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The lessons of tweeting; learning from social media Social media is extremely popular, especially with young people. As a result the education world is exploring how that success can be used in the classroom… 17/05/2013
Phishing – don’t take the bait Our latest Hi Tech programme is all about phishing. Phishing is an attempt to gain sensitive information – passwords or bank details – by masquerading as a… 26/03/2013
Tweeting from the afterlifeTwitter fanatics can now rest in peace comfortably knowing that they can continue to tweet from beyond the grave. A new application allows users to send… 13/03/2013
On Facebook, you are what you likeWhen Facebook users clicks on the ‘like’ button, they are not only approving a video, a friend’s status or a page, they are revealing more than they think… 12/03/2013
Hooked on Facebook: social media addiction For anyone who has quipped that they are hooked on social networks like Facebook and Twitter the latest research suggests it might be no joke. The… 19/02/2013
Facebook’s mobile ad push disappoints Facebook says it doubled its mobile advertising revenue in the fourth quarter of last year from the previous three months. That is a sign the top social… 31/01/2013
Carmakers race ahead in 2013 The world’s biggest car makers have been flexing their muscles – and showing off their muscle cars – in the place they call Motor City – Detroit. The North… 19/01/2013
Careful what you click on! One year after a plan to reform European data protection laws was unveiled, it is still the focus of intense debate. It seems reaching an agreement will not… 07/01/2013
Morgan Stanley fined over Facebook IPO Morgan Stanley has been fined the equivalent of 3.8 million euros for breaking the law over some of its involvement with Facebook’s initial public offering of… 18/12/2012
Share lock-up ends for Facebook Shares in Facebook jumped in heavy trading on the Nasdaq. The rise comes as millions of shares held by the company’s staff become available – the largest… 14/11/2012
Facebook hits 1 billion globally, claims 600 million mobile users Social media giant Facebook has hit the symbolic target of one billion users the company announced on Thursday. It also claimed 600 million mobile users in… 04/10/2012
Tech lobbying powerhouse set to open doors in WashingtonGoogle, Amazon.com, eBay, Facebook and other Internet companies have formed a lobbying group called The Internet Association to tackle regulatory and… 20/09/2012
The rise of the anti-social network With Pair, Family Leaf, Snapchat and so on, the number of social networks is growing all the time. Many of them promise intimacy and confidentiality… 11/09/2012
Hungary PM ‘unfriends’ IMF on facebookThe prime minister of Hungary and the International Monetary Fund are not friends any more, and that’s official. Viktor Orban ‘defriended’ the IMF from his… 07/09/2012
What hope for an Italian turnaround? Italy has been the eurozone’s most sluggish economy for more than a decade. Its economy has been sinking deeper into recession while its public debt has been… 17/08/2012
Facebook shares dive on insider sales Facebook’s shares sunk to a record low on Thursday; they were down close to half of the $38 price investors paid when the stock first went on sale three… 16/08/2012
Facebook faces unfriendly growth numbers There was a not very friendly investor reaction to Facebook’s drastic slowdown in revenue growth. The social networking website also offered no financial… 27/07/2012
Facebook’s question – how young is too young?Facebook is reportedly developing technology that would allow children younger than 13 to use the social networking site under parental supervision. No… 05/06/2012
Opera Software – Facebook’s next acquisition? The Norwegian internet browser company Opera Software’s share price was boosted by a rumour that Facebook is keen to buy it to gain greater access to mobile… 29/05/2012
Facebook share sale, cause for celebration? The first week after the IPO was not easy for Facebook and others in the financial world. Trading did not start when it should have and the shares did not… 25/05/2012
Sharing turns to suing over Facebook IPO Facebook and a number of banks are being sued by some of the social networking site’s new shareholders. They are angry and have claimed that its weakened… 23/05/2012
Zuckerberg – code, people and riches Around half the Internet users on Earth are signed onto Facebook. That meant more than 900 million by the beginning of April this year. Social networking, for… 18/05/2012
Facebook fizzle or sizzle? Stirring up passions in the realms of finance and friends, social network site Facebook’s shares have gone on sale and did not provide the massive immediate… 18/05/2012
Facebook overvalued? As shares in the world’s biggest social network website start trading on the Nasdaq we ask if Facebook’s popularity is overshadowing doubts about its long… 17/05/2012
Facebook boosts IPO size Facebook on Wednesday increased the size of its initial public offering of shares by 25 percent. The additional shares will be sold by early investors… 16/05/2012
