| Social media harder to resist than alcohol and cigarettes Checking email and social media is more addictive than cigarettes and alcohol, a new study has confirmed.
A team from Chicago University's Booth Business School conducted an experiment using... | |
| Madonna's Super Bowl show gets mixed reactions on Twitter Madonna's performance at the halftime show on Sunday's Super Bowl XLVI generated all kinds of responses on Twitter - ranging from "amazing" to "hating".
According to an analysis by Kanjoya, a San... |
| Pak Muslims urged to shun blasphemous Facebook in favour of Millat alternative Intellectuals and scholars have urged Muslims to use Millat Facebook, a Muslims alternative to the US Facebook, saying they should boycott products of the countries and organizations involved in... |
| Facebook valued at $94 bln in auction of shares on private market Social networking site Facebook had a valuation of at least 94 billion dollars in a recent auction of its shares on the private market.
Yesterday, 100,000 shares of Facebook traded on a private... |
| 'Terrified' Natasha Giggs fears Twitter fiend will target her kids Natasha Giggs, who was left scared for her life after an Internet thug bombarded her with chilling messages on Twitter last week, has installed a panic alarm at her home fearing an attack on her... |
| Facebook 'making more difficult for brands to advertise for free' Social networking giant Facebook is gradually making it harder for advertisers to promote their goods for free on the website, it has emerged.
According to The Wall Street Journal, when Facebook... |
| Facebook tells IPO banks not to talk about stock offering Shut your pie hole!That’s the message that notoriously press-averse Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has sent around Wall Street recently, telling Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs... |
| Zuma wants to friend you on Facebook South African President Jacob Zuma has urged citizens to make their concerns known using social media tools like Facebook and Twitter ahead of his State of the Nation address on February 9. Photo:... |
| Think Different: The Company Growing Faster Than Facebook in registration for an initial public offering, the question is top of mind for investors in technology stocks. Facebook generated $3.7 billion in revenue in 2011, and a cool $1 billion in net... |
| John Shinal's Tech Investor: Facebook and the future of public markets The company achieved this enviable competitive position before it even filed for an initial offering of stock, which means Facebook didn't need the public stock markets to grow into a company... |
| Facebook will rank Super Bowl commercials' popularity Clint Eastwood yet? Or Ferris Bueller? Or . . . cars. But here's the much (much) larger question: What ads did we see Sunday night that we loved so much that we will post to a friend's... |
| Report: Facebook to start mobile ads by March LONDON — Facebook, the social network giant, is set to begin showing advertisements to users on mobile devices before its $5 billion initial public offering, the Financial Times reported... |
| Facebook's Mobility Challenge Lots of people love their cellphones. Facebook, so far, is not a big fan.
Amid the jaw-dropping financial figures the company revealed last week when it filed for a public offering was an... |
| Facebook Valued at $94 Billion in Auction on Private Market Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc., the social-networking company that’s preparing for an initial public offering, had a valuation of at least $94 billion yesterday in an auction of its shares... |
| Hearing on Facebook, Google case today New Delhi: A district court in Delhi will hear a civil petition filed against Facebook, Google and 20 other online content companies for posting objectionable content on the web.During the previous... |
| Facebook looks to mobile devices for revenue: report LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook, the social network giant, is set to begin showing advertisements to users on mobile devices before its $5 billion initial public offering, the Financial Times reported on... |
| As Facebook Grows up, It Courts Madison Avenue Facebook Inc public was a matter of when not if, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg went out and poached Caroline Everson, then global advertising head... |
| Facebook challenge: Cashing in on mobile devices "We do not currently directly generate any meaningful revenue from the use of Facebook mobile products, and our ability to do so successfully is unproven," the company said in its review of... |
| Fun facts from the Facebook confession So let's say you're hooked. Facebook has registered its initial public offering of shares and you'll be eagerly awaiting the day they hit the... |
| Twitter Vies With YouTube for Super Bowl Fans Surfing IPads Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Aaron Magness plans to watch the Super Bowl this weekend on his 55-inch screen television, with an iPhone in one hand and an iPad at his... |
| Top court launches Twitter service The highest court in the land will now start to "tweet", issuing news about its latest judgements. To launch the new service, the Supreme Court will tweet live coverage of the swearing-in... |
| White Male Facebook Board Prompts Questions Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Most of Facebook Inc.’s more than 800 million users are women. You wouldn’t know it from looking at the board, whose seven directors are all... |
| As Facebook grows up, it courts Madison Avenue (Reuters) - About a year ago, when it became clear that taking Facebook Inc public was a matter of when not if, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg went out and poached Caroline Everson, then... |
| Bikies recruit drug mules on Facebook The Australian Crime Commission, investigating "high-risk" crime groups in South Australia, is monitoring a number of drug recruits groomed through websites such as Facebook and has alerted... |
| Gago furious over Facebook breast ban She plans to write to Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg asking for the ban to be overturned where women upload their own pictures.A group of mothers is planning a protest outside Facebook's Sydney... |
| Assange fate could be revealed on Twitter Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may well find out his fate on Twitter.Britain's Supreme Court has revealed it's about to become a bit more high-tech, as the highest court in the... |
| Super Bowl ad war shifts to social media On Friday, Coca-Cola sent out a small warning over Twitter: the bears are taking over, the company told its followers. "Don’t be alarmed." It’s all part of Coke’s bid... |
| SA Minister urges change to Facebook ban Women should be able to post pictures of themselves breastfeeding their children on Facebook, South Australia's Minister for the Status of Women Gail Gago... |
| Twitter winner glad to be at Super Bowl INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Ebonee Smith used to tease her husband about his phone alerting him to tweets by Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay in the middle of the night. On Sunday afternoon, the teasing... |
| Celebs storm Twitter on #SuperBowl Sunday CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- As the Patriots and Giants geared up for kickoff, celebrities and other notables took to Twitter in force on Super Bowl Sunday to enthuse and prognosticate, to name drop and... |
| Over 3 years later, "deleted" Facebook photos are still online Ars first brought attention to the topic . The company admitted on Friday that its older systems for storing uploaded content "did not always delete images from content delivery networks in a... |
| End of the road for Twitter's fake McCarthy To say it was a surprise when Cormac McCarthy appeared to have turned up on Twitter would be an understatement worthy of the reclusive novelist... |
| Facebook Power Users? What About the Power Shouters reported that there is a core group of Facebook users–perhaps 20 percent to 30 percent--that are responsible for the vast majority of content. Last week the Susan G. Komen for the Cure... |
| Minister to lobby Facebook on breastfeed ban WOMEN should be able to post pictures of themselves breastfeeding their children on Facebook, South Australia's Minister for the Status of Women Gail Gago... |
| Mark Zuckerberg may sell $1.7 bn in Facebook stock Facebook stock in the company's initial public offer to pay off taxes he will owe when he exercises options to buy 120 million shares. The social network's chief executive officer will owe... |
| India is second fastest growing market: Facebook NEW DELHI: Why is Facebook becoming more and more popular? Connectivity and accessibility are the biggest drawing cards, say users. Facebook also finds India equally indispensable. According to the... |
| Women to Facebook: Stop banning our breast-feeding pics Facebook has a long and tortured relationship with breasts. Now women around the world have decided to tell the site to grow up. They are staging protests in order to get Facebook to change its... |
| Engineer reveals Facebook's biggest challenge THEY may be going public with the biggest ever float by an internet company, but the main issue for Facebook remains that of privacy, the social network's chief engineer... |
