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Facebook CEO: No IPO for "years"
News Facebook's CEO has very publicly doused speculation about an imminent initial public offering. What with all the hype and frenzy surrounding Facebook, Zuckerberg not surprisingly attracted a spill-over audience crowding into the main ballroom of... [18 Oct 2007]
Facebook under attack: The spam and phishing threat
News The popular social-networking site Facebook is coming under increased attack by spammers and phishers, the company's security chief has revealed. Kelly explained the hack attacks included non-specific threats, such as edge-of-network penetration... [23 Apr 2008]
Facebook top of Vodafone's mobile web
News The top two searches on the operator's mobile internet service - which launched last summer - are social networking websites Facebook and Bebo. Facebook is also the most visited site for Vodafone mobile broadband users, followed by Google and the BBC. [01 May 2008]
Facebook users get voice updates
News Facebook and other social networking addicts can now post updates to their walls or Twitter feeds with voice calls through their mobile phones. The new service from SpinVox allows people to set up an account to manage their Facebook, Jaiku and... [25 Oct 2007]
LinkedIn takes a leaf out of Facebook
News But unlike Facebook, LinkedIn's Intelligent Application Platform will also allow companies to add LinkedIn features to their own websites. Liz O'Donnell, international director of LinkedIn, told silicon.com: "What's different about this, if you... [11 Dec 2007]
'Generation Facebook' IT skills wasted at work
News The tech savvy of 'generation Facebook' is going down the drain at work, new research has found. Tony Speakman, regional manager northern Europe at FileMaker, told silicon.com: "The generation of people coming into the workplace now have had... [03 Mar 2008]
Legal Eye: Scrabble-Facebook row spells trouble
Comment Facebook's Scrabulous application has sparked a row between the social networking site and the owners of the Scrabble brand. Only a few weeks ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was forced to change the way the Beacon advertising system worked after... [29 Jan 2008]
Dear silicon.com... young and old, clueless managers, life without Facebook
Comment Youngsters may be "tech savvy" but sending text messages doesn't come into most job descriptions and having a MySpace page or Facebook entry won't qualify you as a web designer either. Please send me fish for my Facebook Aquarium. [23 Aug 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 Facebook had agreed to allow the software company... [23 Aug 2006]
MySpace vs Facebook: The race is on...
News MySpace attracts the largest number of social network users in the UK but Facebook is catching up fast. According to figures from digital research group ComScore, MySpace had 10.76 million unique UK visitors in June 2007 and Facebook attracted... [01 Aug 2007]
Editor's Blog: The Facebook sweepstake
Comment When you meet friends or colleagues and have a few minutes to kill, take a punt on how long it takes for someone to mention Facebook. I say Facebook as the social networking phenomenon du jour but give yourself points for the mention of Bebo... [31 Jul 2007]
Amazon goes 'social shopping' on Facebook
News Online retailer Amazon has launched two applications for social networking site Facebook to allow users to share and buy products with their friends. People can also get gift recommendations based on information on their friends' Facebook profiles. [14 Mar 2008]
Microsoft cuts itself a slice of Facebook pie
News Microsoft will take a $240m equity stake in Facebook during its next round of financing, valuing the company at a whopping $15bn. There won't be any integration of Facebook into Microsoft services, nor will Microsoft's non-advertising properties... [25 Oct 2007]
Employers crack down on Facebook "addicts"
News Employers are being forced to crack down on staff accessing social networking website Facebook at work because of the high levels of usage, security risks and the drain on corporate network bandwidth. [31 Aug 2007]
Kaspersky warns of Facebook, MySpace worm
A new worm is spreading via Facebook and MySpace, turning victims' computers into zombies on a botnet, Kaspersky Lab said on Friday. Infected machines are propagating the worm by sending messages via the social networks to friends in the network. [04 Aug 2008]
