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When you're perusing your Facebook account, your brain might be fooling you into thinking you're doing something incredibly creative and productive that will improve your life. If only that were true! More »

Tim Odom shared their album on Facebook2011 and earlier

Facebook layout changes are rarely welcomed with open arms by the majority of users and Timeline has been no exception. A whopping of 70% of people wh…

Yes, it's another startup that wants to help businesses manage their presence on Facebook. Social Candy CEO Darin Kotalik admits that the'res no shortage of competition, but he's hoping to differentiate his company by combining ease-of-use and breadth of features. The company just announced that it's expanding those features with by allowing businesses to offer coupons through their Social Can...

Missouri voters head to the polls today, and almost half of adult Facebook users in the state say they'd cast their vote for Ron Paul, according to a Facebook/POLITICO poll. Forty-three percent of those surveyed said they would vote for Paul, compared with 36 percent for Rick Santorum and 21 percent for Mitt Romney. Newt Gingrich, who did not appear on Missouri's ballot, was not included in th...

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Facebook, whose membership is fast approaching a billion, is pondering its next big frontier — China.

Gegen Google und Facebook kann sich Yahoo nicht mehr behaupten. Aus dem kriselnden Konzern hatte sich vor drei Wochen bereits dessen Mitgründer Jerry Yang zurückgezogen. Jetzt verlassen vier Aufsichtsratsmitglieder das Unternehmen - darunter Chef-Kontrolleur Roy Bostock.

Werbekunden schalten ihre Anzeigen schon längst lieber bei Google und Facebook. Das bringt Yahoo weiter in Bedrängnis. Jetzt verlässt auch der Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender Roy Bostock das Unternehmen.

The End of Academic Library Circulation? Print on the Margins: Circulation Trends in Major Research Libraries Teens join Twitter to escape parents on Facebook: survey Teens slowly migrating to Twitter Academic E-Books: Innovation and Transition Is Facebook Really a Good Business? Who Does Google Think You Are? A tool tells users what the company infers about your interests and age Social Me...

Palestinian Authority security forces monitor Palestinian Facebook activity, criticism should be directed only against Israel.

David Choe, a graffiti artist who chose Facebook stock instead of cash when he spray-painted the Facebook offices in 2005, says he could be worth more than $500 million. Mr. Choe took to the airwaves on Tuesday to discuss his windfall on The Howard Stern Show.

Das soziale Netzwerk schafft einen neuen Posten für die ehemalige Apple-Werberin Rebecca van Dyck. Damit vollzieht Facebook die Abkehr von reiner Mund-Propaganda zu traditionellem Marketing.

B.C. adolescent accused of using Facebook to persuade children to perform sex acts on webcam

Rep. Sue Myrick (R-N.C.) is retiring at the end of her term. Myrick has represented North Carolina’s Charlotte-area 9th district since 1995. Before that she was the first female mayor of Charlotte. She announced her decision in a YouTube video posted on her Facebook page. Read full article >>

Sechs Stunden im Flughafenhotel in Wien: Der Facebook-Kritiker Max Schrems bekam Besuch vom obersten Europa-Lobbyisten des Konzerns. mehr...

Facebook may be the last great company of the desktop age. It's beaten back Friendster, MySpace and a half-dozen other pretenders, and ? at least so far ? is successfully holding off both Twitter and Google+. Its desktop display advertisements make the company billions of dollars in revenue. But that's not nearly enough. Now, Zuckerberg has to further capitalize on the growth of mobile to exten...

Der Jurastudent Max Schrems und Facebook haben stundenlang über den Umgang des Unternehmens mit Nutzerdaten geredet. Facebook will daran arbeiten, doch das wird dauern.

Facebook s'engage à "résoudre les plaintes" en matière de protection des données. Une déclaration faite ce mardi après une rencontre à Vienne de ses…

BERLIN (Reuters) - Police in the German state of Lower-Saxony will soon use their networks of Facebook "friends" to find missing persons and hunt out suspected criminals, according to the state's interior minister.

Facebook bars children under the age of 13 from using the site, but children are lured to the site by games and lie about their ages - by age six, 66 per cent of children are aware of the site.

Das soziale Netzwerk weist auf sein Formular hin, bei dem Nutzer Inhalte mit Selbstmordbezug melden können.

Über 800 Millionen Nutzer zählt Facebook inzwischen, doch nicht hinter jedem Profil versteckt sich auch eine gute Absicht: Immer häufiger nutzen Cyberkriminelle das soziale Netzwerk, um mittels gefälschter Profile schadhafte Links zu verbreiten und so sensible Nutzerdaten abzugreifen. Doch was unterscheidet echte Facebook-Profile von falschen, und woran lassen sich gefälschte Identitäten erkenn...

Expensive digital gizmos could soon become standard in current accounts, experts say, threatening the future of free day-to-day banking in Britain.

Social Media giant, Facebook had already employed 3000 people and it seems to grow more in the future. Reportedly, Facebook will be hiring thousands of new candidates during this year.

Wien (dpa) - Der Wiener Jurastudent Max Schrems hat sich als Kritiker des weltgrößten Online-Netzwerks Facebook auch international einen Namen gemacht. Jetzt kamen Facebook-Vertreter nach Österreich,...

Nearly half of UK children under the age of 12 are using Facebook despite being too young to do so, according to a new piece of research.