Facebook share sale guide price set Facebook has announced the price range for its shares when they go on sale to the public for the first time. They will cost between $28 and $35 each (21-26… 04/05/2012
Facebook weaker before share sale Less than a month before Facebook’s initial public offering of shares on the Nasdaq, its quarterly results disappointed investors on Tuesday. Revenue was… 24/04/2012
Facebook – forging an empire Last week Twitter virtually exploded, when thousands of users shared their opinion on what was a major surprise in the IT world – to put it mildly. That… 13/04/2012
Facebook snaps up Instagram for big bucks One billion dollars is the price that Facebook is to pay for Instagram, a two-year-old photo-sharing mobile phone app developer that has never made a profit… 10/04/2012
Bonus ITV: Richard Allan, Facebook’s Director of Policy The unedited full-length ITV between euronews reporter Seamus Kearney and Facebook’s Director of Policy, Richard Allan via Skype. He responds to complaints… 08/02/2012
Facebook to sell shares, but Zuckerberg stays in control As Facebook’s boss Mark Zuckerberg unveiled plans for the biggest ever initial public offering of shares by an internet company he also made it clear he will… 02/02/2012
Facebook files for market flotation Facebook, the world’s largest internet social networking site has taken its first formal steps towards being launched on the stock market. The brainchild of… 02/02/2012
Facebook seeking billions by going public Facebook is reportedly gearing up to go public with its stock. A source close to the world’s largest internet social network said it could make a public stock… 29/11/2011
Facebook chat means jail for jurorIt was a first in legal history: a juror who contacted a defendant through Facebook, causing the collapse of a 6 million pound (6.8 million euros) drug trial… 16/06/2011
Facebook: “network of 500 million passions” As social networking sites grow by the minute, it is estimated that some half a billion people around the world are members of Facebook. The average user has… 14/04/2011
Social Media in the classroom Social media can be a tool for political and social change, it can also be a powerful aid in the classroom. Connecting people from different corners of the… 11/04/2011
New media’s crucial role in North African events There is no doubt about the crucial role played by new media, in particular mobile communication, in the recent events in north Africa. At the recent… 21/02/2011
Safer Internet Day 2011 On 8 February, Safer Internet Day took place in almost 70 countries across Europe and world-wide. How can the Internet be made safer for children? 14/02/2011
Facebook graffiti in Tahrir Square in CairoOpposition supporters talk near graffiti referring to social networking site “Facebook” in Tahrir Square in Cairo. Steve Crisp / REUTERS 05/02/2011
Facebook in hacking attackSocial network site Facebook has been the target of what it calls “sophisticated hacking”. In a blog the company said the action was taken by an unidentified… 16/02/2013
“Erase” your ex-mate!Many say that there is no way to erase the past. The only thing you can do, is to forget about it. Wrong. At least in the social world of Facebook. A new… 15/02/2013
Facebook trials a search tool for its contentFacebook has launched its own search tool. Users of the world’s biggest social network will be soon able to trawl content shared among friends – providing a… 16/01/2013
Facebook criticised for allowing cyber-bullyingSocial network Facebook is under fire again for privacy issues after a woman in Iceland became the subject of a bitter hate campaign. She dared to criticise… 07/01/2013
Austrian group makes cash call to poke FacebookAn Austrian group calling itself “Europe versus Facebook”, which has filed a privacy law suit against the American social network, is launching a crowdfunding… 04/12/2012
Lance Amstrong acknowledges the UCI decision on TwitterStripped yesterday of his 7 Tour de France by the UCI, Lance Amstrong has not officially commented on the decision yet. However, the cyclist, now banned for… 23/10/2012
Zuckerberg adds Russian PM Medvedev as new Facebook friendBillionaire entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg has a new Facebook friend. The founder and chief executive of the world’s most popular social networking site met… 01/10/2012
Facebook denies claims of privacy breachFacebook has said claims that private messages have appeared on public timelines are false. Some users, mostly in France, had said that posts sent between… 25/09/2012
Riot police in action as Dutch birthday party goes viralIt was planned as a small town birthday party for a sixteen-year-old girl. The invitations were issued and around 3,000 revellers turned up sparking violent… 22/09/2012
Zuckerberg: building a smartphone would be ‘wrong strategy’ for FacebookMark Zuckerberg soothed investors in his first major public appearance since the No. 1 social network’s rocky May IPO, breathing life into its struggling… 12/09/2012
Teenager given one-year sentence after ‘Facebook murder’In a case which has become known as the ‘Facebook Murder’, a 15-year old Dutch boy has been sentenced to one year juvenile detention for stabbing to death… 04/09/2012
