Facebook is trying to prove that a company doesn’t have to make a smartphone or operating system to define how people interact with mobile technology.
New mobile users from poor countries will end up thinking ‘web’ and ‘internet’ are just other words for Facebook and Google.
Arab interior ministers have been advised to confront the spread of extremism through social media networks with their own cyber know-how.
Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement has won 25% of the votes in Italy’s election through mixing new technology with old-style activism.
Is the workplace inherently sexist? Verashni Pillay thinks so and thanks one Facebook executive for starting a conversation on how to change that.
Pope Benedict has urged Catholics to use social networks like Twitter and Facebook to win converts, as he launched his own smartphone app.
Indian police have arrested a 21-year-old woman for criticising on Facebook the total shutdown of Mumbai after the death of politician Bal Thackeray.
President Barack Obama has won a second term in the White House, overcoming deep doubts among voters about his handling of the US economy.
Salman Rushdie said that if a fatwa calling for his murder had been issued in the social networking era, it would have further endangered his life.
An innocent call on Facebook to party led to riots, destruction, looting, fires and injuries after a party went viral on the social network.
Sure, Facebook and Zynga’s IPOs sound like abject failures, but they don’t mean another internet bubble is bursting, writes Alistair Fairweather.
A shrewd investment 11 years ago on a little-known and unprofitable Chinese internet company is now paying huge dividends for Naspers.
It’s a busy time for corporate earnings as big-name companies, including Apple, Facebook and Barclays provide trading updates in the week ahead.
Marissa Mayer is taking her talent for revenue enhancement from Google to the competition. Josh Halliday & Charles Arthur report.
Even though we desire solitude, we can’t stand being by ourselves. Good thing we have Twitter, writes Khaya Dlanga.
The public knowledge website is more than a decade old and remains among the top 10 Internet sites in the world, but some say it is becoming dowdy.
Two-thirds of South African teens and adults suffer from a "fear of missing out" on more interesting activities than what they’re doing.
Swiss bank UBS AG may have lost as much as $350 million due to technical glitches on the Nasdaq stock exchange the day Facebook went public.
Facebook is letting its nearly 1-billion users vote on changes to its privacy policy.
First National Bank is clearly doing something right in how it builds its reputation
Facebook is preparing to take on Google and Apple’s domination of the smartphone market by creating its own handset, codenamed Buffy.
The listing of social media giant Facebook has turned into more of a damp squib than the celebration of the age of social media it was supposed to be
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s fortune dwindled by $2-billion in minutes, as underwriters deserted the stock amid claims of Nasdaq incompetence.
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wed longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan on Saturday, announcing the nuptials through a status update.
Facebook shares have fizzled on their first day of trade on the Nasdaq, erasing early gains of as much as 18% at close to their IPO price.
Facebook’s IPO is likely to be this week’s eagerly anticipated event but, with the eurozone facing renewed uncertainty, hardly the most significant.
Despite almost certain IPO success, Facebook has to start making money from mobile phone advertising if it hopes to continue its growth.
A whole lot — but what the internet giants do know hardly gives a true picture of who you are.
French social media users have been warned not to "bugger" the country’s election by talking about exit poll results before voting is officially over.
Facebook has bought the photo-sharing service for $1-billion. What does history tell us about the wisdom of such mega-deals?
Facebook has announced it will pay $1-billion in cash and stock for photo-sharing application Instagram.
Burma’s journalists will take to Twitter and Facebook in their battle to beat press restrictions and deliver breaking news of Sunday’s by-elections.