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Talk about social networking gone wrong. According to the Associated Press, half a dozen middle school girls have been arrested for allegedly inviting other students through Facebook to participate in “Attack a Teacher Day.”
The students involved say i…
What a year it’s been for Facebook, the world’s largest social networking playground with over 500 million registered users. As 2010 comes to a close, Mark Zuckerberg and the rest of this troops can celebrate that Facebook is now the most visitied webs…
A senior exec at Microsoft admitted that the rowdy bunch from Redmond did actively try to scoop up mega social networking site Facebook, confirming reports that first appeared in David Kirkpatrick’s book, “The Facebook Effect,” TechCrunch reports.
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If you crunch the secondary trading numbers, Facebook is now worth a cool $50 billion, TechCrunch reports. That means the social networking site is worth more than eBay and Yahoo, and almost a fourth of Microsoft’s value.
“We successfully completed our…
Security firm Sophos is warning Facebook users about yet another app that supposedly lets you see who’s been viewing your profile. Like many before it, this one is a scam.
“As we’ve described a couple of times before, plenty of Facebook users would *lo…
Perhaps Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus can form a club for ex-Twitter users, a social networking rehab for celebrities of sorts. More than a year after Billy Ray’s baby quit the hard stuff, Lady Gaga has decided to follow suit, no doubt a crushing blow to h…
Believe it or not, Facebook is insanely close to being awarded a patent for use of the word “Face,” TechCrunch reports. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office sent the social networking outfit a Notice of Allowance, which basically means Facebook now h…
Facebook and Google don’t see eye to eye on data reciprocity. The world’s leading social network has ignored demands for third-party access to user contact information. Not only did it ignore Google’s entreaties for data reciprocity but angere…