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Facebook will add Skype video chat to its pages, aiming to spice up the appeal of the world’s No. 1 Internet social networking service...

Facebook, the world's biggest social networking website, is set to launch a new feature next week, possibly in the mobile or tablet arena, its...

A vengeful Australian man who wrote on his Facebook page he was "bout to kill ma kid" minutes before stabbing his two-year-old daughter to...

Online search giant Google has launched a new social networking website in its latest attempt to take on Facebook, which now claims more than...

Joe Lockhart, a former press secretary for President Bill Clinton, is joining Facebook to oversee the company’s policy, international and corporate communications efforts. Lockhart, who...

Recording videos of friends and posting it online has become something of a common sport. But now you can do it without them even...

Facebook has eroded the online privacy of millions of its users by switching on facial recognition technology without telling them, a technology expert said...

Lahore High Court (LHC) Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed on Wednesday adjourned the hearing of a petition for today (Thursday) seeking a permanent ban on...

Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry directed the federal government on Friday to move the United Nations (UN) and the...

The first injunction specifically banning the publication of information on Facebook and Twitter was issued yesterday amid growing fears about the culture of secrecy...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday sought until May 10, the complete of record of all previous petitions filed against social networking website...

NEW YORK - Who came up with the idea for Facebook? It's always been a shady story. Mark Zuckerberg, the company's wunderkind CEO, has said that the social network was his own creation, something he designed and built while he was a student at Harvard.
Nobody really believes it's that simple. Zuckerberg's email and instant messages from the time suggest that he may have found inspiration, money, and source code from a number of other people. In 2008, Facebook settled a lawsuit

BUENOS AIRES - Following tens of millions of other social media fans worldwide, Barcelona midfield star Lionel Messi set up a Facebook page on Wednesday.
In contrast to his electronic peers, however, within just a few hours his page had attracted more than six million followers. Such popularity warranted a speedy response from the Argentina international.
"Welcome to everyone and thanks for all the messages you have been sending me. Now we shall be closer with Facebook,"

WASHINGTON - Facebook on Tuesday launched a media resource page to help journalists use the social network as a reporting tool and better connect with their audience.
The "Journalists on Facebook" page is intended to be "an ongoing resource for the growing number of reporters using Facebook to find sources, interact with readers, and advance stories," Justin Osofsky, Facebook's director of media partnerships, said in a blog post.
"The page will provide journalists with best

WASHINGTON - Warner Bros. is bringing movie rentals to Facebook, the first Hollywood studio to turn to the fast-growing social network as an online platform for its films.
"The Dark Knight," the 2008 Batman thriller directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, will be the first movie offered for rental on Facebook, the studio said, and can be watched at facebook.com/darkknight.
The rental fee is 30 Facebook Credits, or $3, and the movie can be viewed unlimited

WASHINGTON - Facebook is revamping a platform designed to power the frequently unruly comments space on websites. The Palo Alto, California, social networking giant unveiled an updated Comments Box plug-in on Tuesday that websites can use to replace the system they currently use to display comments from readers.
Online publishers have long debated how to bring a measure of civility to their comments forums, which are frequently populated by insults and off-topic ramblings by

LAHORE - Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Monday disposed of a petition seeking a ban on social networking site Facebook and other websites for displaying blasphemous caricatures and anti-Islam material. The court announced the verdict after Deputy Attorney General Naveed Inayat Malik informed the court that the federal government is taking all steps to block anti-Islam websites. He said that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and the