After several weeks of negotiations, Twitter and Facebook have failed to come to an agreement about a possible acquisition of the micro-blogging service by the social network.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, was quite impressed by Twitter’s speed of ‘status updates’ and its growth rate since 2006, when it was launched. Thwitter currently has about 6 […]

A woman aged 34, residing in South London, was murdered by her husband earlier this year after he saw her marital status on Facebook change to ’single’.
BBC News reports that the woman, named Emma Forrester was killed by her husband Wayne Forrester, 34, who has been sentenced to a minimum of 14 years behind bars.
According […]

Microsoft made an investment of $240 million in Facebook, almost exactly one year ago. Facebook and Microsoft Live Search have now launched their first joint application.
Facebook users in the U.S.A. will now be able to ‘Search Facebook’ or ‘Search the Web’. Relevant ads from Microsoft adCenter will be shown along with the search results.
Henceforth when […]

A survey of social networks conducted recently by comScore has shown that Facebook is now the largest social network in the world, after having overtaken rival network MySpace.
Facebook also continues to hold the honour of being the fastest growing social network in the world. As of June this year, they had 132 million unique […]

The two largest social networks, MySpace and Facebook, which have become a steady part of youth culture in the West, are yet to make waves in Japan.
In fact, according to a post on TechCrunch, a local social network, Mixi.jp, has beaten both of them, and is currently the 6th most popular site in Japan, while […]

Microsoft and Facebook have reportedly come to an agreement and signed a deal that will bring Microsoft’s Live Search and Advertising operations to Facebook.
The exact date for the launch of this new project is yet to be decided, but is expected to be by the end of this year.
Microsoft already has strong ties with Facebook, […]

Last year, social network Facebook opened itself up to third party applications developers. Due to this move, they have been facing a problem - the user profile page, which used to be neat and clean is now very cluttered, and looks similar to that of their competitor, MySpace.
Facebook has now decided to take matters in […]

The results of a worldwide survey, conducted by comScore, are out, and they show that for the first time ever, Facebook has raced ahead of MySpace, in the number of unique visitors both sites had in the month of May.
It actually began in April, when the two were running neck and neck, with Facebook having […]

A new craze has caught on among teenagers in U.K. Google Earth, which has high-quality satellite images of most metropolitan areas, is being misused by over-smart teens, to locate houses that have swimming pools and gatecrash to throw pool parties.
Once they have zeroed in on an appropriate location, they organise a pool party at that […]