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/ 6 September 2011
If Avusa’s woes teach us anything, it’s that readers are more stringent than a watchdog could ever be, says <b>Verashni Pillay</b>.
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/ 4 September 2011
The boy in a Facebook picture lying apparently lifeless while a white man stands over his body with a rifle is alive, the <i>City Press</i> says.
Ray Hartley’s explanation about the <i>Sunday Times</i>’s controversial front page has left users on local social networks as skeptical as ever.
Police say a racial connection should not be made to the Facebook picture showing a man posing with a rifle over an apparently lifeless body of child.
Two men who posted messages on Facebook inciting other people to riot in their home towns have been sentenced to four years each in prison.
How secure is your password for email and various social networks? Not very, which is why Google, Hotmail and Facebook have implemented a new system.
Facebook won a dismissal of a second lawsuit by the Olympic rowing twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.
Google may cooperate more closely with Facebook and Twitter and believes there is room for multiple social networks.
I’ve been using Google+ for a few days now and, despite being a "limited field test", it has a brilliant approach to privacy, writes Paul Jacobson.
For an industry focused on the future of information, the internet is surprisingly prone to old fashioned maladies, such as superstition.
Facebook is reportedly planning this week to team up with Skype to launch a video chat function for its millions of users.
MySpace has been sold to an online ad company for $35-million, a fraction of the $100-million its parent company was seeking for the social network.
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. For months the tech press has swirled with persistent rumours that News Corporation is selling MySpace.
The illusion that corporations like Facebook or Twitter are public utilities is not only naive, it’s positively pernicious.
The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> has suspended an intern, Ngoako Matsha, for an anti-Semitic comment posted on social media platform Facebook.
Facebook, Google and other tech giants have taken part in a global test of a new system designed to replace the dwindling pool of Internet addresses.
Facebook has expanded the availability of technology to automatically identify people in photos, renewing concerns about its privacy practices.
Everyone from Lady Gaga to McDonald’s is partnering with the hottest game online in a bid to reap an instant bumper crop of 60-million users.
Founder Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is not to thank for the Arab Spring, as business leaders prepared to lobby the G8 for more online regulation.
A Zimbabwean will go on trial next month over a Facebook post that pro-democracy protests in Egypt were worth imitating, a report has said.
Facebook has admitted it hired a public relations firm to highlight supposed flaws in Google’s privacy practices.
It’s always been a reporter’s job to follow up stories, unlikely or not — so what’s new?
When does a market go from being a "growth sector" to a bubble? As with falling in love, it’s hard to put an exact date on the event.
Facebook users’ personal information could have been accidentally leaked to third parties, in particular advertisers, Symantec said in its blog.
A charge has been laid against an ANC ward councillor candidate for purporting to already be a councillor on Facebook, the DA says.
The lack of a new blockbuster hit like 2009’s <em>Avatar</em> helped push third-quarter profits down 21%. News Corporation said on Wednesday.
God may or may not be on the internet, but Jesus certainly is, writes <b>Faranaaz Parker</b>.
The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton will be screened on an official YouTube channel with pics posted on Flickr.
President Barack Obama may face a tough audience when he brings his tax-hike-for-billionaires message to Facebook on Wednesday.
You might not think of Facebook as a direct competitor to a comparatively stately search engine, but the guys at Google certainly do.
US President Barack Obama will visit Facebook’s California headquarters on April 20 and hold a town hall forum on the economy.
Google will allow people to personally endorse search results and Web pages, a step in its efforts to increase social networking capabilities.