According to a news release, social networking giants Facebook have initiated legal action against a group of technical developers who have been found to be selling information about Facebook users to brokers, in order to enable them to place targeted adverts to consumers. (more…)

American Telecommunications company AT&T have angered a number of Facebook users, following the issue of a supposed thank you letter, which in fact was a ploy to elicit feedback from users. (more…)

Following the release of Tony Blair’s long-anticipated autobiography ‘A Journey’, Facebook members have gone all out to disrupt sales of the memoirs. (more…)

An open alternative to Facebook will be launched on 15 September, the developers of the new project have announced. The site is described as a social networking service which enables members to have a much greater level of control over their privacy options than Facebook. (more…)

An announcement this week from social networking giants Facebook sees the launch of a new smartphone function called ‘Places’. (more…)

eMarketer have released details of a new report which states that advertising revenue from social networking giants Facebook is set to rise to the point where it passes one billion pounds for the first time, next year. (more…)

Following calls from a number of Facebook members to enhance security on the site for vulnerable members, the social networking giant implemented a panic button. (more…)

Ron Bowes, the security consultant responsible for publishing 100 million Facebook user details online, has released a statement explaining his motivation behind the breach of privacy. (more…)

Approximately one hundred million people who subscribe to social networking giant Facebook have found themselves embroiled in a publicity row this week. A security consultant, Ron Bowles, developed a piece of code to extract personal data from profiles on Facebook, collating them all in a single document and then publishing them online. (more…)

Facebook has long hit the news for its controversial approach to online data privacy, with many people criticising the application for abusing users’ personal information. Earlier this month, Facebook came under fire by German officials, following claims that the social networking giants has gathered personal information from non-Facebook subscribers. (more…)

As some point in the next week, social networking giants Facebook will be achieving a major milestone, when the number of users for the site hits 500 million. (more…)

A recent announcement by Reuters has suggested that the online networking site Facebook made a profit in 2009, for the first time. The growing success of the site has meant it generated more revenue than was initially predicted by Facebook’s own board members, and industry analysts. (more…)

Yahoo! is set to launch new features that will push the integration of Yahoo.com and Yahoo! Mail with Facebook, the main aim behind the new features will be to encourage users to post actions taken on Yahoo! sites and other associated services – such as photography favourite Flickr – onto their Facebook wall. (more…)

Facebook, now officially the largest social networking site on the internet, and Zynga, the company behind the incredibly popular Facebook game FarmVille, have fallen out over money issues. (more…)