It was almost 14 years ago when you bought the instrumental CD of "The Boy is Mine" at Sam Goody just so you could sing both parts in your bedroom, and Monica and Brandy's voices are back together for a new single called "It All Belongs To Me" that will be on both of their new albums. It should've been called "The Check is Mine," because this is not the shit I've be...

An Austrian group lobbying Facebook for better privacy controls is taking the site to task for letting users' data be published without permission.

Summary of business headlines: Wall Street ends lower; Yum Brands exceeds Wall Street's appetite; Boeing discovers 787 problem; Google, Facebook face Indian censorship.

Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers in a timely manner nearly three years after Ars first brought attention to the topic.

OHHHH…. WOW!!! As if we needed further evidence that the GOP is just a big circus… Republican Congressman John Fleming actually posted an Onion article for his loyal followers to read AS FACT! The headline boasts "Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex!!!" with his own caption as "more on Planned Parenthood, abortion by the wholesale." So now there [...]

Hans Sarpei selbst ist der Erste, der den Link auf Facebook veröffentlicht hat: Jetzt gibt es den neuen Badge des Kultstars für dein Profil!Foto: SPORT BILD/Firo

Inna Novikova, the editor-in-chief of Pravda.Ru, had her account hacked on February 4th at night. An hour later, according to Facebook regulations, Inna indicated three friends, who could confirm her identity. However, Inna Novikova's account was frozen. Is the head of Facebook Russia working against Facebook?

Pinterest ist ein Online-Netzwerk wie Facebook und Google+, doch hier geht es nur um schöne Bilder: Auf der Plattform zeigen und teilen User Fotos und Videos in originellen Collagen. Pinterest gilt schon als das nächste große Ding im Web. Von FOCUS-Online-Autorin Claudia FrickelMehr zum ThemaKönigin 2.0 - So rockt Queen Elizabeth das InternetKönigin 2.0 - Der Blick durchs Schlüsselloch von Quee...

"Active users" add up in Facebook's prospectus, but some of those clicks aren't on the Web site.

CAIRO — Julie Hughes, a veteran pro-democracy worker, was crushed when she missed out on Egypt’s revolt last year. In a Facebook posting at the time, she said, “It’s like having your next door neighbor throw an incredibly joyous party and you don’t get an invitation.” Read full article >>

redletterdave writes "In the weeks leading up to Facebook's massive $100 billion initial public offering, Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and the other banks involved in the IPO to stop leaking information to the media. Zuckerberg was reportedly unhappy that the banks leaked details about his company's Wall Street debut, including the Feb. 1 date it...

Google and Facebook have removed content from some Indian domain websites following a court directive warning them of a crackdown “like China” if they do not take steps to protect religious sensibilities.

FACEBOOK and Twitter must be forced to sign official codes of conduct to help stop stalking, report says

AN UNUSUAL sight unfolded at Hanover Quay, Dublin, yesterday morning, when a group of parents gathered outside Facebook’s European headquarters. A gaggle of toddlers dutifully holding on to their mothers’ coats with one hand grasped protest signs with the other.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook's corporate governance rules, which give shareholders little say in how the social networking website would be run as a public company, are raising the hackles of one of the largest U.S. investors, the California State Teachers' Retirement System.

I am not on Facebook but that doesn't mean I'm a Luddite. Quite the opposite; I enjoy embracing new technology.

Within days of its debut on Twitter, the Prime Minister's Office is exploring ways to best utilize the social networking site by addressing grievances of common people.

While some may look at Facebook and see a cashbox or a narcissistic echo chamber, at least for today, we can see it as the social engine that may well have saved at least one woman's life.

The government says U.S. Internet standards are unacceptable for the more than 100 million Internet users in the country.

With businesses built around secondary trades in shares of the social network, the markets will face a sharp drop in trading volume after its IPO

Kanzlerin Merkel und Frankreichs Nicolas Sarkozy geben in einem gemeinsamen Interview im ZDF einen neuen Beweis für ihre innige politische Beziehung. Merkel hat gute Gründe für diese Wahlkampfhilfe. Von FOCUS-Online-Korrespondentin Martina Fietz, BerlinMehr zum ThemaPolitisch motivierte Gewalt - Zahl linker Gewalttaten stieg 2011 deutlich anStreit um Länderfinanzausgleich - Söder verurteilt NRW...

Judge tells 21 companies to bar access to material deemed religiously offensive, or face China-style actionGoogle and Facebook have removed content from some Indian websites after a court warned that India would crack down "like China" if they did not take steps to protect religious sensibilities.The two are among 21 companies ordered to develop a mechanism to block material considered religiou...

Paul Ficheroulle a posté lundi après-midi sur le réseau social Facebook un message dans lequel il fait allusion à sa défaite de samedi face à Eric Massin, désign...lire la suitehistoires liées17:31 L’islamiste jordanien Abou Qatada va être libéré sous conditions17:27 Mehal (MoDem) conseille à Guéant de laisser les historiens juger17:49 Un mort dans des affrontements indiens/police contre des pr...

The idea that all street artists are impoverished souls eking out an existence for the love of their craft is a passé and somewhat naive notion in our age of Banksy, Shepard Fairey and other creative types who have parlayed their underground success into lucrative businesses. We might soon be able to add to their ranks artist David Choe, who has created a number of murals for Facebook headquar...

IPO filing flagged to potential investors Facebook lacked ‘meaningful revenue’ from mobile platforms

L'entrée en Bourse de Facebook va faire bondir la fortune du fondateur de l'entreprise… et son avis d'imposition.Articles en rapportPlus de contribuables vont payer des impôts en 2012

L'entrée en Bourse de Facebook va faire bondir la fortune du fondateur de l'entreprise… et son avis d'imposition.

