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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."
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Google bows to censorship pressure in India
Ajiaz Arshad filed a civil suit against a range of the big internet players which operate in the country, including Facebook and Yahoo. Arshad argued that the content was religiously intolerant and would have potentially spiralled out of control, causing unrest, reports the | Wall Street Journal. -
Real investors don't buy Facebook shares
Top share investors are unlikely to be rushing to buy a slice of the social not-working site Facebook. -
Facebook to apply for IPO a day early
As predicted, the social not-working giant Facebook is to apply for an IPO. -
Parliament grills Google on privacy
Against a backdrop of increasing worries about personal data online, representatives from Google, Facebook and Twitter squirmed under questioning. -
Facebook IPO tipped for next week
The word on the street is that the much awaited Facebook IPO is due out next week. -
MIT's Tilera 100 core chip out this year
Wired said that the MIT-run outfit is attracting the interest of several companies. Facebook looked at the TILE-Gx against Intel and AMD's Xeon and Opteron server-processors. Apparently the 64-core Tilera TILEPro64 yielded at least 67 percent higher throughput than low-power x86 servers. -
SOPA is alive and well in Ireland
What is worrying is that Big Content could also ask a judge to order ISPs to block YouTube, Facebook and Twitter because the music industry insists that these sites contain their content. -
CBS is offline and its servers are wiped
Targeted were the websites of Poland's parliament and prime minister, the Anonymous Facebook page on Sunday also featured defacements of sites in Romania. -
Grey market entrepreneurs turn trojans into profit
AnalysisA small gang of men living St. Petersburg, Russia, managed to elude law officials, Facebook and computer security firms for years. They operated Koobface, an infamous worm named after a play on Facebook which spread like wildfire on the social network. -
Facebook turns over US data to politicians
Social not-working site Facebook is giving detailed personal data to the political research outfit Politico. -
Google tells India that it can't protect its politicians
The government had called Google and Facebook into its offices and told them to censor the internet. If Google and Facebook do it, under some kind of industry agreement, then people will not say that the the world's biggest democracy does it. -
SOPA: How to stuff up your political career
Google, Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit oppose the bill, which they say will cripple the internet and wipe out the entire tech industry. -
Paul Ceglia, Facebook claimant, fined $5,000
Paul Ceglia, the man suing for part ownership of Facebook, has been fined $5,000 because he failed to fully comply with a court order to give experts access to his email accounts. -
Man creates webservers from stuff in his drawer
It needed some natty coding to split the application's duties into tiny pieces and spread them evenly across the network. But it could be used to create the sort of databases you would run for Google, Facebook or Twitter. -
Striking Spanish author sparks digital publishing debate
A backlash was immediately felt on Facebook for example, with the author quickly shutting down her account. -
2011 exposed big holes in supply chain
CommentAnd then there’s Google and there’s Facebook and there’s Twitter. Google continued its bid to oust Microsoft as the Behemoth to end all Behemoths and faced increasing criticism, litigation, and investigation by different countries scattered across the globe. -
India orders top websites to censor themselves
Facebook, Microsoft, YouTube, Google, among 21 others will have to strip their websites off any objectionable content. Given that some of the Internet scandals that have hit India recently that will include all images of women kissing men. -
IBM predicts advertisers will know absolutely everything about you
Just like Facebook provides you with targeted ads on site, IBM reckons advertising will become so personalised you want wish to bin it.
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