Tag: Facebook

Facebook set to beef upInstagram with video?

Speculation abounds that Facebook Thursday will unveil tools to enable its popular Instagram app to take and share short videos. Though analysts say Facebook...

Tatum and Jenna reveal first picture of daughter

Channing Tatum and his wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum debuted their newborn daughter, Everly, on their Facebook accounts on Sunday night. The former ‘Step Up’ co-stars...

Facebook and Microsoft reveal data requests

Several internet companies have struck an agreement with the US government to release limited information about the number of surveillance requests they receive, two...

Facebook Phone now costs $1

Ouch. The “Facebook phone”—aka the HTC First phone running Facebook Home—is now selling for just 99 cents. AT&T was offering the phone for $99...

Facebook co-founder plans unusual wedding

Sean Parker, the billionaire creator of Napster and co-founder of Facebook, is marrying Alexandra Lenas on June 1 in a somewhat unusual wedding: what...

Facebook, Google and Amazon join fight against cancer

The project will allow smartphone users to play to investigate vital scientific data at the same time as playing a mobile game. The first...

Facebook, Google create ‘new Nobel prize’ worth 3 million dollars

FACEBOOK’S and Google’s founders set aside their rivalries to create the “Breakthrough Prize” for science that’s worth more than double the value of the...

Mom: Cops used Facebook to inform of son’s death

An Atlanta mother is peeved after what sounds like a police outreach fail following her son's death. When Rickie Lamb, 30, was hit by...

Indian govt moves to block 55 Facebook pages on Afzal Guru

The Indian government on Tuesday asked internet service providers to block 55 Facebook pages related to Afzal Guru, who has become an icon of...

Facebook says it was a target of sophisticated hacking

Facebook Inc said on Friday hackers had infiltrated some of its employees' laptops in recent weeks, making the world's No.1 social network the latest...

Facebook is a mobile company now: Zuckerberg in Q4 earnings call

Facebook reported its Q4 revenue for the year 2012 which was at $1.585 billion, versus $1.131 billion in the year-ago period. But the...

Website sells fake FB girlfriends

Facebook has radically altered (some would say ruined) the dating scene. Relationships and breakups are now public information, first dates have lost their mystery because...

Facebook rolls out free phone calls

Facebook is quietly rolling out a new feature that could fundamentally change the way you make calls. A free call button has appeared in...

Facebook big announcement: what will it be?

Facebook is remaining tight-lipped about its mystery press event on Tuesday amid speculation the social network will announce its first branded smartphone or search...

Same-name couple calls it quits

Turns out searching Facebook for people with the same name as you isn’t the ideal way to meet a partner after all. Kelly Hildebrandt...

Facebook tests steep fees to message strangers

Social Networking website ‘Facebook’ confirmed on Friday that it was dabbling with charging members as much as $100 to get messages to the inboxes...

Teen’s post on facebook leads to arrest

If there’s a surefire way to get caught for committing an offense these days, it’s airing the details on social media. Jacob Cox-Brown, an...