Social Networking: News

Kim Dotcom's US lawyers have filed an application with the US District Court of Eastern Virginia, seeking a dismissal of a copyright infringement indictment against his company, Megaupload.

While a potential Facebook smartphone was ridiculed by analysts, one Paris-based marketing expert predicted a "FacePhone" will happen in 18 months, and the social networking giant will buy Nokia for $10 billion to make it happen.

It shouldn't surprise anyone that an online service with more than 900 million members will attract some attention from the porn industry, as Facebook has through the years. That attention has spurred the social network to fight smut peddlers in court, with mixed results.

Recruiters in Asia-Pacific are expected to achieve aggressive growth in 2012 despite global uncertainty and the threat of the European crisis, according to Web-based recruitment software developer, Bullhorn.

Facebook on Thursday launched Camera, a new standalone iPhone app for browsing your friends' photos and sharing new ones of your own. Were Instagram owned by anyone else, it might be sweating bullets right now.

Facebook might have acquired Instagram, but that's not stopping the site from releasing a social photo-sharing app of its own.

IBM says a study it did of some 1700 Chief Executive Officers worldwide found that many indeed - or should be - grasping social media as a key enabler of collaboration and innovation.

Facebook Pages Manager is a new app dedicated to helping admins manage multiple pages in one place.

Sick of your friends tweeting during dinner or constantly texting on nights out?

In its third day of trading, Facebook's stock is still in a slump, taking the shine off the frenzy that led up to the company's initial public offering (IPO) last week.

With the world's largest social networking website, Facebook, going public it is quite obvious that comparisons with Google will crop up. We have collated some figures and here is a list of numbers comparing the two giants.

It should have been a revival of sorts for Web 2.0 public floats. Instead, the social networking giant Facebook’s IPO is turning out to be a dampener, raising questions about its knock-on effects on the fortunes of other social media hopefuls.

Facebook shares plunged nearly 11 per cent on Monday during the stock's first full day of trade as the enthusiasm from a massive public offering for the social network giant turned to scepticism.

The rapid growth of the internet and social media are causing major legal headaches globally, with no clear-cut agreement on how to control content, a law lecturer says.

Facebook's initial public offering, or IPO, hits Wall Street Friday, and is one of the most highly anticipated tech stock offerings of the past decade. Everyone, it seems, wants to be in on the action. And it's possible to do so--after the big boys get their hands on it first.

The mobile gift-giving app Karma has announced it has been acquired by Facebook. The announcement came shortly after the markets closed on Facebook's first day as a publicly traded company.

This probably isn't how Facebook envisioned its initial public offering would roll out.

Some key developments in the eight years since Facebook Inc's creation:

With Facebook's long-anticipated IPO expected to hit on Friday morning (US time), the company has set its initial share price at $US38.

Social media - Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and so forth - has become a way of life for companies and their employees to interact with the public, but beating back the fraudsters that try to prey on customers, not to mention keeping employees from spilling sensitive data, is becoming a full-time job for many.