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Facebook’s Oculus buyout has resulted in some brilliant memes: here are our favourites

Ah the internet… always making jokes and finding the humour in every billion dollar acquisition. While Kickstarter backers of the Oculus Rift are losing…

Here are the winners and losers in Facebook’s $2bn Oculus VR deal

Right now the guys behind the Oculus Rift virtual reality gaming headset are probably at the tail-end of an epic celebration. Think about it,…

Mark Zuckerberg calls President Obama to rant about his NSA frustrations

Sorry, Barrack, but Zuck is not impressed with your snooping… and he’ll tell you so. The social network founder and CEO is trying to…

10 years on, we’re still getting Facebook ROI all wrong

As Facebook celebrates its 10th anniversary with record advertising revenue and more than a billion users, most marketing types admit they’re still not sure…

Facebook News Feed makeover: simpler experience, bigger pictures, less grey

Last year Facebook started rolling out an updated News Feed to some of its users across the globe only to find that they hated…

Facebook ads: pay up or get lost in the noise

If entertaining an increasingly attention-divided online audience wasn’t already difficult enough, Facebook has made a strategic move that forces brands to invest in advertising….

Facebook’s WhatsApp acquisition: wasted billions or a clever mobile play?

On 19 February 2014, Facebook announced that it reached an agreement about the acquisition of WhatsApp, one of the leading mobile messaging services, for…

Facebook looks to be ‘the story of your life’ with upcoming changes

Facebook users were greeted with a new interface this week, leaving many users baulking at a number of the updates. Following the social network’s…

User backlash over Facebook’s new features

Facebook’s latest updates have caused some backlash from its users. Users of the social network have taken to the web to complain about its…

8 Reasons small businesses should use Facebook ads

With websites continuing to proliferate unabated, small businesses find themselves grappling with the question of how to reach an increasingly fragmented audience in the…

Google +1 over Facebook Like and is it worth it?

Google’s +1 service is akin to Facebook’s “Like” system, but, unlike, well, Likes, it’s applicable to the whole of the web – think of…

The black marks: Zuckerberg’s legal legacy

As with most semi-biographical films, The Social Network convinces many who watch it that they develop a comprehensive knowledge of its subject matter, in…

Facebook: Benchmark of F-Commerce services

One of my recent obsessions is social commerce, the idea of shared shopping experiences online. On a global basis, Facebook has been leading the…

Jailed for Facebook: Be careful who you befriend

Joanne Frail, a 40-year-old mother from Manchester, UK, was recently given eight months jail time for contempt of court. Her crime: engaging in Facebook…

You just got served … via Facebook

Most of us think of Facebook as a positive, fairly innocuous, tool for social engagement and peer-to-peer networking. But courts and lawmakers are increasingly…

Why the French media ban on Facebook and Twitter is just plain silly

Have you ever wondered why media businesses across the world advertise that blue Facebook “F” and the turquoise Twitter “T” and demand nothing in…

Facebook vs Google: The dirty tricks campaign

Journalists and bloggers around the world last week woke up to an email screaming in all caps: “Google quietly launches sweeping violation of user…

Farmville goes Gaga: Watch out for the sheep on motorcycles…

Adding yet another weapon to her arsenal in her drive to overwhelm the world, pop singer Lady Gaga has announced that she will be…

Symantec: Facebook accidentally leaked your data

In yet another case of online security being breached, US computer security firm Symantec has said that Facebook accidentally left a door open for…

33% of Facebook posting is mobile

Some stats have been published, by researchers and the company themselves, about mobile usage of Facebook. But to content creators, one of the most…

The story of the Martin Luther King ‘quote’

The death of Osama Bin Laden has already brought one man Sohaib Athar, the man who “unwittingly” gave the world a front row seat…

‘Facebook is the most appalling spying machine ever invented,’ says Assange

Despite desperately fighting off a Swedish extradiction order from the United Kingdom, Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange has still managed to find time to sit…

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