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Unveiling Apple’s new music-focused social network Ping in September, chief executive Steve Jobs described it as “sort of like Facebook and Twitter meet iTunes.” Facebook and Ping have yet to meet but Twitter and Ping got together on Thursday. Unveiling Apple’s new music-focused social network Ping in September, chief executive Steve Jobs described it as [...]

A fair goer plays a game by Electronic Arts (EA) at an entertainment fair in 2008. Electronic Arts said Tuesday that it has reached a five-year agreement with Facebook that calls for the social network’s virtual currency to be the exclusive payment method for EA games. Electronic Arts said Tuesday that it has reached a [...]

The logo of social networking website ‘Facebook’ is displayed on a computer screen. Republicans will have to wait until Tuesday to find out if they make the big gains many expect in the US Congress but they have already beaten the Democrats in another arena — Facebook. Republicans will have to wait until Tuesday to [...]

The home page for Facebook founder Mark Zuckerman. Facebook took more steps to stop third-party applications from sharing identifying information about users with advertising and Internet tracking companies. Facebook took more steps to stop third-party applications from sharing identifying information about users with advertising and Internet tracking companies. (c) 2010 AFP

I am not the kind of person who needs to read the help pages on Web sites–at least most of the time. But the same cannot be said for a lot of folks I know. In fact just this past weekend I was showing someone in their late-60s (who is quite smart, I might add) [...]

Many popular applications on Facebook are violating the social network’s rules and transmitting identifying information about users to advertising and Internet tracking companies, The Wall Street Journal reported. (c) 2010 AFP

Social networking website developer Ning is hoping it can generate momentum with the release of a new set of tools that lets even technophobes build websites that create online communities and tap into smartphone applications and software. Bands, politicians, charities and more are turning to Ning to imbue websites with the kinds of social networking [...]

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, seen on October 6. Facebook on Thursday was getting kudos for giving members better control of their information but dinged for letting people be thrown into “groups” without their permission. Facebook on Thursday was getting kudos for giving members better control of their information but dinged for letting people [...]

(AP) — Facebook says unspecified site issues caused the social-networking site to be slow or unavailable for some of its 500 million users. ©2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt on Friday said that Microsoft’s Bing search engine was the company’s main threat, not Facebook or Apple. (c) 2010 AFP