Facebook Abandons Ad Partnership With Microsoft

Usually when a new product is launched, it's ramped up by huge publicity and intense advertising - but in the case of Microsoft's social network, So.cl, the announcement got lost amidst the heavy Facebook IPO press. Originating...

Details of Microsoft's would-be Google+ - and, potentially, Facebook - killer Tulalip have leaked out ahead of the service's launch, under the new name of Socl. Socl - what you get when you try to type 'social' while drunk -...

Microsoft’s MSN China division has partnered with social networking services provider Renren to offer instant messaging and social networking offerings in the booming Chinese online market.Under the agreement, the companies...

Social networking giant Facebook is the first to cross one trillion page views milestone, according to new data released by Google.Google’s Doubleclick advertising division has released a list of 1,000 most visited websites...

Social networking giant Facebook is introducing another fresh round of enhanced privacy features in order to appease fans and all concerned who have been raising concerns about the alleged lack of interest shown by Mark...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt informed attendees at All Things D’s D9 conference that the company had tried to strike a search deal with Facebook but the social networking giant refused.Schmidt said that Google wanted to...

Microsoft has deepened its ties with Facebook by integrating the platform’s social network data with the Bing search engine.Under the new partnership, users will be able to view ‘likes’ and recommendations made...

It remains a mystery why Microsoft paid so much for Skype; at $8.5 billion, the VoIP behemoth has been valued at around three times the market capitalisation it would have reached had it opted for the IPO it has been planning...

Social networking platform Facebook is expected to have a market value of $234 billion in 2015, earning $11 billion on $22 billion. Lou Kerner, an analyst with Wedbush Securities, a company which analyses the value of private...

Facebook has announced the acquisition of Seattle based start-up Rel8tion in a bid to boost mobile advertisements.The social networking giant, which currently has over 200 million mobile users, plans to use Rel8tion's hyper-local...

Facebook serves 23 per cent of all US display advertising, new data by comScore has revealed In third quarter this year, Facebook served a total of 297 billion display ad impressions through its social networking...

US advertisers are expected to spend around $1.68 billion placing adverts on social networking platforms in 2010, with half being spent on Facebook. According to the latest predictions made by research firm eMarketer, the amount...

A new study has rated the satisfaction of users on social networking site Facebook as "abysmal". The Wall Street Journal reports that according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) e-business report, developed...

Social networking giant Facebook is all set to open its development centre in Hyderabad, India, the country's technology capital, in an attempt to expand its global presence, as 70 percent of its 400 million users are outside the...

Search engine giant Google will soon start indexing status updates from Facebook Pages as a part of its real-time search feature, the company has announced via Twitter, which also has a real-time search indexing deal with...