Facebook shares fall as sales block endsA deluge of Facebook shares hit the market on Thursday as a lock-up period preventing sales by some company insiders and early investors came to an end. As… 16/08/2012
Facebook fiasco hits UBS profitUBS has suffered a surprise slump in profit. The Swiss bank’s second-quarter net profit more than halved to the equivalent of 354 million euros. UBS said… 31/07/2012
Facebook shares tumble after revenue growth stallsFacebook has reported a drastic slowdown in revenue growth. Although second quarter sales figures for the social networking site climbed 32 percent, they… 27/07/2012
Facebook founder ties the knotFacebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has updated his online status – to “married”. The 28 year-old billionaire wed his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan in an… 20/05/2012
Facebook stock slightly up in first day of tradingFacebook’s trade debut generated more media attention than profit as it closed at $38.23 – up just 23 cents from its original price. Facebook head Mark… 19/05/2012
Facebook shares lacklustre in early tradingShares in the social networking website Facebook made their debut on Friday and did not get the expected bounce. They floated after founder and chief… 18/05/2012
Facebook makes debut on Nasdaq stock exchangeFacebook has become the third-largest initial public offering in US history behind General Motors and Visa, raising at least 16 billion dollars. The firm is… 18/05/2012
Facebook kicks off investor roadshowFacebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg kicked-off the company’s investor roadshow on Monday as it tries to raise new funding. The 27-year-old… 08/05/2012
Facebook promotes organ donationPeople in the US and some European countries, including Britain, will be able to become an organ donor using Facebook. The social networking site’s founder… 02/05/2012
Europeans to have their say on ACTA via facebookThe President of the European Parliament will chat live on facebook on Thursday with people wishing to have their say on proposed anti-online piracy… 25/04/2012
Patent war: Facebook responds to Yahoo lawsuit with its ownFacebook is striking back by filing its own lawsuit after Yahoo filed one accusing the social networking site of violating patents. Yahoo’s case claims… 03/04/2012
‘Israel loves Iran’: people power seeks to stop warIt started as an individual Facebook post – it has spread into a popular online campaign aimed at preventing war between Israel and Iran. “Israel loves… 24/03/2012
Yahoo sues Facebook over patent infringementsInternet giant Yahoo is suing Facebook over ten patents, including one that alleges the social networking site copied its methods for advertising on the… 13/03/2012
Twitter campaign to free Moroccan teen who insulted kingA social media campaign has begun to free an 18-year-old man who has been jailed for publishing cartoons of the king of Morocco. Walid Bahoman will spend a… 17/02/2012
Facebook denies Sarkozy supportFrench newspaper reports have suggested that Facebook has been ‘helping‘ President Nicolas Sarkozy to prepare his online re-election campaign. Weekly… 16/02/2012
Austrian activists proclaim Facebook climbdownFacebook has agreed to release more information about the data it collects from millions of users, according to Austrian activists. The… 07/02/2012
Fancy some friendly shares?The vastly popular social networking internet site Facebook is reportedly set to change from being a private to a public company selling billions of dollars… 01/02/2012
Facebook ‘light my fire’Palo Alto, California, has been Facebook’s home base since June 2004. It was conceived on the other side of the country, at Harvard University, originally… 31/01/2012
Slovak MPs strip for scrapping their immunityIt is not only Ukrainian feminists who are stripping off to make their point. Seventeen Slovak politicians posted a naked Facebook photo to protest against… 31/01/2012
New Facebook worm threatens user securityMore than 45,000 Facebook accounts – mostly in the UK and France – have been compromised. A computer worm – dubbed Ramnit – has stolen login credentials and… 06/01/2012
Facebook to improve its privacy policyFacebook agreed on Wednesday to overhaul privacy protection for more than half a billion users outside North America, after a three-month investigation found… 22/12/2011
Anti-corruption campaign underway, as Egyptians go to the pollsBallot boxes have been sealed after the final day of voting in the first stage of Egypt’s parliamentary polls. Turnout has been “massive” and “unexpected”… 29/11/2011
Sp@nish elections: the race for web supremacyIt’s fair to say the Spanish election race has failed to get hearts racing with excitement. In fact rather than a ‘race’ it resembles a fatigued shuffle… 18/11/2011
Google launches its own online music storeGoogle has become the latest tech company to venture into the music industry and has launched its own online music store. The world’s largest search company… 17/11/2011
Facebook photo row in GermanyIn Germany social website, Facebook has responded to a potential legal threat over software the site uses which identifies people. Users are automatically… 08/11/2011
