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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

  • Finland’s moving moose is online hit

    Finland’s new passport has become a hit on the Internet due to a quirky security feature. When flicking through it, a moose appears to walk across the… 28/03/2013

  • Annual pillow fighting day held across the world

    Clashes are expected to erupt across the globe next week, with thousands set to take to the streets as police look on passively. But with the crowds armed… 25/03/2013

  • Tweeting from the afterlife

    Twitter 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 like

    When 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

  • Violence in schools: The dread of cyber-bullying

    Violence in schools is a fact of life for many people around the world. Harassment, intimidation, cyber-bullying, threats, assaults – they all have a… 01/03/2013

  • Financing for the future

    Crowdfunding is a way of financing a business venture: small contributions from dozens, if not hundreds of investors via social networking sites for example… 21/01/2013

  • 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

  • e-Twinning: social network for european teachers

    Teachers – especially young ones – are certainly not a privileged category these days. Like many others throughout Europe, teachers are suffering from… 14/09/2012

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 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 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

  • France’s tweeting toddlers

    They start them young at a primary school at Siarrouy in the Haute-Pyrénées of south-west France. Since November 2011 they have been learning to write, not… 10/04/2012

  • Trading within Facebook

    A project designed by students and supported by the European Youth Capital 2012 scheme is reaching the four corners of the planet at the speed of a few… 13/03/2012

  • 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

  • French PM’s shy Twitter debut

    Just four tweets since October, a Twitter alias and a default egg as a profile picture. There are thousands of accounts like this on Twitter, but this… 12/12/2011

  • Facebook in hacking attack

    Social 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

  • Wikipedia parent company launches new travel site

    Wikipedia’s parent company, the Wikimedia Foundation, has launched its twelfth official project: Wikivoyage. Using a similar format to Wikipedia… 16/01/2013

  • The best of #burgergate

    The discovery of horse meat in beef burgers on sale in British and Irish supermarkets has shocked many people and raised questions about how little some… 16/01/2013

  • Facebook criticised for allowing cyber-bullying

    Social 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

  • Holy tweet! Pope Benedict XVI’s first Twitter message

    Pope Benedict XVI has posted his first message on the social networking site Twitter. The Pontiff’s inaugural tweet reads: “Dear friends, I’m pleased to get… 12/12/2012

  • In nomine @Pontifex – Pope’s Twitter address announced

    The Vatican has unveiled the handle of the pope’s new Twitter account. @Pontifex is expected to be one of the most-followed Twitter accounts ever — Benedict… 03/12/2012

  • Spinning the war online

    The conflict between Israel and Hamas has extended to a new virtual front. The fighting is now also taking place on the internet and its various social… 20/11/2012

  • European brands’ digital leaders meet in Paris

    Social networks, online marketing and mobile technologies were all the buzz at the Electronic Business Group (EBG) event in Paris on Wednesday, November 14th… 15/11/2012

  • Lance Amstrong acknowledges the UCI decision on Twitter

    Stripped 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: building a smartphone would be ‘wrong strategy’ for Facebook

    Mark 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

  • Germany: Social media to be used for credit checks

    Germany’s largest credit agency is coming under fire, after revealing that it plans to gather information from social media websites. The data would be used… 08/06/2012

  • Hackers leak Linkedin passwords

    The social networking site Linkedin says it will take several days to investigate a data breach that has compromised some of its members passwords. Over six… 07/06/2012

  • Facebook founder ties the knot

    Facebook 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 makes debut on Nasdaq stock exchange

    Facebook 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

  • China shuts social media sites after coup rumours

    China announced a crackdown on the use of social media websites on Saturday following recent rumours that a coup was underway. The decision comes after… 31/03/2012

  • Fears for blogger after extradition

    Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari has been deported from Malaysia back to Saudi Arabia. The 23-year-old columnist had sparked outrage following controversial… 12/02/2012

  • 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

  • Twitter users stop tweeting to protest ‘censorship’

    Twitter users are being urged to go on strike today in response to the company’s decision to block or remove tweets in specific countries. Previously posts… 28/01/2012

  • EU gets tough on internet data protection

    The EU has unveiled tough new rules on protecting internet users personal data that have far-reaching implications for web giants such as Google and Facebook… 25/01/2012

  • Facebook to improve its privacy policy

    Facebook 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

  • Social media unites Moscow’s youth

    An unidentified man has set the internet ablaze after posting a video which appears to uncover vote rigging in Moscow. The video shows the film maker… 09/12/2011


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