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Serena Software is breaking out of the corporate mould by announcing today that its 800 employees around the globe will participate each week in a company-wide program called “Facebook Fridays,” which encourages...

Yahoo is launching a new Social Service aimed at College students, Alumni and recruiters. The new service, called Kickstart, comes a few weeks after its 360 blogging/social networking effort was dumped.Although it draws...

IT security and control firm Sophos has revealed the results of a new survey examining the potential productivity implications for businesses that allow their employees to access Facebook during office hours.Sophos polled 500...

John Battelle of Battellemedia has posted what seems to be a pre press-release by Google (dated 1st November 2007), announcing the launch of a new platform called Open social which aims at creating "a set of common APIs for...

The Microsoft/Facebook deal has been heralded as one of the most astute moves by Microsoft, a game winner for the largest software developer, at the expense of its archrival Google. Microsoft gets more than just a bit of Facebook...

Microsoft beat Google in securing a minuscule chunk of Facebook - 1.6 per cent - for USD 240 million, a couple of weeks or so after Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, dismissed Facebook as a fad. The social network, launched by Mark...

Social Network Myspace took a page from Facebook (pun intended) and announced that they are going to allow third party applications to be developed for Myspace "within the next few months". Facebook has freed its APIs...

Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg answered some interesting questions from Industry veteran, John Battelle, at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco. He provided with some interesting tidbits about the company. New financing has...

Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo and Facebook announced a new model to enforce safeguards aimed at protecting its network members, especially children and adolescents, from sexual predators, obscene content and harassment.Under...

Facebook started its life as a college website, aiming to attract teenagers and young adults. But Mark Zuckerberg's startup is starting to change, thanks to its APIs, into a tool that can be used by professionals. And this can...

The first was known as one of "Larry and Sergey's golden boys", the other was the Chief Financial Officer of Youtube : Their common point? They both defected to one of Google's most serious competitors, Facebook....

Over 16 million people are registered with Friends Reunited and it's estimated that 28 million are members of Facebook, but according to leading instant online credit information provider, Equifax, many are leaving themselves...

The shy and retiring, softly spoken, CEO of Microsoft, Steve "What is the sound of one hand clapping" Ballmer has tilted at a few dark satanic rumour mills which have been claiming he might be buying Facebook for $10...

Rumours that Software Giant Microsoft is negotiating a stake in social networking site Facebook is proof the IT industry could be in the run-up to another dotcom bust, according to David Bradshaw, principal analyst at Ovum....

Software giant Microsoft is having a chat with the social notworking site Facebook to buy five per cent of the company. According to the Wall Street Journal, if the deal goes ahead, it could push the value of Facebook up to $15...