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TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Mon Mar 1, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- More Americans get their news from the Internet than from newspapers or radio, and three-fourths say they hear of news via e-mail or updates on social media sites, according to a new report... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri Feb 26, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Facebook this week was awarded a patent pertaining to streaming "feed" technology -- more specifically, "dynamically providing a news feed about a user of a social network," complementing another patent filing that has been published but not yet approved... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Feb 17, 2010 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- A former Florida high school student who was suspended by her principal after she set up a Facebook page to criticize her teacher is protected constitutionally under the First Amendment, a federal magistrate ruled... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Tue Feb 9, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Google is expected to plunge into the world of Facebook and Twitter, using its popular Gmail service to allow users to post status updates and items... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri Feb 5, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Facebook has given itself a face-lift for its sixth birthday... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Dec 23, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- The "real-time Web" is booming. From Twitter to Facebook to new search engines that discover information posted just seconds ago, it seems the 2010 Web will be fueled by our desire for instant gratification... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Dec 2, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Facebook users will soon lose the ability to join a network of friends who live in the same area but will gain the widely desired ability to control who sees every piece of information they post... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Tue Nov 10, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Hundreds of Facebook groups have been hijacked in recent days by users pointing out what they say is a weakness in how the social-networking site handles the administration of its groups... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Oct 7, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- One of the Internet's great promises is that it's the ultimate democratizer. It's open to everyone and allows all people to communicate. But so far, there have been several hitches. Not everyone has access to the Web, some governments censor the Internet, and we don't all speak the same language. Facebook and Google are trying to overcome this last obstacle... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Tue Sep 22, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Logging onto Facebook as a resident in the Golan Heights, should you enter Syria or Israel as your home country?.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Sep 16, 2009 @ 3:01pm neoform

CNN -- Facebook's user base is nearly as large as the U.S. population and, for the first time, the site has turned a profit. That was the double-barreled announcement Tuesday from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who thanked the site's users for helping its online community cross the 300 million threshold. There are about 307 million people living in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Tue Aug 4, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- The U.S. Marine Corps has banned Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites from its networks, effective immediately... Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri May 9, 2008 @ 8:29am neoform

BBC News -- Google has denied there is a brain drain of talent at the firm following the departure of its communications boss to social network Facebook. Elliot Schrage's departure as head of global communications and public affairs is the latest in a string of se.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Mar 19, 2008 @ 8:08am neoform

MSNBC -- Facebook said on Tuesday it is introducing new privacy controls that give users of the fast-growing social networking site the ability to preserve social distinctions between friends, family and co-workers online. Facebook executives told reporters at.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Thu Dec 6, 2007 @ 8:28am neoform

BBC News -- The founder of social networking site Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to users for the way it launched a social advertising system. Called Beacon, the system tracks web shopping on partner sites outside Facebook and then sells adverts to the so.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Mon Dec 3, 2007 @ 8:23am neoform

BBC News -- Facebook members have forced the social networking site to change the way a controversial ad system worked. More than 50,000 Facebook users signed a petition calling on the company to alter or abandon its Beacon advertising technology. When Facebook.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri Nov 30, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

BusinessWeek -- The social network gives in to complaints, granting users greater control over a system that shares information about Web activity Facebook made modifications to a controversial advertising system that many users considered an invasion of privacy. On N.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Thu Nov 22, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

MSNBC -- Some users of the online hangout Facebook are complaining that its two-week-old marketing program is publicizing their purchases for friends to see. Those users say they never noticed a small box that appears on a corner of their Web browsers following.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri Nov 2, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

BusinessWeek -- Can more targeted pitches on Facebook and other sites reverse the shrinking response to online ads? In June, Luke Mitchell's student marketing service, Reach Students, ran a series of Web ads to promote an offer from a major parcel delivery service. Th.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 11:16am neoform

Ars Technica -- Facebook falsely advertises the safety of its social network and fails to respond to complaints about obscene content and sexual predators in a timely manner, says the New York Attorney General, Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo's office has launched an investigation i.. Read More