"Facebook News" Category

Mark Zuckerberg is the Best Young Businessmen in the World

mark_zuckerbergFacebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in the top of the list of 40 best young businessmen in the world by the Fortune magazine. The “Fortune 40 under 40″ rating includes only the businessmen younger than 40 years.

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24 Years Old Student Started War Against Facebook

facebook_max_Schrems24 years old student of the University of Vienna Max Schrems is fighting with the Facebook company for several months. It all started with the fact that Max posted a few well-composed letters to the Facebook, and made the California’s office to sent him a CD-ROM with all the personal data collected over three years of activity on the site.

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Facebook Application for iPad

facebook-ipadOn Monday, the social network Facebook has released an application for the iPad. The company reported on the official blog: “Today, it’s finally here. With the iPad app, you get the full Facebook experience, right at your fingertips.”.

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Facebook Inline Translation Feature

facebook-translateRecently, Facebook released a note saying that began its work on a new translation feature. This function allows to translate user pages’s posts, as well as comments by pressing a single button “Translate”. New features have been announced previously, but started to work only today.

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Facebook is Going to Scan for Malicious Links and Racism

facebook_logo-580x340.jpgThe social network has confirmed its intention to scan all posted links on the site for malware and racism in real time with their partner – Websense company.

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HUGE: Facebook Updated iOS Application

facebook-logoFacebook iOS Application has got a major update. As a result, the number of features and functionality of the application itself has increased. However, iPad version has not been released yet, this stucks Apple users and makes them to use web version of the social network.

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In June Facebook received 1 Trillion Page Views

Facebook-Like-Button.jpgAccording to the advertising network DoubleClick, in June, Facebook pages have been visited more than a trillion times by 870 million unique users. Now, in this context, talk of tough competition between Facebook and newly created Google + look simply not serious.

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Two Brits get 4 years prison for organizing riots using Facebook

uk_facebook_arrestOn Tuesday, two men from the north-west England – Jordan Blackshaw and Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan – got four years prison for organizing and managing the recent riots through Facebook.

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Facebook Released Mobile Chat App for Android and iPhone

facebook-messengerFacebook introduced a Facebook Messenger for Android and iPhone. It is specially designed to send messages and chat on Facebook. Application is already available for download on Android Market and App Store.

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Facebook Released Mobile Application for Every Phone

Actually not for All phones, but for 2500 models. Facebook believes that this is enough to cover the vast majority of users. This mobile application works not only on smartphones, but also on simple phones with Java support. It has everything you need in most situations: news feed, messages, photos and photo upload feature. One can also search for Facebook friends using mobile phone contacts.

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