Newsy
| May 19, 2013
Yahoo plans to acquire the social networking site Tumblr for a cool $1.1 billion, and the deal is expected to be announced today. The bold purchase would be the largest acquisition of such a company in years, and is an attempt by Yahoo to revive i...
Newsy
| Jan 15, 2013
Facebook has launched a complex new "Graph Search" allowing users to seek out people, places, photos and interests on their social network in various combinations. Facebookers, for example, could search for favorite restaurants among school chums ...
LinkAsia
| Jan 7, 2013
LinkAsia is jumping on the "year-end list" bandwagon by asking our contributors what the top words in social media were throughout Asia in 2012. Toshi Maeda reports from Japan, Yoo Eun Lee from South Korea, Ajoy Bose from India, Nicole Sy from Chi...
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VTV4
| Jan 7, 2013
Facebook was blocked in Vietnam until 2009 due to government concern that it would become a tool of dissidents. Now, the country has the most Facebook users in Asia. But as state-run VTV4 reports, the new worry is that the social networking site i...
Democracy Now!
| Jan 7, 2013
Members of a high school football team in Steubenville, Ohio allegedly raped an underage girl and possibly urinated on her unconscious body over the course of an evening of partying in late August. The young men chronicled their actions on social ...
Newsy
| Dec 3, 2012
Psst ... wanna cash in on a fake Powerball ticket? A Facebook user identifying himself as Nolan Daniels, who may be an Arizona software engineer, posted a photoshopped picture of a fake winning Powerball ticket, and promised to give $1 million to ...
LinkAsia
| Nov 30, 2012
Last week, 21-year-old student Shaheen Dhada updated her status on Facebook, expressing frustration that Mumbai was shut down after the death of politician Bal Thackeray. Her friend Renu Srinivasan "liked" the post. Within hours, as contributor Aj...
IBTimes UK
| Oct 29, 2012
Social games developer Zynga has been targeted by the notorious hacker collective Anonymous, which is threatening an attack if the California company goes ahead with what Anonymous claims are plans to outsource as many as 800 jobs to Inida.
Newsy
| Oct 4, 2012
Social media blew up after Mitt Romney told Jim Lehrer, although he loves Big Bird, he plans to cut subsidies to PBS.
ITN News
| Sep 22, 2012
A Facebook party turned into riots as over 3,000 people descended on Haren, in northern Holland, after a girl accidentally made her party event public and the invitation went viral.
— May 26, 2012 at 08:54 am
...al-Islamiya. He’s a “moderate” because he thinks Egyptian Christians should be allowed to run for the presidency, although they shouldn’t be all...
— Oct 18, 2012 at 03:32 pm
— last Saturday at 04:00 pm
Founded in February 2004, Facebook is a social utility that helps
people communicate more efficiently with their friends, family and
coworkers. The company develops technologies that facilitate the
sharing of information through the social graph, the digital mapping of
people's real-world social connections. Anyone can sign up for Facebook
and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment.
Facebook is a part of millions of people’s lives and half of the users
return daily.
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