Best Buy Launches DTV Facebook Application and Microsite

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Best Buy has launched two new programs that it says are intended to help prepare consumers for the analog to digital broadcast transition on February 17, 2009. One of the programs is a microsite that gives consumers access to home theater specialists at Best Buy to answer DTV related questions.

Best Buy also announced an interactive application for the Facebook social networking site to promote DTV awareness. Campaigns to get consumers to buy digital converters if needed and to be aware that the transition is coming. Campaigns are at a fevered pitch now that we are less than 200 days away from the transition. Read more

Posted on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:24:38 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

It's Art, for the Facebook Generation

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By Miral Fahmy

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - If like many people in our technology-ruled world you can't live without Google, video games, digital media and social networking sites like Facebook, this is your kind of art exhibit. Read more

Posted on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 04:16:10 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Microsoft to expand Facebook Ad Pact: Source

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 SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp will announce plans to expand its relationship with online social network Facebook to provide web search and search advertising, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
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Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Private Social Network Facebook to go Web wide

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By Eric Auchard

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The leader of a youth movement that swept the world this past year by encouraging Web users to share bits of their lives with selected friends, spoke on Wednesday of spreading his service across the Web, even while apologizing for past excesses.
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Posted on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:17:15 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

German ''Fakebook'' Site incurs wrath of Facebook

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 By Nicola Leske

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Ehssan Dariani, founder of German social network studiVZ, never made any secret of his admiration for Facebook, which is now suing studiVZ for copying its ideas and look.
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Posted on Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:34:08 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Facebook released new Design

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Today Facebook announced a new site design. The new Facebook site promises a cleaner and simpler design, along with the opportunity for users to preview and test the next-generation features and functionality.

Facebook is inviting people to use the new design and try out the improved features by navigating back and forth between the new and current versions of the site. Access to the new design will be limited at first and gradually become available to all of Facebook's more than 80 million users over the coming days. Read more

Posted on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:54:21 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

He said, she said: Which is it? Facebook asks

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By Eric Auchard

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social network site Facebook will press members to declare whether they are male or female, seeking to end the grammatical device that leads the site to refer to individual users as "they" or "themself."
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Posted on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:32:51 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Manners still matter when you're poking on Facebook

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By Paul Majendie

LONDON (Reuters) - Should you reject a friend on MySpace? How do you ward off an old lover on Facebook?
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Posted on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:37:45 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Microsoft buys Yahoo's Search, Facebook and then challenges Google

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After Microsoft and Yahoo issued statements that they are talking again yesterday, rumors went rampant on what Microsoft's new strategy is.

According to Furrier and Scobelizer, there is a rumor floating in Silicon Valley that Microsoft plans to buy only the search business of Yahoo and then buy the social network giant Facebook. Read more

Posted on Mon, 19 May 2008 09:40:27 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Facebook Users willing to let Employers see Profiles

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By Claire Sibonney

TORONTO (Reuters) - While many Facebook users may be secretly surfing the social networking site on the job, many Canadians say they are willing to let their employer look at their profiles, according to a poll released on Wednesday.
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Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 05:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Microsoft sends out Feelers to Facebook: WSJ

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SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp gauged Facebook's interest in a possible acquisition after the software giant's failed takeover attempt of Yahoo Inc , the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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Posted on Wed, 7 May 2008 12:48:37 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Facebook near Settlement of Lawsuit: Report

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook is wrapping up the settlement of a lawsuit brought against it by former Harvard students who claim that the idea for the site was originally theirs, the New York Times reported.
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Posted on Tue, 8 Apr 2008 01:24:15 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Li Ka-shing ups Facebook Stake to $120 million: Source

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social networking site Facebook has closed a second $60 million investment round with Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing through his foundation, a source familiar with the deal confirmed on Thursday.
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Posted on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:00:10 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Royal Pardon frees Moroccan Facebook User

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RABAT (Reuters) - A Moroccan computer engineer jailed last month for setting up a Facebook account in the name of King Mohammed's brother has been freed after a royal pardon, his lawyer said on Wednesday.
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Posted on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:46:32 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Facebook adds Privacy Controls, plans Chat Feature

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By Eric Auchard

PALO ALTO, California (Reuters) - Facebook said on Tuesday it is introducing new privacy controls that give users of the fast-growing social-network site the ability to preserve social distinctions between friends, family and co-workers online.
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Posted on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:35:13 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Nokia shows Phones, eyes Facebook Access

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By Tarmo Virki

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Nokia , the world's largest handset maker, unveiled four new multimedia phones on Monday and said it was in talks to offer phone access to social networking site Facebook.

Nokia also launched its new free media-sharing service "Share on Ovi," which it opened for live testing last week, and an updated version of its maps software, the world's first pedestrian navigation system. Read more

Posted on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Slide takes $50 mln in Funding amid Facebook Craze

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By Eric Auchard

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Social network software maker Slide Inc said on Friday it had closed a $50 million institutional financing round, marking the rising valuations of start-ups riding fast-growing Facebook's wave of popularity. Read more

Posted on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

German Samwer Brothers invest in Facebook

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The three Samwer brothers are well known in internet entrepreneurs in Germany. Now they make headlines with a high profile investment in social networking king-pin Facebook.

The Samwer brothers founded successfully in the past the Alando auction platform they sold to eBay and the Jamba ringtone company which they sold to Verisign. Read more

Posted on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:47:15 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

For College Students, if it's Facebook, it's Love

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By Joanne Kenen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For the Facebook generation, love now comes with a drop-down menu. Read more

Posted on Wed, 5 Dec 2007 01:20:56 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Li Ka-shing Foundation buys Facebook Stake: Source

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By Eric Auchard

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Online social network Facebook.com has closed a $60 million investment by Li Ka-shing through the billionaire Hong Kong tycoon's foundation, a source familiar with the deal confirmed on Monday. Read more

Posted on Tue, 4 Dec 2007 00:00:00 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr

Facebook alters Notifications after Privacy Furor

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By Eric Auchard

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Confronted with mounting privacy protests, Facebook.com has scaled back a Web monitoring feature that notifies one's friends when the Facebook user visits affiliated Web sites, the company said on Thursday. Read more

Posted on Sat, 1 Dec 2007 08:31:20 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr