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Founded Feb 2004
Headquarters Palo Alto, CA, USA
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Facebook is a social networking service funded by some twins and eventually turned into a movie with a Nine Inch Nails soundtrack. Mark Zuckerberg almost called it TheFaceBook before settling on DeFacebook and eventually just Facebook. Zuckerberg has become one of the youngest and most successful entrepreneurs in the world, enjoying a healthy revenue stream (in the billions) while gradually eroding the entire world's privacy. As Justin Timberlake said, "You know what's cool? Willingly submitting all of your personal information to a third party website."
Latest Facebook news
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School re-instates bullied YouTube teen
But Barba carried on campaigning and set up a Facebook page to get re-instated. The story went worldwide with experts from as far away as Australia calling the school idiots. -
Facebook falls on its defacebook, again
Investors who took a risk on Facebook last week appear to be receiving egg on their faces – for the third day running. -
Facebook shares slide further
Social networking site Facebook is seeing its share slide as investors wake up to the fact that they have bought a lemon for the price of a Densuke Watermelon. -
Facebook IPO falling flat
After shareholders gave historically huge amounts of cash to Facebook, it is starting to look like the company did not do as well on its first day as was expected. -
Zuckerberg wins on triumph of hope over reality
CommentFrom today, social networking site Facebook will be the most valuable US technology IPO in the last decade. -
Advertising in Facebook is pointless
Facebook's future was looking less secure after one of its key advertisers walked away from the site. -
Xfactor web abuse leads to troll law lobbying
Brookes suffered from abuse after leaving a supportive comment on the Facebook site of The X Factor contestant Frankie Cocozza which seemed to get a little out of hand. -
Facebook jacks up IPO target
Social networking site Facebook thinks that it can make piles more money out of its IPO. -
Facebook co-founder gives up US citizenship
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has renounced his US citizenship, according to an Internal Revenue Service report. -
Facebook considers charging to highlight posts
Social networking site Facebook is considering charging users who want their more important posts highlighted. -
4Chan vandalises Tea Party website, reveals private donors
Infamous for the chaotic /b/ forum, which spawns much of the internet's memes, a well-known adage around the web is '4Chan is leaking'. This time it looks like it leaked all over the Tea Party's independencehallteapartypac.com. -
Adobe Photoshop caught in the war between fat and thin
CommentFor a while, a campaign has been running on Facebook which is designed to make men feel guilty if they don't fancy fat women. Comments on the bottom of such posts usually have a token bloke saying something emancipating such as "I like a woman with meat on them -
Windows 8 privacy fears over stated
The problem is that Windows 8 connects its users with networks including Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, LinkedIn, Hotmail, Gmail, and Exchange. -
Aussie politician threatens to get Facebook likers fired
Ironically, Andrew Nikolic is the Liberal candidate for Tasmania. His cunning censorshop plan is to threaten to contact the employers of Facebook users who "liked" a satirical article posted about him online and get them fired. -
Why Mark Zuckerberg needs a makeover
It wouldn't be hard for the Facebook CEO to rise to the top of the Facebook fashion brat pack. -
Zuckerberg facing tough IPO questions
Zuckerberg is not used to being questioned. Normally Facebook has run more or less on his whim, now hundreds of potential investors are getting the chance to hit him with tricky questions such as how to you spell antidisestablishmentarianism. -
Zynga shouts about "copycat" publishers
Zynga, which makes Facebook games like "FarmVille" and "CityVille," is miffed with the French game publisher Kobojo who it claims stole its ideas. -
EU urged to 'set the rules' on health data security
The EU needs to bolster “inadequate” patient data security with eHealth legal frameworks, or risk playing catch up to the likes of Google and Facebook.
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