Privacy concerns are leading to "virtual identity suicide" with large numbers of Facebook users deleting their accounts, according to new scientific research.
Facebook Inc CEO Mark Zuckerberg has enlisted Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, Qualcomm Inc and other technology companies to help him in a project aimed at making Internet access affordable for the 5 billion people around the world who are not online.
Facebook has asked the Government for an exemption from a new spying law that could see its two million New Zealand users' messages subject to interception by the GCSB.
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.
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.
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.
Facebook Inc has agreed to pay $10 million to charity to settle a lawsuit that accused the site of violating users' rights to control the use of their own names, photographs and likenesses, according to court documents made public over the weekend.
Facebook shares would continue falling in price until investors believed they had found value in the company that could be sustained, Craigs Investment Partners broker Chris Timms said yesterday.