The gadget is part of the sat-nav system in upcoming SL class models, and lets users update their location on Facebook at the wheel - but safety campaigners say it will lead to an increase in deaths.

YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr: Die Königin von England, Elizabeth II., lässt im Web Einblicke in ihren Alltag zu. Auch mit iPad, iPod und Handy weiß die 85-jährige Monarchin umzugehen. Von FOCUS-Online-Autorin Claudia Frickel

Wer Bilder bei Facebook löscht, muss damit rechnen, dass diese irgendwann wieder ans Tageslicht gelangen, denn das Social Network schafft es nicht, sie unwiederbringlich zu entfernen. Sie mögen zwar von den Seiten verschwunden sein, doch wer den direkten Link hat, kann sie noch jahrelang aufrufen. mehr...

How Facebook and other Internet services like Google track your online interests and behaviors and oher tech news.

ROBIN Eley's new body of work examines the isolation of the Facebook generation.

Hinter Lady Gaga steht ein unauffälliger Mann, der die neuen Medien früh zu nutzen wusste: Troy Carter. Auf Twitter und Facebook folgen heute Millionen dem Superstar.

Google and Facebook have removed content from some Indian domain websites following a court directive warning them of a crackdown "like China" if they did not take steps to protect religious sensibilities.

Facebook and Google tell a court in India they have complied with an order to remove "objectionable" material, amid ongoing legal moves on censorship.

Les détails de l'introduction en bourse du réseau social ne sont pas connues. Mais certains gérants marquent déjà leur intérêt. Le point de vue de Sylvie Sejournet, gérante chez Pictet.

Unemployment is falling in the US, where wealth-creators are applauded, rather than denounced, writes Boris Johnson.

Top three picks of our ad panel all featured canines. Now you can pick the winner of the USA TODAY Facebook Super Bowl Ad Meter.

If private, unregulated markets can provide ample liquidity to grow a business the size of Facebook’s, it’s worth asking what the future role for public stock markets is going to be.

The social network puts engineers, not HR, in charge of a global search for young programmers.

MOST clients of independent broker-dealers and investment advisers will be lucky to get a few crumbs at the table of Facebook's IPO.

Facebook will likely provide an unintended boost for Israeli Internet start-ups.

Facebook n'a peut-être pas été inventé pour devenir une entreprise, comme l'assure son fondateur, Mark Zuckerberg, dans un étrange évangile publié la semaine dernière. Mais heureusement pour les banquiers d'affaires et les fonds de capital-risque, le réseau social qui s'est popularisé auprès de...Articles en rapportUniqa. L'assureur autrichien coté a accusé une perte nette...La Bourse de Tokyo ...

There is a basic rule in the stock market: when valuations run far ahead of current revenues, hope is packaged as hype. That is the situation Facebook is in after it filed for an initial public offering (IPO) of shares last week.

Bono’s stake in Facebook is about to make him the richest rock star on the planet when the company floats on the stock exchange.

Der Internetkonzern geht an die Börse - und wird so transparent wie nie. Jetzt zeigt sich, wer Mark Zuckerbergs beste Freunde sind und was seine Charterflüge kosten. 13 überraschende Fakten aus dem Börsenprospekt.

Facebook wird zur modernen Chronik eines jeden Menschen. Das Vergessen wird gebannt. Wer das als Fortschritt empfindet, sollte einmal die Einträge seiner „Freunde“ studieren.

LAHORE – Speakers at the “Round Table Conference on Blasphemy by Facebook and Role of Muslim Youth”, held at the Hamdard Centre on Saturday, stressed that social media should be boycotted in the country for promoting activities that hurt Muslim sentiments. At the conference which was held under the aegis of the Millat Facebook (MFB), participants voiced their views about the ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook's billionaire CEO Mark Zuckerberg calls himself a "hacker"....

As Facebook users go back to work, they'll have less time to update their pages and peer at those of others. On the plus side, the company's $5 billion IPO has monetary policy at its back.

Investors thinking about Facebook should consider a mathematical riddle that shows how growth stocks can get overvalued so easily.

El currículum profesional y de actividades formativas de Teófilo Amores daría para llenar muchos folios, pero en sus últimos capítulos, además de esas más de tres décadas que lleva ligado a la Cámara de Comercio cacereña, destacan su conversión en diácono permanente, una responsabilidad que desempeña en la parroquia de San Blas de Cáceres y con la que desarrolla esa labor de apostolado, de comp...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Director Zalman King, best known for erotic film "9 1/2 Weeks" and television series "Red Shoe Diaries," died on Friday in Santa Monica, Calif., after a long battle with cancer. He was 69. "Zalman was an extraordinary man and artist, more complex and humane than those who knew him only from afar could possibly imagine," said Allison Burnett, King's son-in-law. Actor Char...

Finally. It's the day we've been waiting for—new Snow White and the Huntsman photos have popped up on the movie's official Facebook page and we get a close-up look at Snow White...

Black Sabbath have responded to drummer Bill Ward's open letter pledging to leave the band unless he is presented with a "signable contract" In a statement on Facebook Ozzy Osbourne Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler indicated they they will carry on with their new album and reunion tour without him...