Young Palestinians embrace social mediaThe internet has made the world much smaller. For young Palestinians, it has led to a growing hunger for news beyond their walls. Around 40 percent of those… 23/09/2011
Facebookers jailed for inciting riotsTwo Facebook users in their early twenties have been jailed for four years for inciting riots. Jordan Blackshaw and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan set up pages on… 17/08/2011
Facebook users jailed for ‘inciting riots’Two English Facebook users have been jailed for four years for inciting riots more than one week ago. Jordan Blackshaw and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan created… 17/08/2011
Social networks show the kindness of strangers after England riotsIn the wake of the riots in England, social networks have been accused of spreading messages that increased the violence and looting. However, one man is… 14/08/2011
Facebook launches video chat with SkypeFacebook and Skype are joining forces to bring video chat to the social networking site. The service, initially limited to one-to-one video calling, will be… 07/07/2011
The chat that landed a juror in jailThe following are extracts from the Facebook chat between juror Joanna Fraill and defendant Jamie Sewart: Fraill: “jamie nice one hun hope u both sort… 16/06/2011
Facebook nears 700m users, loses in US, CanadaThe world’s largest social network Facebook has lost about six million users in the US, its home country, while growing elsewhere. By the start of June… 13/06/2011
Facebook criticised for face recognitionWhen you upload a new photo to your Facebook albums, you will receive tag suggestions, as the firm uses face recognition technology to trace your… 08/06/2011
French TV and radio hit with social media banFrench television and radio programmes have been banned from mentioning social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter except for news purposes. … 07/06/2011
Facebook sparks monster birthday in Hamburg16 year-old Thessa of Hamburg was looking forward to an unforgettable birthday party after inviting her friends via Facebook. Trouble is, she forgot to flag… 04/06/2011
Friday of work in EgyptFriday is traditionally a day of prayer in Egypt, but since the January revolution, it has also been a day of protest. Now a group of IT workers have come… 04/06/2011
High-tech wedding invites allExperience-sharing Internet platforms and umpteen eager television teams are all prepared to make the William and Kate extravaganza your extravaganza. They… 26/04/2011
Obama visits Facebook in bid to reboot messageUnder pressure over the economy, US President Barack Obama’s latest communications drive saw him visit Facebook’s California headquarters. Appearing… 21/04/2011
Facebook documents reveal strong profitsIt turns out Facebook is making far stronger profits than analysts had calculated. According to documents provided to clients by Goldman Sachs – which is a… 07/01/2011
Zuckerberg is Time’s Person of the YearThe man behind Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2010. It is the latest accolade for the 26-year-old… 15/12/2010
Cantona told to stick to footballFrance’s finance minister Christine Lagarde has told French football legend Eric Cantona to stick to the beautiful game and stay clear of economics. In a… 02/12/2010
Immortality on the internet?It is an uncomfortable thought but what will happen to the private e-mails, photos or films you have posted on the web, or your account on a social networking… 16/11/2010
Facebook takes on Google and Yahoo The social networking site Facebook is taking on Google and Yahoo by launching its own messaging system. The new communication platform will unify… 16/11/2010
Queen Elizabeth II adds regal face to FacebookOn coins, on notes and now on Facebook as Queen Elizabeth II signs up to the world’s most popular social networking site. Add the British Monarchy Facebook… 08/11/2010
The Social NetworkWe have had the social network, now here comes the film. The Social Network is about the founding of Facebook and follows Mark Zuckerberg as he goes from… 28/09/2010
Teenagers gunned down on Facebook hitlistIn Colombia gunmen have killed three teenagers named on a death list on Facebook. The stark warnings told them to leave the remote town of Puerto Asis, in… 27/08/2010
Facebook pictures cause storm in Middle EastFormer Israeli soldier Eden Abergil has posted controversial images on her facebook page. The pictures are in an album called ‘the best days of my life’ and… 17/08/2010
Facebook reaches 500 million online milestoneSocial networking site Facebook has notched up a major online milestone – signing 500 million users – almost eight per cent of the world’s… 22/07/2010
Angry Facebook users protest over released dataOutraged Facebook users have organised a “Quit Facebook Day” with nearly 25,000 members pledging to delete their accounts today. Their anger has been… 31/05/2010
Anti-Sarkozy protests in FranceThey called it No Sarkozy Day. Internet bloggers and users of social websites are behind a protest against the French President that took place in Paris and… 27/03/2010
