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Facebook Inc has introduced a visually richer, mobile device-oriented "newsfeed", in the most significant changes to date for the social network's most recognizable feature.

Just a week on the job and the Dunedin police Facebook page may have achieved its first success.

Investors are likely to regard the launch of Facebook's Graph Search as ''too little progress'' in the highly lucrative market of web search, Greenlight chief operating officer Andreas Pouros says.

Facebook Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg has unveiled a feature to help its billion-plus users search for people and places within the social network, in the company's first major product launch event since its May initial public offering.

More than half of New Zealand's Facebook population are fans of the All Blacks page - far exceeding the popularity of any other New Zealand brand.

The only real peace comes when you log out of Facebook, writes Eleanor Ainge Roy.

Social media company Facebook Inc reports it reached the 1 billion user mark last month, while chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said it would keep pursuing growth through mobile devices.

Facebook has an ugly little secret, a number disclosed nowhere in its voluminous filings to become a public company and now only vaguely addressed by corporate officials.

A 15-year-old Dutch boy has been sentenced to a year in juvenile detention for stabbing to death a girl whose Facebook posts reportedly led to a contract for her killing.

Facebook will allow users in Britain to wager real money on its service, opening its doors to gambling for the first time as revenue growth slows at the world's No. 1 social network.