Students tear holes in Facebook's privacy policies

An Austrian group lobbying Facebook for better privacy controls is taking the site to task for letting users' data be published without permission.

A public Facebook

The site is expected to sell a 10% stake for as much as $10-billion but there are doubts about its value.

The $100-billion question

Facebook has finally opened its kimono and started the process of offering its shares for public trading, writes Alistair Fairweather.

Facebook seeks $5bn initial public offering on Wall Street

Facebook has filed to go public and is seeking a $5-billion initial public offering -- the largest flotation by a Wall Street-listed internet company.

Social media 101: Tweeting with Ms Thema

Notorious tweeter Nonhle Thema walks us through some of the finer points of M&G's new social media policy.

Markets agog: Will Facebook's debut outshine Google?

The world's leading social site is expected to sell off a 10% stake for up to $10-billion -- implying an overall value of $100-billion.

Tech giants join forces for anti-phishing scheme

Fifteen major tech firms have jointly designed a system to combat emails seeking to hijack passwords and other personal details.

Searching for privacy

You could almost feel sorry for Google's management team lately, writes Alistair Fairweather. Almost.

Facebook adds £2bn to UK economy

Facebook estimates that it contributes more than £2-billion a year to the UK, including the development of an almost £500-million "app economy".

Twitter, Facebook take on Google with 'Don't be evil' riposte

Twitter and Facebook have teamed up, creating 'Don't be evil' software to counter the tweaking of search results in favour of Google's social network.

Wikipedia blackout results in increased mobile visits

Visits to the mobile version of Wikipedia's website rose by more than 1-million on Wednesday after the blackout in protest of US anti-piracy bills.

Facebook eyes May for $10-billion stockmarket debut

Facebook is reportedly planning the world's biggest technology float by offering a 10% stake and valuing the company at $100-billion.

Indian court tells Google, Facebook to clean up or else

An Indian court has told Google and Facebook to have a better check system that will eliminate "offensive and objectionable" content, or face banning.

Anti-trust or anti-Google?

Google stands accused of anti-competitive behaviour, but it's not quite that simple, writes Alistair Fairweather.

Yahoo! looks to bolster numbers with more websites

Yahoo! Will ramp up the number of its websites around the world that let visitors automatically share what stories they read with Facebook friends.

Facebook takes on location-sharing market with Gowalla

Facebook has confirmed it is stepping up its assault on the potentially lucrative location-sharing market with the acquisition of Gowalla.

Is Facebook's '3.74 degrees of separation' significant?

Data sets are fun. But it doesn't mean much that a friend of your friends is buddies with an acquaintance of someone else's pal.

Facebook looking into offensive image reports

Facebook says it’s investigating reports that some members of the social network are receiving graphic images in their news feeds.

Terre'Blanche photographs taken off Facebook

Photographs of Eugene Terre'Blanche's body have been removed from a Facebook group's page after the slain right-wing leader's family intervened.

Terre'Blanche murder scene photos posted on Facebook

Close family of slain AWB leader Eugene Terre'Blanche are threatening to sue a man for posting gruesome pictures of his corpse on Facebook.

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