Facebook said it had agreed to buy advertising technology from Microsoft that measures the effectiveness of ads on its website, which should help in its fight with Google for online advertising...
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Launched in February 2004, Facebook is a social networking service founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Early investors include Microsoft and Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka- shing, through his namesake charitable foundation. Facebook’s US$16 billion initial public offering in May 2012 generated huge investor interest although the shares subsequently slumped in price.
23 Feb 2013
Facebook allowed users on Friday to make free calls to friends at the leading social network using its application tailored for iPhones or iPads.
20 Feb 2013
Google’s stock price topped US$800 (HK$6,204) for the first time amid renewed confidence in the company’s ability to reap steadily higher profits from its dominance of Internet search and...
20 Feb 2013
Unknown hackers infected the computers of some Apple workers when they visited a website for software developers that had been infected with malicious software. The malware had been designed to...
17 Feb 2013
Facebook said none of its users' data was compromised in the attack, which occurred after a handful of employees visited a website last month that infected their machines with so-called malware,...
Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer said she planned to focus on mobile applications and strengthen ties with Facebook to bolster turnaround efforts at the biggest US internet portal.
Zynga, the one-time Silicon Valley darling that has been wrestling with a months-long exodus of online gamers, reported an unexpected fourth-quarter profit on Tuesday after embracing steep cost...
More than half of US Facebook members have taken breaks from the leading social network, with the top reason being they are just too busy, according to a new study.
Using the internet to provide customer service has become a common tactic for businesses, a survey shows.
Authorities in Vietnam have lifted a one-year suspension handed down to an eighth-grade student for posting a parody of a speech by revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh on Facebook.
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