Social networking giants Facebook has examined  at all the check-ins made on Facebook as well as third-party apps that use the Facebook API. Using this data, they determined the top “social landmarks” across 25 different highly social cites. These “highly social” cities include Dublin, Chicago, Toronto, Berlin, Melbourne, Buenos Aires, and more from nearly all corners [...]

Ever since the world Olympics fans have acquired the tickets for summer Olympic games, the games are brought by the world biggest social network Facebook. Facebook launched a new page Explore London 2012, the online gateway helps the Olympic fans to keep up to date with latest Olympic news feeds, athletes, teams and sports that [...]

Nearly 23% internet users spend their online time social networking. Facebook leads the way with a heady 62.83% share, far ahead of YouTube, Twitter and Pinterest. Consumers around the planet use the World Wide Web to find information, buy and sell products, and, most significantly, to interact with each other. The web contains more than  eight billion [...]

It’s been said that nearly 42% of employers decline  o any use of social media in the workplace?  Two out of every five young workers rate access to social media at work above receiving a higher salary, this presents an obvious disconnect. An employer’s approach towards social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook varies from industry to industry. Retail [...]

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg married to his long time girlfriend  Priscilla Chan a day after Facebook finally went public. Zuckerberg’s marriage to Priscilla Chan took place in the back yard of Zuckerberg’s home in Palo Alto. 100 or so people attended. The wedding had been planned for months and the couple was waiting for Chan to finish [...]

According to Bloomberg social networking giants Facebook is being sued for $15 billion over alleged claims over a claim that privacy was breached by tracking internet usage. The complaint is filed in San Jose, California, and combined 21 individual cases. In recent times Facebook has been under the spotlight over  privacy and how well it protects the data [...]

Social networking giants Facebook $1 billion acquisition of photo sharing app Instagram could be delayed with the federal regulators looking into the social network’s acquisition of Instagram. British newspaper FT is revealing that the  FTC is investigating the deal for possible antitrust issues. Given that, from what we learned exclusively a few weeks ago.  The Instagram deal could be [...]

Facebook’s recent acquisition of the most popular photo-sharing application Instagram has 50 million users and adding up 5 million new users every week according to API. At the beginning of April Instagram had 30 million users however on April 13 it went up to 40 million users. It’s been an amazing achievement for an app [...]

World’s largest social networking site Facebook has launched a new life saving tool.  Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg on ABC News’ “Good Morning America”. Facebook now  allows U.S. and U.K. Users include a life story on their profile pages, and offers a link urging users to sign up for official organ donation [...]

Taiwanese Smartphone makers HTC and Facebook are now working closely to develop a customized “platform exclusive to Facebook to enable and integrate all functions available on the social networking site” if sources talking to DigiTimes are to be believed. Different from existing Facebook-enabled handsets, such as HTC’s own ChaCha and Salsa, the new Facebook phone will “have [...]