Das geht ja gut los! Ferrari hat den neuen Rennwagen für die Saison 2012 vorgestellt. Doch der F2012 sorgt bei den Formel 1-Fans auf Facebook für Hohn und Spott.Foto: AFP/FERRARI PRESS OFFICEMehr zum Thema3 Wochen Pause - Derdiyok verletzt sich am Zahnputz-GlasMobile World Congress - Samsung Galaxy S3 wird verschobenÜber 800 Millionen gucken am TV zu - Super Bowl macht Mega-Star Madonna nervös...

Auch der Börsengang ändert nichts an der Unbeliebtheit der Marke Facebook, gerade die Timeline wirkt sich negativ aus.

Berlin (dpa) - Datenschützer befürchten, dass mit dem baldigen Börsengang von Facebook die Privatsphäre der Nutzer leidet. «Es steht zu befürchten, dass der Fokus in Zukunft auf Gewinnmaximierung ger...

Facebook a déposé mercredi le dossier de ce qui s’annonce comme la plus grosse introduction en Bourse jamais réalisée par la net-économie. Jean...lire la suite

Facebook's planned IPO is likely to give impetus to China's social networking service (SNS) and boost its development, industry insiders say.

Utl.: BZÖ für Änderung des ORF-Gesetzes = Wien (OTS) - "Das Social Media Verbot für den ORF durch die Medienbehörde ist lächerlich. Hier gilt es jetzt, das ORF-Gesetz schnellstmöglich zu ändern. Ein Verbot für den öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk auf sozialen Plattformen wie facebook ...

Le respect des données privées des internautes est le talon d'Achille de Facebook,Articles en rapportLe musée Toulouse-Lautrec d´Albi, transformé, rouvrira ses portes en avrilDrame du football : heurts au Caire, le pouvoir mis en causeLE MONDE À L´ENVERS« Vous avez une part de responsabilité, nous aussi »LE VISAGE

AS Facebook readies for Wall Street's richest high-tech debut, it is wrangling with litigation and bracing for potential new suits.

Facebook is friending the feds. The company has put political veterans in key executive roles and board positions. It’s also quickly built up a powerhouse Washington lobbying operation and established a political action committee to make it easy for employees to donate to candidates. Read full article >>

After a day of comments from readers via e-mail, Twitter and Facebook, questions still remain about cluster bombs in Libya. Who made the dual purpose improved conventional munition bombs, when and where?

India is Facebook’s second largest user base in the world with some 43 million users, edging past Indonesia this week, and whizzing past Brazil , Mexico, and UK in past year.

Social-networking giant Facebook filed for an initial public offering on Wednesday - and the odds are the stock will find itself a lot of friends.

Las acciones de la empresa se dispararon en Wall Street luego de que la red social mostrará que el creador de videojuegos online generó el 12% de sus ingresos el año pasado

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A Wisconsin woman has been charged with theft over accusations she tried to profit from Facebook's much-anticipated plans to go public by selling fake stock in the social media giant, a criminal complaint showed on Thursday.

De los pasillos de la Universidad de Harvard a las puertas de Wall Street en apenas ocho años. A la historia de Facebook solo le falta haber nacido en un garaje para convertir a su fundador Mark Zuckerberg en la personificación del sueño americano. La red social comenzó el pasado miércoles las maniobras para su lanzamiento en Bolsa, en una operación con la que pretende recaudar 3.800 millones d...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Facebook's long-awaited IPO filing lifted the stocks of many Internet companies, including recent laggards Zynga and Groupon. But analysts said the halo effect may fade, because some companies basking in Facebook's glow just aren't as financially sound as the world's largest social network....

Mark Zuckerberg and 1,000 of his closest friends will become instant millionaires (and beyond) when Facebook goes public in May.

Two Premier League strikers have been subjected to racist abuse on social network sites. Djibril Cisse was apparently targeted on Twitter and police are investigating reports that Newcastle's Shola Ameobi was vilified on Facebook.

Journalist-turned-politician makes extensive use of Facebook to spread his views, answering questions from non-reporters.

The Delhi High Court will continue on Feb. 14 its hearings on petitions by Google and Facebook to quash criminal proceedings against them in a Web censorship case.

L'euphorie suscitée par l'introduction prochaine en bourse de Facebook me conduit à tenir à nouveau des propos politiquement incorrects. Quelqun a-t-il remarqué que l'Amérique capitaliste et inégalitaire continue d'innover, de créer de la richesse et des emplois ? Comment s'appelle...

Selon le dossier déposé par le réseau social Facebook auprès de la SEC, la Security Exchange Commission qui contrôle les opérations boursières aux…

Le géant des réseaux sociaux Facebook a clairement indiqué qu'il avait Google en ligne de mire, et les quelques années qui viennent s'annoncent déterminantes pour couronner le roi d'internet.histoires liéesWall Street en légère hausse dans l´attente d´un rapport sur l´emploiGrèce: les négociations sur la dette sont "difficiles" et pourraient durerEtats-Unis: "priorité absolue" à l´assainissemen...

Facebook has revealed many of the facts behind all the pokes, likes and friends for the first time. What have we learned?

Certes, l'entrée en Bourse de Facebook, qui devrait avoir lieu dans trois...

Wie viel Gewinn macht Facebook? Wie viele Nutzer hat Facebook tatsächlich? Und lohnt es sich, die Aktien zu kaufen? FOCUS Online beantwortet die wichtigsten Fragen rund um den Börsengang des sozialen Netzwerks.

Social networking giant Facebook has lodged documents for a public floatation which will raise at least $5 billion for the Californian company.

