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Facebook page for its founder Mark Zuckerman is seen in this file photo. Facebook has set some users to squinting by shrinking text size on pages of the world’s most popular online social networking service. Facebook set some users to squinting by shrinking text size on pages of the world’s most popular online social networking [...]

The logo of social networking website Facebook is displayed on a computer screen. Facebook on Thursday launched Friendship Pages at which online pals can stroll virtual memory lanes that chronicle what they have shared at the world’s top online social networking service. Facebook on Thursday launched Friendship Pages at which online pals can stroll virtual [...]

Cisco on Monday warned that crooks have inundated LinkedIn with emails crafted to trick members of the career-oriented social networking service into downloading software that loots bank accounts. Cisco on Monday warned that crooks have inundated LinkedIn with emails crafted to trick members of the career-oriented social networking service into downloading software that loots bank [...]

Some Facebook users were shut out of the social networking service on Thursday as the website was beset by technical troubles for the second day in a row. Some Facebook users were shut out of the social networking service on Thursday as the website was beset by technical troubles for the second day in a [...]

Google morning raised the stakes in the search space on Wednesday with the introduction of Google Instant, which will provide faster, more intelligent searching and results on the company’s site. The intelligence built into the Google Instant service responds to predicted queries based on just a few keystrokes. Google Instant will become part of the [...]

Google Wave, the social networking service canceled by Google, will morph into an application bundle for real-time collaboration, a Google engineer said this week. In a blog post, Google Software Engineer Alex North, from the Google Wave Team, said the company had received many inquiries about the future of the open source code and Wave [...]

Google has made its fifth acquisition since the start of August, this time scooping up SocialDeck, a company that develops games that people can play against friends using iPhones, BlackBerry devices, or via Facebook on a PC. Most of Google’s recent acquisitions have been related to social networking and games, fueling speculation that the company [...]

A little more than a year after the service was launched, Google is pulling the plug on its Google Wave social-networking service, the company said Wednesday. “Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked,” wrote Urs Hölzle, Google senior vice president for operations, in a blog post. As a result of the [...]

LinkedIn, the social networking service for business professionals, said Wednesday it is buying a startup specializing in digging valuable information from mountains of digital data. LinkedIn, the social networking service for business professionals, said Wednesday it is buying a startup specializing in digging valuable information from mountains of digital data. (c) 2010 AFP

The logo of social networking website ‘Facebook’ is displayed on a computer screen in London. Hackers are weighing in on the Facebook privacy controversy with creations that help people strengthen privacy or empty profile pages at the world’s leading social networking service. Hackers are weighing in on the Facebook privacy controversy with creations that help [...]