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- By Liat Clark
- 30 October 2012
Hacktivist group Anonymous has announced it will take down Facebook and release Zynga's games for free download on 5 November if the latter does not backtrack on alleged plans to lay off 1,000 employees and outsource work »
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- By David Kravets
- 29 October 2012
Paul Ceglia, who claims to own half of Facebook, was arrested at his rural New York home Friday and charged with a multi-billion-dollar scheme to defraud the social-networking site and its chief executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg »
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- By Ian Steadman
- 24 October 2012
Zynga yesterday announced that it would be laying off five percent of its workforce, closing its Boston office, slimming down its Austin office, and possible shutting down its British and Japanese offices »
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- By Olivia Solon
- 21 October 2012
Joanna Shields, Facebook's vice president and managing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa is to leave the social network to take on the role of chief executive of Tech City Investment Organisation »
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- By Liat Clark
- 17 October 2012
In the future social networks will be everywhere, supported my mobile and micro payments and morphing into a system of fragmented niches, said a panel of speakers at Web Summit in Dublin »
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- By Hugh Langley
- 11 October 2012
A designer has created an offline social networking experience which uses Facebook conventions -- such as check-ins, likes, status updates and comments -- to encourage meatspace interaction »
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- By Ryan Singel
- 05 October 2012
Those looking to artificially inflate their Facebook stats to impress people or drive sales can simply send a raft of private messages that include a link to a page »
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- By Ian Steadman
- 04 October 2012
Mark Zuckerberg's site today broke the one billion active users a month barrier, marking the fact that 14 per cent of the world's population are now members of the social network »
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- By Liat Clark
- 02 October 2012
Facebook is defying Australian law enforcers and refusing to take down a "hate" page that attacks an accused murderer and rapist »
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- By Wired.co.uk Staff
- 01 October 2012
Today, we're watching author Andrew Keen's talk, in which he said we shouldn't be corrupted by the kind of narcissism and stupidity that social media is promoting »
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- By Ryan Tate
- 28 September 2012
Citing its unique ability to recommend products, Facebook has opened an online gift store »
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- By Max Tatton-Brown
- 25 September 2012
Users' fear private messages now showing on Timeline, Facebook refutes claims with research »
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- By Liat Clark
- 21 September 2012
The Irish Data Protection Commission has said it is largely satisfied with the changes Facebook has made to comply with its recommendations, including its removal of the facial recognition tagging system »
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- By Ryan Tate
- 21 September 2012
If you want to know why technology executives aren’t video stars, look no further than these eight founders -- plus one founder’s dog »
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- By Robert McMillan
- 19 September 2012
The virtually unknown company PersonalWeb Technologies has launched a series of patent infringement suits against some of the internet's most important companies, including Facebook, Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft, and IBM »
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- By David Axe
- 10 September 2012
Australian troops are at risk of unwittingly befriending Taliban soldiers on Facebook »
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- By Max Tatton-Brown
- 04 September 2012
Wolfram Alpha, the search engine that specialises in results based on linked data, has launched a service that provides personal analytics related to your Facebook activity »
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- By Ian Steadman
- 03 September 2012
It's not uncommon to hear talk of a "digital divide", where two groups in society have different and unequal access to the web and digital devices »
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- By Andy Robertson
- 03 September 2012
The question of what happens to your data when you die is a difficult one, but perhaps one that we should address in our wills »