Facebook hat seinen Börsenprospekt veröffentlicht und damit den ersten Schritt an die Börse unternommen. Das Emissionsvolumen ist vergleichsweise bescheiden, das Umsatzwachstum rasant. Doch die Zahlen wecken Zweifel an einer Bewertung von bis zu 100 Milliarden Dollar.

Rami Samara, who works for the PA’s official news agency Wafa, and the privately owned Ajyal radio station detained for Facebook post.

Imitation is the best form of flattery, and, financially speaking, Facebook looks a dead ringer for the young Google.

Facebook needs to be assessed differently, if no less cautiously, than the internet IPOs that have gone before it

The world's largest social network is profitable but fears Google and Apple.

A MAN who boasted about killing his daughter on Facebook before stabbing her has been refused leave to appeal his sentence.

If offering of stock makes enough friends on Wall Street, site will probably make its market debut in 3 to 4 months.

The world's most used website goes public

Facebook geht an die Börse. Das weltgrößte soziale Netzwerk teilte nach Börsenschluss in New York mit, damit bis zu fünf Milliarden Dollar einnehmen zu wollen. Derzeit zählt Facebook nach eigenen Angaben 845 Millionen aktive Nutzer. Einen Termin für den eigentlichen Börsengang gibt es noch nicht.

New research shows why we can’t resist a tweet: Twitter and Facebook may be as addictive as cigarettes and alcohol

Facebook reicht Börsenprospekt ein – 1 Milliarde Nettogewinn

Mark Zuckerberg is officially updating Facebook Inc.’s status from 'private' to 'public' in one of the most eagerly anticipated events in Silicon Valley history

As widely expected, Facebook just filed an IPO prospectus with the Securities & Exchange Commission to raise $5 billion, as widely expected, in an initial public offering of shares, under the ticker “FB,” with Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, and Goldman Sachs as lead underwriters. You can read the full prospectus here, if you can get [...]

The $100 billion Facebook juggernaut is going public. But remember Friendster and LiveJournal? They never died. They just fled overseas.

Das Netzwerk ist nicht nur Plattform zum Meinungsaustausch, es trainiert unterdrückten Völkern einen freien Willen an. In Russland geht eine junge Generation gegen Putin auf die Straße - weil sie im Internet gelernt hat, eine Haltung einzunehmen.

Morgan Stanley (MS) will lead the initial public offering for Facebook, which is expected to file plans to go public today, four sources told Bloomberg. Other banks, including Goldman Sachs (GS) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Bank of America (BAC) will also get a piece of the pie, but it appears that MS will get [...]

La red social quiere empezar a cotizar bajo el símbolo de "FB" y el banco que llevará su proceso de llegada a la bolsa de Nueva York será Morgan Stanley

Immer mehr Menschen nutzen die sozialen Medien. Auch Anleger setzen bei ihren Investitionsentscheidungen verstärkt auf Facebook, Twitter und Blogs. Viele Unternehmen und Banken kommunizieren aber noch recht zaghaft auf den Web 2.0-Kanälen. Immerhin: Es tut sich was.

Facebook's highly anticipated filing for its initial public stock offering will come today, news organizations are reporting this morning.

Lecciones para un Beso podrá rentarse en alta definición a través de la red social

Big shout out and congrats to Lana Del Rey, Rob Grant,  and the entire Grant family as “Born To Die”, Lana Del Rey album was released today and is currently number 1 and 2 on the iTunes US album chart. The Deluxe version with bonus material is number 1 on iTunes and the regular album is #2. According to Lana’s Facebook page the album is  “#1 in 11 countries”. Lana has over 500,000 fans on Faceb...

Nasa has launched its first Facebook game - Space Race Blastoff.

A grammar school boy expelled over claims of sex in a store room has had the decision overturned after the allegations were blamed on a Facebook smear campaign.

Positive and negative emotions spread on social network

Researchers mapped out the relationships among a remote group of hunter-gatherers in Tanzania who live as humans did about 10,000 years ago and found that their social networks are very much like ours, even though they don't have Facebook or cell phones. ...

THE SPOTLIGHT is rarely off Facebook, but reports that the social-networking company is planning an initial public offering (IPO) in May have started a serious conversation about how much Facebook is worth and how much it can raise with its stock market flotation.

Facebook could file as early as next week papers for its much-anticipated initial public offering, which will value the social networking site at up to $100 billion.

Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday came out in support of internet giants like Google and Facebook saying it’s impossible to censor everything on the web.

Am Mittwoch könnte das Unternehmen konkrete Schritte in Richtung Börse machen. Facebook soll dann höher bewertet werden als die Dax-Konzerne Siemens, Volkswagen oder BASF

(Reuters) - Facebook plans to file documents as early as Wednesday for a highly anticipated IPO that will value the world's largest social network at between $75 billion and $100 billion, the Wall...

El anticipado estreno bursátil de Facebook podría estar a punto de consumarse, si se confirman las rumores que durante toda la semana circulan por Wall Street sobre la operación. Ahora The Wall Street Journal adelanta que la red social de Mark Zuckerberg tiene intención de entregar la primera solicitud formal ante el regulador bursátil el miércoles de la próxima semana.

The Bavarians revealed on their website that they would announce the arrival of a new forward on Thursday but they did nothing more than launch a Facebook application.

Facebook has "an 800 million-strong Neighbourhood Watch system" to protect against people carrying out malicious acts, the Leveson Inquiry hears.

