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Beleaguered social networking company MySpace has added to its appeal by partnering with Google, which would now start showing the former’s status updates into its real-time search results. MySpace has incidentally...

In a bid to increase its dominance in the search engine market, Google has announced its intention to offer real-time search results which will include live updates of breaking news, tweets and blog content pertaining to the...

Myspace, the pioneer social networking website owned by News Corporation, has shed 420 employees, bringing its total head count to around 1000 as it emerged that Facebook has overtaken the former poster child of Web 2.0 in the...

A digital rights group has created an automatic system for tracking changes to website terms and conditions and privacy policies. The tool is designed to help users of websites to keep up to date with their rights and...

Social networking website Facebook has reached another important milestone this year, signing in its 200 millionth user, three months after hitting 150 million members landmark. All this of course is happening during the firm's...

Figures disclosed by internet research company comScore shows that social networking website Facebook is more popular than ever, eclipsing the likes of Myspace and Bebo globally. By some accounts, Facebook is growing at the...

Figures published by online research firm Nielsen Online show that social networking behemoth Facebook has more than doubled in size during the last 12 months, further widening the gap with the likes of Myspace and...

Facebook wanted to buy Twitter while it is still surfing the social networking wave but Twitter, feeling that it could be the next great thing, said no, arguing that it is worth more than the $500 million worth of Shares that...

Should and Could Facebook sell out to Software Behemoth Microsoft? That's a tantalising prospect that was proposed by respected news outlet Wall Street Journal, which normally has very well placed sources. According to WSJ,...

A survey by recruitment firm Badenoch and Clark shows that 75 percent of UK employees affirm that they do not access social networking websites - like Bebo, Facebook or Myspace - during office hours. That's a far cry from what...

Google latest Q4 earnings reports might be the surest sign so far that the American economy is indeed backpedalling. The Wall Street Darling reported a 17 percent Jump which was below what analysts had expected - although by a...

Developers can now sign up to MySpace's Developer Platform which was announced in October 2007. By next Tuesday, according to PC Advisor and a host of other news websites, the developer site will be made public and will feature...

In what looks to be a concerted action to damage Google's Open Social alliance, Bebo has announced that it will use Facebook's API's.In the past week, three other social partners of the Open Social alliance have announced that...

Truphone has released an application that will allow Facebook users and friends to interface using nothing more than a microphone and a headphone. The application dubbed "Call me" can be dropped anywhere on a Facebook...

Cash rich Social Networking website Facebook is rumoured to have offered USD 85m to get its grips on Zhanzuo.com, a 7m member Chinese networking website, with more than 96% of its audience in Asia.According to Alexa, the...