Growing up online, young people assume their inner circle knows their business. The "new privacy" is about controlling how many people know--not if anyone knows.
AP | VINNEE TONG | Posted 12.17.2007 | Business
Match.com, an old standby of online dating, wants to make some new connections among the fast-growing number of Facebook users worldwide. Dating Web ...
Toronto Star | GREGORY BONNELL | Posted 12.16.2007 | Business
A Canadian company specializing in Internet porn is being sued by Facebook amid allegations it hacked the popular social networking website's computer...
Time | Bill Saporito | Posted 12.12.2007 | Business
#1. The Public Invests in Blackstone Group It was only a matter of time before the private equity firms let the public in on the game -- for an infla...
Christine Hassler | Posted 12.11.2007 | Living
All of us are becoming far too reliant on our gadgets and starved for real human connection. To anyone reading who has been afflicted by or is an afflicter of cowardly cyber communication, take a stand for human connection!
Shana Ting Lipton | Posted 12.09.2007 | Media
On Facebook, I felt like Hester Prynn in cyberia; my scarlet letters branding me with my political proclivities.
AP | Posted 12.09.2007 | Business
Syrian authorities have blocked Facebook, the popular Internet hangout, over what seems to be fears of Israeli "infiltration" of Syrian social network...
AP | Posted 12.07.2007 | Media
Syrian authorities have blocked Facebook, the popular Internet hangout, over what seems to be fears of Israeli "infiltration" of Syrian social network...
Wall Street Journal | VAUHINI VARA | Posted 12.05.2007 | Business
After weeks of criticism over a new advertising program that was perceived as a privacy threat, Facebook Inc. has tweaked its privacy settings and off...
Reuters | Posted 12.04.2007 | Business
Technology and entertainment topped Google Inc's searches in 2007, with the iPhone grabbing the No. 1 slot on a list of the fastest-rising search term...
AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 12.03.2007 | Media
Facebook Inc. has raised $60 million from Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing, adding to the list of financial heavyweights backing the online hangout's...
All Things Digital | Kara Swisher | Posted 11.30.2007 | Business
While a lot of people were beginning to doubt Facebook's ability to raise more money after getting a lofty $15 billion valuation following a $240 mill...
Reuters | Yinka Adegoke | Posted 11.30.2007 | Business
Facebook is good for keeping up with high-flying buddies, MySpace is for teenage offspring and the BlackBerry is a full-time addiction, according to t...
Shelly Palmer | Posted 11.30.2007 | Media
It's one thing to ask someone to join your promotional army. Conscripting them without their consent is something else entirely.
AP | Michael Liedtke | Posted 11.29.2007 | Business
Seeking to keep the peace in its popular online hangout, Facebook Inc. has overhauled a new advertising system that sparked privacy complaints by turn...
Valleywag | Posted 11.29.2007 | Business
Is Mark Zuckerberg's heart two sizes too small? Is Facebook ruining Christmas? Ask Tasha Valdez and the answer is duh. Facebook's privacy-invading Bea...
Business Week | Catherine Holahan | Posted 11.29.2007 | Business
In the wake of mounting criticism, Facebook executives are discussing changes to a controversial advertising tool that publicizes users' Web activitie...
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 11.25.2007 | Media
Facebook, the popular social networking site, has become a full-fledged platform for communicating, sharing and advertising. ABC News is betting that ...
Los Angeles Times | Jessica Guynn | Posted 11.21.2007 | Media
Liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org launched a campaign Tuesday on Facebook against Facebook, raising privacy concerns for users of the fast-growing soc...
Anna Papadopoulos | Posted 11.20.2007 | Media
Privacy groups are at it again. This time they are going after social networking sites like Facebook, filing complaints about the network's new social-targeting advertising platform.
Business Week | Bruce Einhorn | Posted 11.20.2007 | Business
Over the past few months, investors have speculated about how Facebook would gain a foothold in China. Ever since the U.S. social networking company's...
Guardian Media | Jemima Kiss | Posted 11.20.2007 | Business
To put it concisely, targeted advertising is crucial to pushing forward a powerful, far more efficient advertising model that can fund media companies...
Charles H. Green | Posted 11.18.2007 | Media
The gist of Facebook's idea is to allow Big Advertisers in to make "friends" of existing users. As one wag put it, "So, it's like spamming your friends?"
David Weinberger | Posted 11.14.2007 | Media
Facebook is getting privacy right where privacy is taken as a matter of information transfer. But it is getting privacy wrong as a norm.
Newsweek | Sarah Elkins | Posted 11.10.2007 | Business
Greg Benedetto believes in the old adage "the customer comes first." He worked for Canada's HMV record chain for two years as a teenager and, in that ...
Last night, John McCain's campaign manager Rick Davis...
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
I must admit that listening to McCain answer Pastor Rick Warren's questions...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
RENO, Nev. — So much for hugging in church. A day after Barack Obama and John McCain exchanged...
Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps, Michael Phelps. With all the play his name gets right now,...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
As much as I dreaded turning 30, believe it or not I'm actually starting to...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
BURKE, N.Y. -- Everywhere that Janet and Ken Tacy...
Ari Melber | Posted 12.20.2007 | Media