La investigación de la Universidad de California en San Diego analiza si Twitter, Facebook y otras redes sociales son producto del hombre moderno o surgieron por la necesidad de los antepasados de enfrentar sus condiciones

Einem Polizisten im italienischen Treviso ist es zu verdanken, dass eine der größten Bankraubserien der vergangenen Jahre beendet werden konnte. Zum Verhängnis wurde den Räubern, dass sie bei ihren Coups in Österreich stets unmaskiert auftraten und sich zudem via Facebook präsentierten. "Der Kollege hat den mutmaßlichen Haupttäter auf einem von uns ausgesendetem Foto identifiziert", berichtete ...

FACEBOOK will force users to add its timeline function to their account within a matter of weeks.

ThunderBug, the mascot for the Tampa Bay Lightning, was fired after a fan was upset for being sprayed with Silly String.

Von Facebook hatten unsere steinzeitlichen Vorfahren noch nicht die geringste Ahnung. Sie lebten jedoch ebenfalls in sozialen, wenn auch weniger virtuellen Netzwerken. Forschern zufolge war deren Struktur den heutigen ganz ähnlich. Die menschliche Kooperationsfähigkeit könnte darin ihre Wurzeln haben.

Atlantic Canadians will be among the first to access Facebook from Internet connected televisions with free software

by polash ghosh When we come across the phrase “The Social Network”, then the first thing which comes to our mind is Facebook, that's because of two reasons. First being that FB is the marketing leader in social networking and secondly the movie  “The Social Network” which is based on the life of the founder of FB Mark Zuckerberg.Social networking is a private internet within the internet wh...

MOSCOW, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Russia's biggest social network Vkontakte.ru may sell a small stake ahead of an initial public offering in 2012 or 2013, its co-founder told the website Gazeta.ru, as it...

Facebook rolls out five new travel-sharing apps on its timeline. USA TODAY reviews the TripAdvisor and Gogobot apps.

Bruins goaltender posted a statement to his Facebook page explaining reason for snubbing President Barack Obama

OAK LAWN, Ill. (AP) -- Gail Glaenzer still can't believe that her fiance unknowingly shot a nail into his skull, let alone that he posted a picture of the X-ray on Facebook during his ambulance ride between hospitals for surgery....

ROONEY launches first post on new Facebook page - a pic of himself gaming on home sofa

Rebondissement dans le concours auquel participe le lycée des Flandres d'Hazebrouck pour recevoir le chanteur Charlie Winston en concert dans sa cantine. Virgin Radio, organisateur de la compétition, en a modifié le règlement.histoires liéesContrôles sur l´autoroute entre Lille et Dunkerque ce matin: 180 infractions relevées

An Indonesian civil servant who posted a Facebook message asserting that God did not exist was taken into protective custody after being badly beaten by a mob, some of them his colleagues.

MANCHESTER United striker Wayne Rooney is launching his official Facebook page

El juez de la Audiencia Nacional Ismael Moreno ordenó el pasado 12 de enero la excarcelación de Jon Rosales, el presunto miembro de ETA conocido por haber colgado, días antes de ser detenido, en Facebook una foto suya vistiendo la camiseta de la selección española, acompañado de varios amigos. El presunto terrorista, hasta entonces preso en la prisión madrileña de Alcalá Meco, quedó en libertad...

The site can now provide summaries and stats that offer a window on your life months or years in the past.

Five major ticket sellers, including StubHub, Eventbrite and TicketFly, have launched an online store hoping to tap into the social network's 800 million users.Five major ticket sellers, including StubHub, Eventbrite and TicketFly, have launched an online store hoping to tap into the social network's 800 million users.

Young people are expressing their affection by swapping passwords to e-mail, Facebook and other accounts.

Die Premier League-Klubs bei Facebook und Twitter: Wer hat eigentlich die meisten Fans? Überraschung: Ein Klub twittert gar nicht.Foto: Witters

An Indian court has told Google and Facebook to have a better check system that will eliminate "offensive and objectionable" content, or face banning.

L’armée belge contrôle les profils Facebook, les messages postés sur les comptes Twitter et les blogs des militaires qui sont en mission à l’étranger. ...lire la suite

LE JEU VIDÉO - Dernier-né des jeux sociaux pour Facebook de l'éditeur Zynga, Hidden Chronicles invite les joueurs et leurs amis à une chasse amusante aux objets dissimulés.

Online movement started before Christmas on Facebook by two friends living on opposite coasts of the U.S.

Vincent Kompany a exprimé, dans un message posté sur sa page Facebook, son inquiétude quant à l’évolution de l’arbitrage en Angleterre. Selon lui, une trop grande ...lire la suite

Man City defender says English football's reputation at risk if players not allowed to make hard challenges.

Richard Dorment reviews an installation made of video diaries taken from YouTube and Facebook.

A Bangladeshi court today directed the authorities to prosecute a university lecturer for sedition for wishing death to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Facebook, a media report said today.

Fußball, Ski- und Motorsport, Tennis & Co. - die ganze Welt des Sports wartet auf krone.at/sport auf dich. Jetzt kannst du dir die neuesten Sport-Schlagzeilen ab sofort auch direkt auf deine Facebook-Seite holen, um deine Lieblingsstorys zu kommentieren und mit Freunden zu teilen.

Coco Rocha has a fan base of more than 200,000 Twitter followers and 66,000 Facebook friends (plus Tumbler, Google Plus and Instagram accounts.

Die Organisatoren der Olympischen Spiele in London schulen die 70.000 freiwilligen Helfer im Umgang mit Facebook und Co.

