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News Microsoft gauged Facebook's interest in a possible acquisition after the software giant's failed takeover attempt of Yahoo! The newspaper reported on its website that Microsoft's bankers put out subtle signals to Facebook, the social networking...
[08 May 2008]
News Among those Ballmer named were AOL, Facebook, MySpace and Yahoo! But Ballmer has not been able to come up with another alternative that would enhance Microsoft's online advertising business the way Yahoo!
[02 May 2008]
News The group - which includes the American Academy of Pediatrics, Children Now, and the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD)- plans to ask the Federal Trade Commission this week to establish rules that will help protect teens from data collection and...
[10 Apr 2008]
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 Corp.s MySpace.com.
[13 Mar 2008]
Comment Only a few weeks ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was forced to change the way the Beacon advertising system worked after receiving 50,000 complaints from users over releasing information about their internet activities without permission.
[29 Jan 2008]
Round-Up In the joint conference call, Microsoft and Facebook emphasised that this deal is all about broadening the existing advertising partnership between the two companies, which has been going on for over a year now.
[26 Oct 2007]
News People who are already signed up with Facebook, for example, can change their status and update their wall by making a mobile phone call without the need to send a text message or email or go online. Facebook and other social networking addicts can...
[25 Oct 2007]
News Facebook is "quietly" assembling a new advertising model that will take advantage of the copious amounts of personal information its members post on their profiles, according to a report on the Wall Street Journal's website.
[23 Aug 2007]
News The government's Central Office of Information (COI) has put a freeze on advertising on user-generated pages of social networking websites such as Facebook, the Financial Times reports. Last week, New Media Age reported that adverts for Capital One...
[06 Aug 2007]
News Having a killer app alone is not enough to succeed - successful online businesses are those that evolve into web platforms which support wider ecosystems of developers, in the manner of a Google, Facebook or Second Life.
[13 Jul 2007]
Cheat Sheet Users of web stalwarts such as Facebook, Flickr and MySpace have been able to post content to their profiles via their handsets for a while now but there are bigger ideas kicking around out there. For example Cisco has 1,500 employees using...
[15 Jun 2007]
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