A new breed of photo sharing communities has made a virtue of offering less, rather than more.
Swaziland is planning a censorship law that will ban Facebook and Twitter users from criticising Africa’s last absolute monarch, King Mswati III.
In an effort to vet applicants, some companies are going beyond glancing at a person’s Facebook profile and instead asking to log in to poke around.
Online advertisers have taken note of your traits and you have become increasingly visible, partly due to Facebook.
Web 2.0 companies and social networks have become fodder for the work of Dutch artists writes <strong>Natalie Dixon</strong>.
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/ 20 February 2012
A Zimbabwe magistrate has ordered a teenager to be caned for posting a picture of a woman on Facebook with a caption that called her a prostitute
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/ 14 February 2012
India does not intend to censor online social networks such as Facebook but demands that they obey the same rules governing the press and other media.
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/ 7 February 2012
An Austrian group lobbying Facebook for better privacy controls is taking the site to task for letting users’ data be published without permission.
The site is expected to sell a 10% stake for as much as $10-billion but there are doubts about its value.
Facebook has finally opened its kimono and started the process of offering its shares for public trading, writes <b>Alistair Fairweather</b>.
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.
Notorious tweeter Nonhle Thema walks us through some of the finer points of <em>M&G</em>’s new social media policy.
Fifteen major tech firms have jointly designed a system to combat emails seeking to hijack passwords and other personal details.
You could almost feel sorry for Google’s management team lately, writes <b>Alistair Fairweather</b>. Almost.
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 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.
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/ 17 January 2012
Facebook is reportedly planning the world’s biggest technology float by offering a 10% stake and valuing the company at $100-billion.
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/ 13 January 2012
An Indian court has told Google and Facebook to have a better check system that will eliminate "offensive and objectionable" content, or face banning.
Google stands accused of anti-competitive behaviour, but it’s not quite that simple, writes <b>Alistair Fairweather</b>.
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 has confirmed it is stepping up its assault on the potentially lucrative location-sharing market with the acquisition of Gowalla.
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/ 22 November 2011
Some politicians have taken to using social media as a tool to measure social unrest, while others are using it to engage citizens and cut costs.
Facebook says it’s investigating reports that some members of the social network are receiving graphic images in their news feeds.
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.
Close family of slain AWB leader Eugene Terre’Blanche are threatening to sue a man for posting gruesome pictures of his corpse on Facebook.
SA police have arrested a man believed to be the "Facebook rapist" who kidnapped and murdered women around the country.
The ANC expressed outrage on Thursday over profanities columnist Max du Preez made on Facebook about the ruling party.
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/ 29 September 2011
Warner is to unveil a web show that will create a new genre it calls a "social series" which uses pictures and music from a viewer’s Facebook page.
The ticketing industry is in for a shock because new technology will allow artists and venues to sell tickets directly via facebook and websites.
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/ 22 September 2011
Vint Cerf says Facebook’s closed model risks it becoming a "walled garden" unconnected from other networks and websites.
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/ 8 September 2011
The former internet giant is being eaten alive by two upstarts, Google and Facebook with fickle advertisers jumping ship.
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/ 7 September 2011
Carol Bartz has been fired over the phone by Roy Bostock, ending a tumultuous tenure marked by stagnation and a rift with Chinese partner Alibaba.