Google's director of Social Media is set to leave the Californian based internet giant for a strategic career move into the Facebook HQ. The prospect of Facebook's growth, combined with a potential float of the company in coming years - has made a number of other Googlers also make the move. Sheryl Sandberg also made the move over to Facebook in the past few months as...
Read MoreYahoo! has announced it will be joining the OpenSocial alliance created by Google to further the development of open source applications for social media and the internet.
The idea is to get more people working on ‘widgets’ for platforms such as Facebook in order to utilise the 500 Million + member reach.
Facebook have announced that they will be introducing new privacy controls that will give users the ability to preserve social distinctions between friends, co-workers and family.
Mark Zuckerber, the 23 year old chief executive of the worlds largest social networking site, Facebook, has recently hired Sheryl Sandberg, a top performing executive at Google.
It is reported that Facebook is approaching big record companies about creating a music service that would live within the Facebook platform, similar to that of what MySpace is rumoured to be looking into. Moving into online media distribution would create a rather large competitor to that of iTunes as the Facebook platform continues to grow its members numbers. All record companies involved (EMI, Universal, Sony BMG...
Read MoreAccording to Forbes magazine in their annual super rich list, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg is the world’s youngest billionaire and is believed to be the youngest self-made billionaire of all time.
The makers of Scrabble, one of the worlds most highest selling board games, has asked Facebook to remove an online app entitled ‘Scrabulous’ due to infringing upon Mattel’s copyright.
Amongst a swarm of articles regarding the privacy issues of social networking sites and new advertising models, 17 people, as well as a Canadian company that owns a portfolio of adult sites are being sued by Facebook for attempting to mine user-details off members profiles on the popular social networking site. The claim is that servers under the control of the Canadian company were used...
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