| Social media harder to resist than alcohol and cigarettes Checking email and social media is more addictive than cigarettes and alcohol, a new study has confirmed.
A team from Chicago University's Booth Business School conducted an experiment using... | |
| Madonna's Super Bowl show gets mixed reactions on Twitter Madonna's performance at the halftime show on Sunday's Super Bowl XLVI generated all kinds of responses on Twitter - ranging from "amazing" to "hating".
According to an analysis by Kanjoya, a San... |
| Pak Muslims urged to shun blasphemous Facebook in favour of Millat alternative Intellectuals and scholars have urged Muslims to use Millat Facebook, a Muslims alternative to the US Facebook, saying they should boycott products of the countries and organizations involved in... |
| Facebook valued at $94 bln in auction of shares on private market Social networking site Facebook had a valuation of at least 94 billion dollars in a recent auction of its shares on the private market.
Yesterday, 100,000 shares of Facebook traded on a private... |
| 'Terrified' Natasha Giggs fears Twitter fiend will target her kids Natasha Giggs, who was left scared for her life after an Internet thug bombarded her with chilling messages on Twitter last week, has installed a panic alarm at her home fearing an attack on her... |
| Social media all a-Twitter with 16M hits Twitter, Facebook and other social media exploded with Super Bowl activity throughout the game.There were a total of 15.8 million Super Bowl-related tweets on Twitter and comments on Facebook last... |
| Facebook courts Madison Avenue About a year ago, when it became clear that taking Facebook public was a matter of when not if, COO Sheryl Sandberg went out and poached Caroline Everson, then global advertising head at... |
| Anonymous exposes FBI hacking call Internet activist group Anonymous published a recording on Friday of a confidential call between FBI agents and London detectives in which the law-enforcement agents discuss action they are taking... |
| BSkyB ventures into pay-TV Bloomberg Businessweek , BSkyB, with more than 10 million subscribers, is facing increased competition from Internet TV offerings after US streaming service, Netflix, started offering movies and TV... |
| ARC Telecoms champions open peering with NAPAfrica ARC Telecoms has committed to open peering by establishing a connection at NAPAfrica, becoming the first business-focused telecoms company in SA to actively back this important initiative. Open... |
| Have removed objectionable content, say Facebook, Google Facebook India today filed its compliance report before the Delhi court which had ordered it and 21 other websites to remove objectionable content from their... |
| Facebook defends its castle (REUTERS/Mariana Bazo) Last Wednesday, Facebook's filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchanges Commission was released to the public. It was the latest step in getting shares of the... |
| Facebook files compliance report before court India on Monday filed its compliance report before the Delhi Court which had ordered it and 21 other websites to remove objectionable content from their... |
| Have removed objectionable content, say Google and Facebook in court New Delhi: Google India and Facebook have told a Delhi court that they have removed objectionable content that has them accused of hosting "anti-religious" and "anti-social" that... |
| Facebook tells IPO banks not to talk about stock offering Shut your pie hole!That’s the message that notoriously press-averse Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has sent around Wall Street recently, telling Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs... |
| Zuma wants to friend you on Facebook South African President Jacob Zuma has urged citizens to make their concerns known using social media tools like Facebook and Twitter ahead of his State of the Nation address on February 9. Photo:... |
| Think Different: The Company Growing Faster Than Facebook in registration for an initial public offering, the question is top of mind for investors in technology stocks. Facebook generated $3.7 billion in revenue in 2011, and a cool $1 billion in net... |
| John Shinal's Tech Investor: Facebook and the future of public markets The company achieved this enviable competitive position before it even filed for an initial offering of stock, which means Facebook didn't need the public stock markets to grow into a company... |
| Facebook will rank Super Bowl commercials' popularity Clint Eastwood yet? Or Ferris Bueller? Or . . . cars. But here's the much (much) larger question: What ads did we see Sunday night that we loved so much that we will post to a friend's... |
| Report: Facebook to start mobile ads by March LONDON — Facebook, the social network giant, is set to begin showing advertisements to users on mobile devices before its $5 billion initial public offering, the Financial Times reported... |
| Facebook's Mobility Challenge Lots of people love their cellphones. Facebook, so far, is not a big fan.
