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/ 3 October 2010

A Flickr of interest

Many people, said the web’s inventor this week, no longer make a distinction between Facebook and the web.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 24 September 2010

Zuckerberg overtakes Jobs, Murdoch on Forbes rich list

Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg overtakes Steve Jobs and News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch on the <i>Forbes</i> rich list — but Bill Gates is still number one.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 21 September 2010

Facebook fraud a ‘major issue’

Site says it is developing new ways to verify users’ identities and detect when their accounts have been hacked.

By Josh Halliday
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Analysis
/ 20 September 2010

Missing the point

Jonah Fisher, I now know how you must have felt when you got kicked out of that now-legendary press conference. Well, sort of, anyway.

By Tarryn Harbour
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Article
/ 18 September 2010

College blocks Facebook and Twitter in social experiment

Harrisburg University in Pennsylvania initiates "blackout" of all social networking sites to discover effects of multitasking.

By Staff Reporter
Nigeria president declares election bid on Facebook
Africa
/ 15 September 2010

Nigeria president declares election bid on Facebook

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday declared his intention to run in January elections on social networking site Facebook.

By Nick Tattersall and Chijioke Ohuocha
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Article
/ 12 September 2010

Facebook’s intriguing world revealed

In many respects, Suite H33 in Kirkland House, Harvard University, was just like any other student dormitory shared by four 19-year-olds.

By Elizabeth Day
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Article
/ 26 August 2010

FB faces renewed privacy unease

Facebook Places, which has launched in the US, sparks fresh privacy concerns.

By Jemima Kiss
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Article
/ 30 July 2010

Where are the new social networks?

The technology scene has echoes of the
post-dotcom exhaustion of 2002 as we wait for mobiles to catch up.

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 18 July 2010

Facebook’s breathless rise to power

Last month Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, announced that email was on the way out.

By James Harkin
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Article
/ 12 July 2010

Facebook launches panic button for child safety

Facebook has agreed to adopt a panic button aimed at improving the online safety of its younger users, a child protection group said on Monday.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 11 July 2010

A call to the people

An initiative started on Facebook hopes to pull South Africans together in search of a new vision, writes <b>Andile Mngxitama</b>

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 24 June 2010

Record traffic for websites during World Cup

Four years may not seem like a very long time, but in technology terms, they’re equivalent to several lifetimes.

By Tarryn Harbour
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Article
/ 24 June 2010

Facebook to take on Asian rivals to reach a billion users

Social networking giant Facebook is looking to Asia and Russia as it reaches for world domination, it was reported on Thursday.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 2 June 2010

The suicide squad

On May 31, more than 34 000 people around the world committed suicide — social media suicide that is.

By Alistair Fairweather
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Article
/ 2 May 2010

Facebook the latest to contract a case of megalomania

Sadly, there is no cure for megalomania. But venture capitalists ought to start funding the search for a cure, because it’s costing a lot of money.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 28 April 2010

Facebook revolts

For a 25-year-old, Mark Zuckerberg must have unusually thick skin.

By Alistair Fairweather
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Article
/ 22 April 2010

Are social games the future?

Cutesy non-violent games are taking advantage of the Facebook market.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 11 April 2010

Why did it all go wrong for the once fashionable social network?

Buying a fledgling social networking site is the quickest way for a giant corporation to gain credibility with a youthful audience.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 13 March 2010

Facebook calls on ex-detective to name social networking site

Source of <i>Daily Maily</i> story refuses to divulge "well-known social network" where he posed as girl of 14 and received sexual approaches.

By Charles Arthur
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Article
/ 4 March 2010

Israel aborts raid after soldier posts details on Facebook

Israel’s military and one of its soldiers are no longer "friends" after the gunner posted details of an impending West Bank raid on his Facebook page.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 14 February 2010

Google takes another step towards turning into Microsoft

The search engine’s answer to Facebook and Twitter is breathtakingly intrusive and takes astonishing liberties with your privacy.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 10 February 2010

Will you be using Google Buzz?

Whatever Google Buzz is, it’s certainly got people talking — but will they also be using the company’s new social networking features?

By Bobbie Johnson
Facebook fugitive continues to taunt police
Article
/ 11 January 2010

Facebook fugitive continues to taunt police

"You’ll have a laugh with me," he promised on his Facebook page. "But it will end in tears. It always does." It hasn’t yet, though.

By Jon Henley
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Article
/ 30 December 2009

The trouble with Twitter

Far from delivering a "wisdom of crowds", social networking sites have created only a deafening banality.

By James Harkin
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Article
/ 28 December 2009

2009: The Year of Twitter and Facebook

Twitter, fuelled by smartphones and online bursts of 140 characters, soared to lofty heights over the past year while Facebook eclipsed MySpace.

By Chris Lefkow
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Article
/ 23 December 2009

When the world ended

December 31 1999, and I couldn’t have been further away from a computer … about half-way up the Mozambican coast.

By Jason Norwood-Youth
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Article
/ 6 December 2009

No point in advertising to Facebook’s 350m users

The software-engineering and server-farm infrastructure needed to support 350-million users burns money, and so does the bandwidth they use.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 30 November 2009

Company urges caution with Facebook

Facebook comments and photographs could be held against employees, a training group warned on Monday.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 7 August 2009

Hacker attacks silence Twitter, slow Facebook

Twitter and Facebook suffered service problems from hacker attacks on Thursday, raising speculation about a coordinated campaign against the networks.

By Alexei Oreskovic
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Article
/ 30 June 2009

Cybercrime spreads on Facebook

Cybercrime is rapidly spreading on Facebook as hackers prey on users who think the world’s top social networking site is a safe haven on the internet.

By Jim Finkle
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Article
/ 24 June 2009

MySpace slashes workforce as users flock to Facebook

MySpace, the networking site that helped launch the careers of Lily Allen and Arctic Monkeys, said today it would cut two-thirds of its workforce.

By Staff Reporter
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