The pop star shows off her rock from Jason Trawick in a new photo on Facebook

"Energie tanken in den österreichischen Bergen" - Faymann zeigt Privatfotos auf Facebook

Subió una foto a su 'Facebook' en la que apareció junto al crack brasileño. La frase que acompañaba a la imagen no deja lugar a dudas: "Se queda con nosotros".

Scoop ? Iker Casillas, le capitaine du Real Madrid, a livré lundi sur son compte Facebook une information sur Kaka qui...

SEATTLE (AP) -- Here's another reason for holdouts to join the social media site Facebook: It's a great place to find a kidney....

Racing - Punchestown report:Willie Mullins is likely to step Mikael d’Haguenetback up in class after the 2-5 favourite duly disposed of his three rivals in the Follow Punchestown On Facebook Hurdle.

The devastated father of a student murdered on December 26th found out about his son’s murder on Facebook.

The NASCAR Sprint cup driver, on his Facebook page, has apologized for a series of tweets that strirred instant social-media reaction.

Rendez-vous à 15h30 précises pour le premier de nos trois quiz dédié au sport en 2011 qui vont conclure l'année sur notre site. Connectez-vous à notre console via facebook ou twitter et répondez à des questions "stats" : des aces, des chronos, des scores, il y aura de quoi se creuser les méninges.

THE Facebook generation is taking the national future into its own hands.

Vielleicht ist es der Umstand, dass bald wieder ein Jahr vorbei ist, der mich "altmodisch" fühlen lässt. Vielleicht bin ich wirklich schon, im sozialen Sinn, alt. Vielleicht ist es auch nur mein kutureller Hintergrund, der mir eine andere Grundvorstellung von sozialen Beziehungen mitgegeben hat. Was immer es ist: Als ich das Paper über Social selection and peer influence in an online social net...

¿Por fin ha madurado Google? El cuidado con el que ha manejado la tecnología del reconocimiento facial parece sustentar esa tesis. Compárenlo con Facebook. Cuando el pasado junio la red social de Zuckerberg desveló su tecnología del reconocimiento facial se vio envuelta en una violenta reacción de la privacidad universal. Pero Google ha evitado esa fatalidad: hace pocas semanas hizo pública una...

At EmTech 2010 The founder of Tumblr discusses short-form blogging and how his site competes with Facebook and Twitter.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Singer Michael Buble is taking his "Christmas" spirit into the virtual realm, collaborating with popular Facebook game "CityVille" and giving an interactive gift to his fans over the holidays.

David Fincher has a lot of nerve for a Hollywood director. The 49-year-old proved his gumption with a remarkably compelling film study of single-minded Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in last year’s The Social Network.

For its final Facebook live chat of the week (and the year), The Choice blog invites juniors, in particular, to submit their questions about the admissions process, and to tune in tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern time for answers.

A petition page has been launched on Facebook following accusations that retail giant Woolworths "stole" a range of soda flavour names and packaging from a small business.

Rock icon Jon Bon Jovi hasn't gone down in a blaze of glory, despite social media rumors saying he had died.

Lady Gaga fans are tricked into following a harmful link after the singer is hit by a targeted attack on Twitter and Facebook.

Der größte Börsengang eines amerikanischen Internet-Unternehmens seit Google ist für Investoren vom Start weg erst einmal zum Reinfall geworden. Zyngas vermasseltes Börsendebüt könnte Folgen für Facebook haben.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Magic center Dwight Howard has made it a point to avoid social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook as talk continued to swirl this week about his request to be traded to another team.

Nom de code : #TrollingObama. Mission : inonder la page Facebook de Barack...

Travelling alone on an aircraft can be a lottery. But now the Dutch airline, KLM, is offering passengers the chance to pick who they sit next to by using Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.

Headline Title:  Egypt urged to release blogger sentenced by military court 14 December 2011 Egypt’s military rulers are continuing their patterns of abuse, Amnesty International said today, after a military court confirmed the imprisonment of a prominent blogger upon his mili...

The Dutch airline is set to offer passengers the chance to look at each other's Facebook and Linkedin profiles to help them choose who they would like to sit next to on their flight.

RIHANNA, Bob Marley, Avril Lavigne and Lady Gaga are among the most 'liked' and 'listened to' artists by Facebook users in 2011. See the list.

Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has bought Facebook ads trying to, in effect, outflank from the right the Republican candidates on the issue of Israel.The ads are pegged to the pledge made last month by Rick Perry, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich to start foreign aid for all countries at zero and then have an annual discussion about how much to give. The ad on Facebook features text that rea...

La reacción del presidente ruso Dmitri Medvédev a las multitudinarias movilizaciones llevadas a cabo el sábado en un centenar de localidades de todo el país en protesta por el pucherazo electoral -y en las que también se pidió a gritos la salida de Vladímir Putin- no era precisamente lo que la población esperaba en una situación que muchos califican ya de «grave crisis política». Medvédev escri...

Amnesty International has unveiled an impressive four-CD compilation of Bob Dylan songs which will be available for streaming beginning today December 10th for a 24-hour period to anybody who “likes” the esteemed human rights organization on Facebook The set entitled Chimes of Freedom will be released on January 24th in...

Laufend gibt es bei den Sozialen Netzwerke neue Features - nun haben Facebook, Twitter und Google+ binnen weniger Tage ihre Services aufgemotzt. Am augenscheinlichsten sind die Änderungen beim Kurznachrichtendienst Twitter, das nun Nutzer und Werber stärker für sich gewinnen möchte. Die einzelnen Services werden sich mittlerweile immer ähnlicher.

