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A cyclist rides by a sign outside of the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, in March. Google is holding talks with online game developers as part of its bid to build a social-networking service that could compete with Facebook, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Google is holding talks with online game developers as part of [...]

If you’re toting around an
iPhone in one pocket and a bulging wallet stuffed with loyalty cards in the other, let us respectfully say this: you’re doing it wrong. With only a bit of leg work, you can lighten your load by scanning or manually adding your cards for your supermarkets, book stores, pet shops, sports [...]

The number of people using Facebook hit the 500 million mark on Wednesday, meaning one in every 14 people on the planet has now signed up to online social-networking service.

The number of people using Facebook hit the 500 million mark on Wednesday, meaning one in every 14 people on the planet has now signed up [...]

Speculation is spreading around the Web that Google is building a site that could be a Facebook-killer.
The talk spreading virally online is that Google is developing a social networking service, dubbed Google Me. The rumor started to fly after Digg founder Kevin Rose posted a tweet Saturday, saying, “Ok, umm, huge rumor: Google to launch [...]

Popular Web applications Twitter and Google Calendar are having performance and availability problems, the companies said separately on Wednesday.
Google Calendar users started reporting difficulties logging into the service on Tuesday in its official discussion forum, but the company didn’t acknowledge the issue until around 11 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time on Wednesday.
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Google on Friday released Web traffic data indicating that Facebook is king when it comes to online visitors despite criticism about privacy at the social-networking service.

Google on Friday released Web traffic data indicating that Facebook is king when it comes to online visitors despite criticism about privacy at the social-networking service.

(c) 2010 AFP

The logo of social networking website ‘Facebook’ is displayed on a computer screen. The founder of the website, Mark Zuckerberg, has said the service has made blunders that it hopes to fix with coming changes to its privacy controls.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Sunday said the social networking service has made blunders that it hopes [...]

The Internet homepage of the community website Facebook. Facebook on Saturday said it plans to simplify privacy controls at the popular social-networking service to appease critics.

Facebook on Saturday said it plans to simplify privacy controls at the popular social-networking service to appease critics.

(c) 2010 AFP

Perhaps the most damning critique of Facebook’s recent controversial moves has been that a group of programmers have been raising money to create an alternative–and people are donating.
Diaspora, a social-networking project hatched by four New York University programming students in their early 20s, is set to hit $100,000 on Thursday in its quest to raise [...]

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the opening keynote address at the f8 Developer Conference in San Francisco, California. Zuckerberg kicked off the the one day conference for developers that features breakout sessions on the future of social technologies.

Facebook on Wednesday set out to spread its influence across the Internet by weaving its social [...]