen to board
News He also sits on the boards of eBay and Facebook. Two years after selling his software company to HP, Marc Andreessen has joined the PC giant's board of directors. HP announced the appointment, effective immediately, on... [18 Sep 2009]
Facebook: 'We're making money'
News Facebook announced on Tuesday it has achieved a positive cash-flow, and has reached 300 million active users around the world. A blog post from CEO Mark Zuckerberg read: "As of today, Facebook now serves... [16 Sep 2009]
Will software be Motorola's saviour?
News It's actually more than just software - Motorola is also essentially hosting an online service that will deliver Facebook updates and RSS feeds to individual phones - but it's emblematic of the shift towards software and... [15 Sep 2009]
Google steps up efforts to liberate user data
News But this is an industry-wide issue for internet companies in general: Facebook, for example, faced off with anxious users concerned about the difficulty in exporting Facebook data outside that site... [15 Sep 2009]
Photos: Motorola's first Android device
Photo MotoBlur is an app and service that syncs information from all the various connections, such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and personal and work email accounts, and automatically streams updates to the homescreen. [14 Sep 2009]
Facebook turns on the Lite
News Facebook is slimming down with the launch of a new Lite version. It appears, at a quick glance, to be a better site for Facebook newbies or for anyone who finds the current site overwhelming or noisy. [11 Sep 2009]
Back @ you, Twitter: Facebook adopts 'at links' tagging
News Facebook on Thursday announced that members can now link to other members' profiles in their status messages by using the @ symbol. This new feature basically means you can link to the profiles of your friends and other... [11 Sep 2009]
Motorola joins the Android Cliq with T-Mobile device
News As discussed in the keynote, MotoBlur syncs information from different sources, such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and personal and work email accounts, and automatically streams updates to the homescreen. [11 Sep 2009]
Salesforce.com tech to turn customers' Twittering into useful feedback
News For companies that want to turn all those customer tweets and updates on Twitter and Facebook into something more constructive, Salesforce.com is bringing some new services to its cloud-computing infrastructure. [10 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.09.09
Round-Up Bosses at Portsmouth City Council are banning Facebook after discovering their staff spent, on average, 400 hours on the site every month. Spending 20 seconds per day on Facebook is about enough time to... [04 Sep 2009]
Photos: Nokia and Sony Ericsson unveil latest phones, laptops and tablets
Photo The handset, aimed at social networking enthusiasts, comes with a five megapixel camera, Facebook integration, 8GB of memory, and GPS with Ovi Maps and navigation. This week has seen mobile makers Nokia and Sony Ericsson... [03 Sep 2009]
Nokia's new mobiles take aim at Facebooking music lovers
News Nokia, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, on Wednesday announced new phones loaded with more music features and better integration with Facebook, as well as pricing for its upcoming netbook. And the device will... [03 Sep 2009]
