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• Kondoot founders – Australia’s own Zuckerbergs?

  By Hafizah Osman | 29 February, 2012 16:57

  Social media is the next big thing. Well, it’s been around for a while but, it’s diverging into different media avenues at an alarming rate.

• Facebook IPO filing addresses mobile, e-commerce

  By Cameron Scott | 02 February, 2012 13:23

  Facebook's application Wednesday to sell shares on the open market includes hints about its plans for mobile use and online payments, and reveals previously guarded information about how much its executives get paid.

• Social networking, ignorance, and apathy

  By Mark Gibbs | 09 December, 2011 05:45

  There's an old joke: What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? Answer: I don't know and I don't care.

• Facebook settles FTC privacy complaints

  By Grant Gross | 30 November, 2011 05:28

  Facebook has agreed to settle US Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers "on numerous occasions" by telling them they could keep their personal information private, then repeatedly sharing that information, the agency said Tuesday.

• In pictures: 8 tech superstars as comic book characters

  By Patrick Miller | 25 August, 2011 16:19

  Ever wonder what superpowers Steve Jobs or Bill Gates would have in a comic book? Check out our slideshow of what-if tech superheroes (and supervillains). ART: Neil McAllister and Tony Talbert

• yARN: Remember, remember, the fifth of November

  By SocialSecurity: David Heath | 18 August, 2011 18:09

  The recent YouTube video from Anonymous threatening a diabolical attack upon Facebook on November 5 continues a long tradition of civil unrest.

• yARN: Does Google's latest social networking attempt add up?

  By Nick Broughall | 05 July, 2011 11:58

  750 million people can’t be wrong. At least, that seems to be the philosophy at Google, which had Facebook firmly set in its sights last week as it launched its latest attempt at social networking.

• Winklevoss twins back in court against Facebook

  By John Ribeiro | 24 June, 2011 13:58

  Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss were back in court on Thursday, a day after their lawyers had submitted to a court in California that they would not appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court their US$65 million settlement with Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

• Facebook shares its datacentre secrets

  By Robert McMillan | 08 April, 2011 12:43

  Facebook is sharing some of the secrets that help make its Prineville, Oregon, datacentre one of the world's most efficient.

• Facebook's Zuckerberg tours China's top search engine Baidu

  By Michael Kan | 20 December, 2010 18:05

  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg visited the campus of China's largest search engine Baidu on Monday, meeting with the company's CEO Robin Li and other senior staff.

• Facebook's Zuckerberg re-ignites privacy brouhaha

  By Sharon Gaudin | 04 June, 2010 06:17

  The folks at Facebook just might be wishing today that CEO Mark Zuckerberg just hadn't ... well, said anything about privacy yesterday at the Wall Street Journal 's All Things Digital conference.

• Facebook CEO Zuckerberg causes stir over privacy

  By Sharon Gaudin | 12 January, 2010 09:47

  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's contention last week that privacy is becoming less important to online users caused a stir across the Internet and among privacy advocates.

• New Facebook privacy controls just weeks away

  By David Coursey | 03 December, 2009 01:18

  Remember those privacy changes that Facebook announced last July? They are about to be implemented across the network, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said in an open letter posted on the site.

• Facebook confirms site glitches

  By James Niccolai | 22 September, 2009 09:45

  Facebook confirmed Monday what some users have been noticing for the past few days: Its site is having problems.

• Facebook may become social network hub with FriendFeed buy

  By Sharon Gaudin | 11 August, 2009 10:13

  Facebook may be looking to become a social networking hub with its move to acquire real-time feed aggregator FriendFeed.