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Juror Dismissed After Polling Facebook Friends

Desire Athow — Wed, 26 Nov 2008

A juror has been removed from a trial after she posted details of a sensitive case on her Facebook profile, seeking her friends’ opinion on making suitable decision on it, The Sun newspaper reported

Forget Twitter : 5 Companies Facebook Should Buy/Merge with

Desire Athow — Tue, 25 Nov 2008

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 Facebook put on the table

Facebook Wins $873m Lawsuit Against Spam Master

Desire Athow — Tue, 25 Nov 2008

In one of the largest judgement ever handed down under the US CAN-SPAM act of 2004, a Canadian citizen has been penalised with USD 873million for bombarding around 4 million junk emails to Facebook users

Twitter Says No To Facebook. What's Next?

Desire Athow — Mon, 24 Nov 2008

Facebook has apparently tried to acquire Twitter for $500 million worth of stock five weeks ago but failed after talks between senior executives at both companies ended up in disarray at the beginning of this month

Facebook INQ1 Smartphone Gets Launched on 3 with Unlimited Internet

Desire Athow — Thu, 13 Nov 2008

So, could THAT be the reason why the owner of UK Mobile Operator 3, Li Ka-shing invested more than $100 million pounds in Facebook at the beginning of the year? Anyway, today nimble Network operator three, launched its first Facebook phone, the INQ1

Facebook Attracts Nigerian Scammers Posing As African Friends

Desire Athow — Tue, 11 Nov 2008

Facebook users are being warned about a new type of cyber conmen operating on the popular social networking website who try to extract money from users by hijacking users accounts and asking for money

Virgin Atlantic Sacks 13 Cabin Crew Over Facebook Remarks

Desire Athow — Sat, 01 Nov 2008

13 Virgin Atlantic flight attendants have been dismissed following comments left on popular networking website Facebook in which they described passengers as "chavs" and lashed out at the airline's safety standards

UK's MI6 Uses Facebook To Recruit More James Bond Wannabees

Desire Athow — Mon, 29 Sep 2008

Maybe MI6's definition of the ideal spy recruit is one who can navigate the maze of social network with ease, which is perhaps why, her Majesty's secret services, the Secret Intelligence Service, have now turned to Facebook to try to get new agents, not administrative staff, onboard

Facebook Implements Controversial Redesign, Whether Users Want It or Not

Desire Athow — Fri, 12 Sep 2008

In a move that is expected to cause discomfort amongst a large section of its users, Facebook is all set to make it compulsory for all users to shift to its new design which it had launched a few weeks back

Vodafone Forges Partnership With Social Networking Site Facebook Over Text Update Service

Desire Athow — Mon, 08 Sep 2008

Vodafone UK has announced that it will collaborate with UK users of popular social networking site Facebook to allow them to send text messages from their profile page to their friends