Facebook mobile use surges, but stock falls
Facebook is increasing its revenue from mobile with more users now accessing the social network via smartphones and tablets than from personal computers, but Wall Street remains unimpressed.
Facebook search taps into friends
Facebook's new "graph search" feature is designed to take straight-forward questions and tap into users' circle of friends for answers.
Facebook to charge for some message delivery
Facebook on Thursday began testing the feasibility of charging to guarantee that messages from strangers make it into inboxes of intended recipients at the social network.
Love online challenges Pakistan taboos
Sania was just a schoolgirl when she logged onto an Internet chat room and met a young college student called Mohammad. They fell in love and decided to get married.
Brief Facebook outage after infrastructure change
Facebook was unreachable briefly on Monday after the social network made a change to part of its infrastructure dealing with routing traffic to its online address.
Facebook touts mobile gains as earnings beat forecast
Facebook said it was making strong gains in tapping the mobile advertising market as the world's leading social network turned in better-than-expected third quarter earnings Tuesday.
Facebook hits billion users amid revenue worries
Facebook on Thursday celebrated eclipsing the billion-member mark, touting its mission to make the world more social while investors wondered how the service would cash in on its popularity.
Facebook shares hit new low on growth worries
Facebook 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.
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.
President Nazarbayev calls for stronger social security network for families
Among possible measures there are kindergarden expenses compensation schemes and tax benefits.
Russia’s Odnoklassniki (Classmates) social network to run Kazakh-language version
Odnoklassniki.ru is ranked #66 in the world according to the three-month Alexa traffic rankings.
SalamWorld Islamic network to be launched in 2012 in 8 languages
Global Islamic social network called SalamWorld with interface in 8 languages will be launched in April 2012.
Karim Massimov’s Press Service can be a direct competitor to Kazakhstan’s journalists
The PM’S Press Service already makes sure his work is widely covered in social networks.
Kazakhstan announces education and healthcare budgets for 2012-2014
2012 social security budget is to grow 12.5% against 2011.