Renaissance Capital's Kathleen Shelton Smith talked about the market for coming new issues including Facebook.

Essen (ots) - Die Feuerwehr genießt hierzulande allerhöchstes Ansehen, vor allem die freiwillige. Wenn Mitglieder dann in einem sozialen Netzwerk wie Facebook dazu aufrufen, es bei der Rettung von Türken extra langsam gehen zu lassen, ist das ein Schlag ins Gesicht ihrer Kollegen. Der ...

India has threatened to take action against internet groups including Facebook, Google and Twitter for refusing to remove material deemed inflammatory

NEW YORK (AP) -- As they peruse the Internet, voters in New Hampshire and Iowa are probably seeing ads for Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama alongside those for shoes and holiday gifts. The ads will then follow those voters around the Web, popping up on news sites, Google searches and on social networking sites like Facebook....

Aston Villa trialist Yannick Djalo may be looking to impress at the club, but he has already made a mistake in the eyes of manager Alex McLeish - by announcing the deal on Facebook.

LAHORE – While terming President Asif Ali Zardari “the root cause of every problem in the country”, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif launched yet another attack on the former -- this time on the Facebook. The CM said it is hard to expect solution to the problems from President Zardari as he himself is the root cause of the same problems and the whole nation has risen up in protest and taken to str...

The United Nations has launched a social media campaign to encourage people to get involved in the global human rights movement, inspired by the role played by tools such as Facebook and Twitter in the awakening that transformed parts of the Arab world this year.

Facebook Inc is considering raising about $10 billion in an initial public offering that would value the world's largest social-networking site at more than $100 billion, a person with knowledge of the matter said.

Nov 28 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc is looking to go public between April and June 2012 with a valuation of over $100 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

CAIRO (AFP) - Egyptian activists called on Saturday for a million-person march on the eve of landmark polls as Egypt's military leader reached out to key opposition figures amid a deepening political rift.The Revolution Youth Coalition, formed during the uprising that drove Hosni Mubarak from power in February, called on its Facebook page for mass protests in Tahrir Square and across Egypt on S...

Le Conseil suprême des Forces Armées a publié aujourd'hui sur sa page facebook un communiqué dans lequel il présente ses regrets et ses excuses pour…

RACING:NEW PHASE upset smart chasers Psycho and Kempes over the smaller obstacles to complete back-to-back victories in the Follow Us On Facebook Hurdle at Cork yesterday.

Yashraj Vakil, COO, Red Digital, does a quick comparison between Google+ brand pages and Facebook fan pages and lists the points where both score over the other…

Salman Rushdie's fight over which name he is allowed to use on Facebook points to an increasingly vital debate.

Mädchenschwarm Justin Bieber löst weltweit Gekreische aus, das seinesgleichen sucht. Im FOCUS-Interview spricht der 17-jährige Bambi-Preisträger über seine Liebe zu Facebook und Twitter - und den Truthahn seiner Oma.

We solicited readers’ nominations for the most annoying earworms yesterday via Facebook. We winnowed the list and now are presenting the poll below to ask readers to vote for the worst, most tiresome earworm plaguing us, thanks to supermarket music, radio and TV jingles, waiting room speakers and so on. Vote now to see the [...]

Unter dem Motto "Back dir deinen Traumprinzen" dürfen Fans bei Facebook eine neue Prinzenrolle kreieren. Crowdsourcing heißt der Trend, doch solche Aktionen können auch nach hinten losgehen.

Für Facebook-Nutzer gibt es zwei Wege, an ihre Daten zu gelangen. Beide führen zu unterschiedlichen Ergebnissen. Und keiner zu vollständigen Angaben, sagen Kritiker.

The changes would require non-E.U. companies like Google and Facebook to abide by Europe's stricter rules on data collection or face fines and prosecution.

FACEBOOK is in no hurry to go public or to get into China, where it is officially blocked, according to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the social networking giant.

Rafael Nadal a indiqué sur son compte Facebook qu'il ne participerait pas au Masters 1000 de Paris-Bercy la semaine prochaine. L'Espagnol, N.2 mondial, souhaite se préserver pour la Masters Cup, dernier événement majeur de la saison qui se déroulera à Londres à partir du 20 novembre.

Researchers warn of a social networking bubble in the offing

Facebook hat den renommierten Filesharing-Dienst Drop.io übernommen. Als erste Maßnahme der neuen Eigner wurde die Schließung des Dienstes angekündigt. Mark Zuckerberg kennt den Drop.io-Gründer von der Universität. (RSS, Soziales Netz)

The move comes after the fan page for Massimo Tartaglia, the man who is accused of hitting Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, amassed almost 100,000 users in less than 48 hours.

David Sasaki, of the Global Voices fame, recently challenged me to write at least one positive post or essay for evern ten that are negative. I can't yet live up to that challenge but I am eager to try bit by bit. There is an interesting (and somewhat too upbeat for my taste) story in the Jakarta Globe today on how the Indonesian civil society has been mobilized to get two senior members of the...

By Yi-Wyn Yen Microsoft is trying its luck at social networking - again. After a failed attempt four years ago, Microsoft (MSFT) is ripping a page from Facebook's playbook, introducing on Thursday new profile and photo-sharing features to its web-based Windows Live services. The software giant allows users with Windows Live Hotmail or Messenger accounts to create online profiles that highlight ...