NEW YORK Dogs, cats, horses, toasters: You name it, it has a Facebook page. Facebook now has one billion users - but ten per cent of them are not human, according to new research. At least 100 million of Facebook’s ‘monthly active users’ are pets, brands and companies - ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook and Twitter launched applications for Google glasses as developers rushed to learn more about tailoring software for the Internet-linked eyewear yet to hit the market.“Built by Facebook, this app allows you to upload photos from Google Glass directly to your Facebook ...

LONDONDaily MailFacebook and other social networking sites can actually send you mad, according to scientists.The researchers have linked psychotic episodes in patients to internet addiction and delusions caused by virtual relationships cultivated on social networking sites. Although all the ...

WASHINGTON HP - An attempt to ban US bosses from asking employees to hand over their Facebook login details has been blocked by Congress. A last minute alteration to the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) that would have prevented employers demanding that ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Electronic Arts on Monday announced that it will “retire” some Facebook games that seem to have fallen out of favor with players at the leading social network. EA said that ‘The Sims Social, ‘SimCity Social’ and ‘Pet Society’ will be ...

New York (GN)Mark Zuckerberg has appeared in an advert for the new Facebook Home app. The ad shows a Facebook engineer distracted by a screaming goat and a friend playing squash as he plays with the new Android-only app during Zuckerberg’s ‘Launch Day’ speech. “Guys, this is ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP)Facebook unveils its "home" on the Android smartphone Thursday, a move expected to tie the leading social network's services tightly into mobile software. Invitations to a press event at Facebook's main campus in the Silicon Valley city of Menlo Park rekindled talk of a "Facebook ...

MENLO PARK  - Facebook began transforming the stream of updates from friends at home pages into a “personalized newspaper” with news ranging from the personal to the global. The News Feed on home pages at the social network was revamped to get rid of clutter and present ...

FACEBOOK’S and Google’s founders set aside their rivalries to create the “Breakthrough Prize” for science that’s worth more than double the value of the Nobel prize.Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his ...

 A BOSTON father and his 14-year-old daughter have recently made the headlines after the man posted a photo of a Facebook Deactivation Agreement that states the girl will receive $200 if she doesn’t log into her Facebook account for the next five months.Facebook addiction is one of the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Facebook confirmed Friday it was dabbling with charging members as much as $100 to get messages to the inboxes of strangers such as social network co-founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg.“We are testing some extreme price points to see what works to filter spam,” ...

FACEBOOK has begun testing the feasibility of charging to guarantee that messages from strangers make it into inboxes of intended recipients at the social network. The Facebook Messages test, which is currently limited to the US, lets a sender pay $1 to make sure an electronic missive is routed to ...

SAN FRANCISCO  - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is donating half a billion dollars in Facebook stock to a Silicon Valley charity, his second major donation since committing to giving away most of his wealth. The 28-year old co-founder of the world’s largest online social ...

FACEBOOK has shut down a page set up by the Pakistani Taliban to recruit enthusiasts to write for a quarterly magazine and to edit video. The Umar Media TTP page, which had more than 270 likes at the time it was shut down, was created in September and had just a handful of messages written in ...

A GENERATION of children risks growing up with obsessive personalities, poor self-control, short attention spans and little empathy because of an addiction to social networking websites such as Twitter, a leading UK neuroscientist has warned. Young people’s brains are failing to develop ...

FACEBOOK has developed a new ‘want’ button as part of its push towards a bigger role in e-commerce.The system is being trialled this week, along with a ‘collect’ button that allows Facebook members to create virtual lists of desired items.TechCrunch reports that the move ...

NEW YORK (AFP) - Facebook said Thursday it now has more than a billion users, giving the world’s biggest social network a major milestone despite a disastrous stock market introduction. Co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement, saying the number is “humbling. ...

LONDON  - Whatever the royal family may think of his exploits in Las Vegas, many Britons can barely hide their support for Prince Harry, posting naked pictures of themselves online in tribute. A Facebook group entitled “Support Prince Harry with a naked salute!” - featuring people ...

FACEBOOK has revealed that it believes there are now more than 83 million fake users on the social network. In company filings published this week, it said 8.7% of its 955 million active users might not be real.Duplicate profiles made up 4.8% of the users, user-misclassified accounts amounted to ...

FACEBOOK has started rolling out a tool that allows users to change their comments on the site after posting them.Many people find that they have left a glaring typo or mistake in a comment on someone’s Facebook status update. Facebook knows that, and so has now introduced the ability to edit ...

NEW YORK - The horrendous stock market debut for Facebook suggests investors are not ready to jump in and create another tech bubble despite big expectations for social media, analysts say.Facebook closed out its first full week of trade with a loss of 16 percent from its offering price of $38, in ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg capped the week of a lifetime, changing his own status to married Saturday after wedding Priscilla Chan just a day after his company went public, he announced.Zuckerberg posted a wedding picture with his bride, where else but on his Facebook ...

NEW YORK - Facebook saw roller-coaster action Friday in its first trading day as the social network with some 900 million members made one of the most eagerly awaited market debuts in history.Facebook shares, priced at $38 on Thursday in the largest-ever initial public offering (IPO) for a ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Facebook on Tuesday unveiled an initiative to use the vast social network to connect organ donors with people who need life-saving transplants.Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement and became one of the first Facebook users to sign up on the social network to be ...

Facebook Inc. is preparing its initial public offering for May in what is shaping up to be the largest-ever U.S. Internet offering, the Wall Street Journal said citing people familiar with the matter.The social networking giant suspended trading of its shares on the secondary market this week, as ...

HARARE  - A court in Zimbabwe has sentenced a 17-year-old boy to be caned after he posted a picture of a woman on Facebook with a caption that called her a prostitute, state media said Monday.  The Herald newspaper said magistrate Tinashe Ndokera found the boy guilty of criminal insult, ...

JAKARTA - “Angry Birds”, the most-downloaded mobile app of 2011, was catapulted to the world of Facebook on Tuesday in a bid by its Finnish maker Rovio to get one billion people playing the addictive game.True to the game’s quirky theme, a bird flung at a pig on a giant screen ...

STOCKHOLM - Twins born in Indonesia and put up separately for adoption, have been reunited after finding each other on Facebook, living just 40 kilometres (25 miles) apart in southern Sweden, three decades later.Non-identical twins Emilie Falk and Lin Backman — strangers until last year ...

FACEBOOK users have been given the opportunity to post one last message on the site after their death thanks to a new app. ‘If I Die’, created by Israel-based company Willook, allows individuals to write posts or record videos that can be published posthumously. Three ...

PADANG, Indonesia  - An Indonesian civil servant who declared himself an atheist on Facebook was arrested and is now facing jail for blasphemy after being attacked by an angry mob, police said Friday.Alexander An, 30, who wrote “God doesn’t exist” on his Facebook page, was ...