Facebook is claiming a victory in a vote to decide on changes to its terms and conditions even though only 0.03 per cent of users voted on changes. A big row broke out in February when Facebook tried to change its ...Read More
BROMONT, Quebec - Photos on Facebook have cost a Canadian woman her long-term sick leave benefits. Nathalie Blanchard has been on leave from her job at IBM in Bromont, Quebec, for the last year. The Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported she was diagnosed ...Read More
Canadian woman loses benefits over Facebook photo
BROMONT, Quebec — A Canadian woman on long-term sick leave for depression says she lost her benefits because her insurance agent found photos of her on Facebook in which she appeared to be having ...Read More
BROMONT, Quebec -- A Canadian woman on long-term sick leave for depression says she lost her benefits because her insurance agent found photos of her on Facebook in which she appeared to be having fun. Nathalie Blanchard has been on leave ...Read More
Retailers are joining the Facebook and Twitter bandwagons for this year’s Black Friday.
Companies from Staples to Toys “R” Us are using the social networking sites to give loyal customers the first looks at sales and other deals for Black Friday, ...Read More
Windows only: Fishbowl, the Facebook client demoed at Microsoft's introduction to Silverlight 4, is now available for download—and it adds quite a few new desktop features to the Facebook experience, including badges, a mini news feed, and more.
At first glance, ...Read More
Qwisk, which is launching today at the Real-Time CrunchUp, is an innovative new way to add a social twist to your browser. The site, which is a product of Y Combinator-funded company Socialbrowse, connects with you with your friends on ...Read More
Adding Twitter and Facebook to game consoles is a good idea, but both Sony and Microsoft are missing the point. These social networks are tools that can be used for all kinds of things. Their usefulness to gamers doesn't spawn from ...Read More
Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack appears to have no problem financial regulators. In fact, Mack, speaking at a financial journalist panel held by Bloomberg last night, said that banks "cannot control ourselves." The government, Mack said, "has to step in ...Read More
Verizon rankled AT&T with their "There's A Map For That" ads that took aim at AT&T's spotty service, and mocked the iPhone app tagline, "there's an app for that." AT&T responded by slapping Verizon with a lawsuit, and has also just ...Read More
Microsoft announced the availability of Silverlight 4 in beta at its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) today. Some of the new features include more fluid animations, Webcam, microphone and printing support, 200 percent faster start times than Silverlight 3, deep zoom ...Read More
Salesforce.com is offering the capability to integrate Facebook and Twitter into its sales and customer support offerings, another sign the company is making a full-shift to the social web.
How deep is this move? On stage this morning at Dreamforce, Mark ...Read More
Dreamforce 09 Tired of the Facebook hype and metaphors stretched to breaking point? Well, now you've got "Facebook for the enterprise" from Salesforce.com, trying to stake out its place in enterprise collaboration. On Wednesday, the software-as-a-service provider announced Salesforce.com Chatter, which ...Read More
NEW YORK - Users of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 video game consoles can now brag about their achievements on Facebook as both systems integrate the social network this week. Microsoft Corp. switched on a slew of new features for ...Read More
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff jokes about having 5,000 of his closest friends on Facebook. As result, he says, he knows more about strangers than his employees. Wednesday, at the company's annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce.com introduced Salesforce Chatter, ...Read More
Facebook is coming to a PS3 near you as part of the latest 3.10 update, which will be rolled out over the course of the next day. We knew it was coming, but Sony has been vague about exactly when ...Read More
JPMorgan Chase is letting Facebook users help decide how to give away $5 million. The idea is to get small, local charities on Chase's radar. The "Chase Community Giving" will let Facebook users choose from more than half a million charities that ...Read More
Facebook must have real traction when even the New Oxford American dictionary decides to take note of a term that has emerged into the vernacular due to the prevalence of the social network, but some people are scratching their head ...Read More
Loic Le Meur, founder and chief executive of Seesmic, demonstrated a new Windows version of Seesmic's desktop console for managing your alerts and accounts in Twitter and Facebook today at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. After the presentation, ...Read More
The annual fall update for the Xbox 360 dashboard is here, bringing with it support for Last.fm radio, Facebook and Twitter integration, and HD streaming through Zune's online marketplace.
To grab the update, just fire up your Xbox and sign into ...Read More
HANOI, Vietnam—Vietnam's growing legions of Facebook users fear that the country's communist government might be blocking the popular social networking Web site, which has become difficult to access over the past few weeks.
Facebook has more than 1 million users in ...Read More
