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Facebook users know the "newsfeed" technology well--the constantly updating page which appears when members log in to the social networking site. As of Tuesday, social networking fans will be seeing... Read more...

A lawsuit has been filed against Facebook, charging that it modified its privacy settings, reducing rather than increasing, privacy protections. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in the... Read more...

Facebook has unveiled a new PHP platform called HipHop for PHP that it says tremendously improves the performance of the PHP scripting language. HipHop for PHP works by transforming PHP code at the... Read more...

The importance of social networks was underscored last week in the wake of the devastating earthquake in Haiti. It became a major topic on Facebook. It was such a big topic that Facebook mistakenly... Read more...

Employees use many tools to get their work done. Laptops and mobile apps are helpful, and this year they may need to plug into Facebook and Twitter. With the growing popularity of these social... Read more...

Facebook and McAfee, a leading maker of anti-virus software, are partnering to fight a common foe: Malware that has been attacking Facebook in far greater numbers as the social networking site grows... Read more...

Is social media so hot that it will burn itself out? There's one site out there that's banking on it; it's called Web 2.0 Suicide Machine, and it offers to help visitors for free. Through the site... Read more...

There's nothing like a little competition to bring out the best in all of us. LinkedIn has been around for a long time, but it's being overshadowed by Facebook and other social networking sites. Now... Read more...

Security solutions firm F-Secure Malaysia has warned of the need for greater vigilance when it comes to the use of social networking. F-Secure Malaysia senior security response manager, Chia Wing... Read more...

Facebook is changing its privacy policy, making it more transparent and adding plenty of video and other pages so people can understand how it works. With over 300 million people using Facebook, the... Read more...