Facebook will pay Microsoft Corp $550 million for hundreds of patents that originated with AOL, beefing up its intellectual property arsenal. The deal gives social network Facebook 650 patents and patent applications and license to another 275 patents ...

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook will pay $1 billion in cash and stock for Instagram, a 2-year-old photo-sharing application developer, in its largest-ever acquisition just months before the No. 1 social media website is expected to go public. The price was stunning ...

Friends, colleagues and bosses to-be – all meet on the Internet. What kind of a self-portrait are you painting out there? Sharing your thoughts and experiences with your friends on social networking sites has become a customary way of communication. ...

Don’t try to use Bit.ly links on Facebook; they have been marked by the world’s largest social network as abusive, leading to dead end pages and frustrated users. Posting Bit.ly links on Facebook is currently impossible. If you attempt to share a ...

WASHINGTON: Social networking giant Facebook, which plans to raise $5 billion through an IPO, has said India is a key source for its future growth and its user base in the country has more than doubled in the past one year.The growth of 132 per cent ...

Facebook and Google users: Your social media and online life is about to change, and there’s almost nothing you can do about it. Facebook is rolling out Timeline, a scrapbook-like profile page that gathers every post a user has made and arranges ...

Facebook won the loyalty of more than 800 million users largely by getting them into the habit of visiting again and again to see the latest updates, comments, and photos posted by friends. Now the site will also let outside apps provide even more content, ...