Amid the jaw-dropping financial figures the company revealed last week when it filed for a public offering was an... |
| Facebook Valued at $94 Billion in Auction on Private Market Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc., the social-networking company that’s preparing for an initial public offering, had a valuation of at least $94 billion yesterday in an auction of its shares... |
| Hearing on Facebook, Google case today New Delhi: A district court in Delhi will hear a civil petition filed against Facebook, Google and 20 other online content companies for posting objectionable content on the web.During the previous... |
| Facebook looks to mobile devices for revenue: report LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook, the social network giant, is set to begin showing advertisements to users on mobile devices before its $5 billion initial public offering, the Financial Times reported on... |
| As Facebook Grows up, It Courts Madison Avenue Facebook Inc public was a matter of when not if, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg went out and poached Caroline Everson, then global advertising head... |
| Facebook challenge: Cashing in on mobile devices "We do not currently directly generate any meaningful revenue from the use of Facebook mobile products, and our ability to do so successfully is unproven," the company said in its review of... |
| Fun facts from the Facebook confession So let's say you're hooked. Facebook has registered its initial public offering of shares and you'll be eagerly awaiting the day they hit the... |
| Twitter Vies With YouTube for Super Bowl Fans Surfing IPads Feb. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Aaron Magness plans to watch the Super Bowl this weekend on his 55-inch screen television, with an iPhone in one hand and an iPad at his... |
| Top court launches Twitter service The highest court in the land will now start to "tweet", issuing news about its latest judgements. To launch the new service, the Supreme Court will tweet live coverage of the swearing-in... |
| White Male Facebook Board Prompts Questions Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Most of Facebook Inc.’s more than 800 million users are women. You wouldn’t know it from looking at the board, whose seven directors are all... |
| As Facebook grows up, it courts Madison Avenue (Reuters) - About a year ago, when it became clear that taking Facebook Inc public was a matter of when not if, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg went out and poached Caroline Everson, then... |
| Bikies recruit drug mules on Facebook The Australian Crime Commission, investigating "high-risk" crime groups in South Australia, is monitoring a number of drug recruits groomed through websites such as Facebook and has alerted... |
| Gago furious over Facebook breast ban She plans to write to Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg asking for the ban to be overturned where women upload their own pictures.A group of mothers is planning a protest outside Facebook's Sydney... |
| Assange fate could be revealed on Twitter Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may well find out his fate on Twitter.Britain's Supreme Court has revealed it's about to become a bit more high-tech, as the highest court in the... |
| Super Bowl ad war shifts to social media On Friday, Coca-Cola sent out a small warning over Twitter: the bears are taking over, the company told its followers. "Don’t be alarmed." It’s all part of Coke’s bid... |
| SA Minister urges change to Facebook ban Women should be able to post pictures of themselves breastfeeding their children on Facebook, South Australia's Minister for the Status of Women Gail Gago... |
| Twitter winner glad to be at Super Bowl INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Ebonee Smith used to tease her husband about his phone alerting him to tweets by Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay in the middle of the night. On Sunday afternoon, the teasing... |
| Celebs storm Twitter on #SuperBowl Sunday CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- As the Patriots and Giants geared up for kickoff, celebrities and other notables took to Twitter in force on Super Bowl Sunday to enthuse and prognosticate, to name drop and... |
| Over 3 years later, "deleted" Facebook photos are still online Ars first brought attention to the topic . The company admitted on Friday that its older systems for storing uploaded content "did not always delete images from content delivery networks in a... |
| End of the road for Twitter's fake McCarthy To say it was a surprise when Cormac McCarthy appeared to have turned up on Twitter would be an understatement worthy of the reclusive novelist... |
