Facebook won't remove murder page: Australia police Australian police said on Monday that social media site Facebook had refused to take down a page containing offensive material about the man accused of murdering Irish woman Jill Meagher.
01 October 2012
Facebook Brazil to pay woman $1,500 over fake profile A Brazilian court said Wednesday it ordered Facebook to pay a woman user $1,500 in moral damages for failing to promptly remove a fake profile containing her name and personal data.
Zuckerberg eyes mobile after Facebook IPO flop Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday the social network giant is focused on mobile devices and should be seen as a smart bet despite a "disappointing" stock market debut.
13 September 2012
Instagram officially part of Facebook Instagram on Thursday became part of Facebook as the social network completed its billion-dollar acquisition of the smartphone photo-sharing service.
08 September 2012
Australian given 21 years jail for Facebook murder A man who befriended a teenage Australian girl on the social media site Facebook before luring her to a secluded spot and killing her was imprisoned for at least 21 years on Friday.
Facebook at half-price: which way now? If you bought Facebook shares in the May IPO and held onto them, by Monday morning you would have lost more than half your investment -- and not see any encouraging signs of making your money back.
23 August 2012
Australia hits out at Facebook over 'racist' page Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has hit out at Facebook over its failure to immediately take down a page that stereotyped Aboriginal people as hopeless petrol-sniffing drunks.
09 August 2012
Facebook shares hit new low on growth worriesFacebook shares on Thursday sank to a new low after the world's leading social network reported a loss of $157 million in its first earnings after its public offering.
27 July 2012
Facebook hopes investors like first earnings Facebook reports its first earnings as a public company Thursday in an announcement that will be closely watched for signs of whether the social media giant can deliver on its financial promise.
27 July 2012
Google, Facebook, eBay launch US Internet lobby Big technology firms including Google, Facebook, eBay and Amazon have joined to create a new lobby group aimed at promoting "an open, innovative and free Internet."
26 July 2012
Nasdaq hikes payout figure for botched Facebook IPO Nasdaq on Friday raised to $62 million the amount of money it will set aside to cover trading losses due to computer glitches that disrupted the launch of Facebook shares onto the market.
21 July 2012
US hearing warns FBI, Facebook on facial recognition A US Senate hearing Wednesday highlighted concern over the growing use of facial recognition technologies, both for law enforcement use and in big social networks like Facebook.
Facebook buys Instagram photo app for $1 bn Facebook announced Monday that it made a billion-dollar-deal to buy the startup behind wildly popular smartphone photo sharing application Instagram.