We all know how powerful Facebook is in today’s world. People call it the King of social networks. Everyone has got their own impact with Facebook. At the time of its launch, the site was just a social network but now it has become a place where people can make businesses and shop online. With ...

Facebook, the world's most popular online social network. This year, Facebook crossed a big milestone — reaching 1 billion active users. Game companies such as "FarmVille" creator Zynga Inc. and Rovio Entertainment Ltd. of "Angry Birds" fame seek to tap into that vast base of users to gain more players for their games. So today we ...

Facebook is under pressure in Australia to take down a page that insults Aborigines with the government accusing the social networking company of using its U.S. base to avoid Australian anti-discrimination laws. The Aboriginal Memes Facebook page has created a furor in Australia this week with its depictions of indigenous Australians as drunks and welfare cheats. Australia's ...

The big name in social network facebook has now made its app center the storefront for Facebook desktop and mobile applications, available in every country where Facebook is.Facebook’s App Center gives you the ability to find new and cool social applications that are using Facebook’s social and open graph. You can see what other friends have installed and ...

Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg's youngest sister, Arielle, works for Wildfire as a junior product manager. After the acquisition, Arielle would become a Google employee and will be expected to work towards undermining her brother's domination in the social networking arena. Commenting on the acquisition, older sis Randi Zuckerberg said via Twitter, "Congrats Wildfire! There ...

Facebook launches the Recommendations Bar, a new social plug-in that helps people find articles based on what their friends like and share from your site. As a person reads an article, a small pop-up surfaces at the bottom of the screen highlighting recommended articles and prompting them to like the page. Recommendations are based on content that friends ...

Last month Facebook announced the coming launch of their App Center to iOS, a dedicated section to allow users to download apps for the social network. At the time Facebook encouraged developers to create their ‘app detail page’ prior to the launch of App Center. but The Facebook App Center is live on an iPhone -- somewhere. Facebook said it is testing its ...

Facebook is seeking $5 billion in the company’s initial public offering, almost three times the size of the previous tech IPO record-holder (Google, with $1.7 billion, in 2004). Famously private about details (well, their own, anyway), Facebook’sIPOfiling has provided an enlightening glimpse into the particulars of the top social media company’s real business.  In many ways, ...

A study commissioned by Facebook examined why Facebook elicits such an emotional response and how consumers’ brains responded to the site as well as to Yahoo’s and The New York Times‘s homepages. The study, found that of the three, Facebook scored highest on attention. A.K. Pradeep, the CEO of NeuroFocus, says “The face is a window to the emotions.” ...

1 - Bold and Italic - Facebook used to allow you to make use of bold and italic text, however, following the merger of messages and chat messaging that functionality has been removed.  2 - Emoticons - Every so often Facebook introduces new emoticons without warning or announcement, for example in addition to the commonly known ...