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Social networking: Global phenomenon
News The latest statistics from ComScore show social networking sites such as Facebook are growing rapidly across the globe, even as that growth slows down in the US where they originated. The fastest-growing site is, not... [13 Aug 2008]
Battle of the social networks: Facebook outpaces MySpace
News MySpace, owned by News Corp since 2005, nevertheless remains far ahead of Facebook in the US, where both companies are based. New figures from metrics firm comScore show that, in May,... [24 Jun 2008]
Google, Yahoo! and MySpace announce OpenSocial Foundation
News Google first announced OpenSocial in October as a response to the plethora of announcements on behalf of social-networking sites that they would follow in Facebook's footsteps and create developer platforms of their own. [26 Mar 2008]
AOL snaps up Bebo for $850m
News Combined, they said, AOL will own a 'social graph' of 80 million people, bigger than the 67 million that the independently run Facebook currently counts but still significantly smaller than News... [13 Mar 2008]
MySpace and Skype to get chatty
News MySpace still leads the social networking field in membership and traffic but has lost its place in the spotlight to fast-growing rival Facebook. MySpace and Skype are set to announce a tie-in that will see the... [17 Oct 2007]
Should you ban social networking sites at work?
News And a further 24 per cent said they spend less than one hour per week checking out the likes of Bebo and Facebook. Staff access to popular social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace is banned... [14 Jun 2007]
Facebook opens the door to outsiders
News According to comScore, MySpace - which News Corp acquired in 2005 for $500m - saw 66 million monthly visitors in April compared with Facebook's 23 million. Social networking site... [25 May 2007]
Microsoft inks Facebook ad deal
News Microsoft failed to sign MySpace to an advertising deal, so the software giant went out and landed Facebook, the second-largest social networking site. Late on Tuesday evening, Microsoft announced... [23 Aug 2006]
US to block minors' access to MySpace?
News But now the online social-networking phenomenon as a whole is under attack from a proposed US federal law that would effectively require most schools and libraries to render social-networking websites, such as Facebook... [11 May 2006]
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