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Facebook’s Middle East and Africa boss on ads, mobile and the scramble for Africa

Africa is an important market for everybody. Facebook is well aware of this and ready to jump abroad the great innovation train blazing through…

Sod the memes, Facebook wants to promote actual news in your feed

It looks like Facebook wants your news feed to grow up. The social network has announced that it will be now be prioritising actual…

Facebook looking at feature that lets you save links to read later

Given the vast number of links shared on Facebook on a daily basis you’d think it would have twigged that an in-built service allowing…

How does Facebook remain relevant in a mobile world?

I noticed something over the weekend. I can’t recall the last time I visited Facebook.com on my laptop. Even though I sit at a…

Check out what happens when this guy meets his Facebook friends in real life

You might be one of those people who curates their social networks very carefully, in which case it’s likely that you’ve actually met all…

Ouch. Forrester’s new research says that Facebook ads are ‘failing marketers’

If you were Facebook — a business which derives 88% of its income from advertising — the last thing you’d want to hear is…

Man sues Facebook for $500 000

The New York Post reports Mustafa Fteja of the city’s Staten Island borough is suing Facebook for half a million US dollars, after the…

Surge in Facebook users coincides with North African uprisings

The revolutionary uprisings sweeping through the Muslim countries of North Africa are difficult to write about because change is taking place so fast. But…

Zuckerberg’s hack attack leads to new security features on Facebook

Coming soon to your Facebook Account Settings–secure browsing and one-time passwords. These security enhancements have been introduced on the heels of a hacker posting…

Facebook rolls out ‘Sponsored Stories’: What you need to know

Facebook has this week announced a new ad format, already rolling out across the site from 25 January, which will turn some of your…

Is it a tweet or is it a status update?

After locking my BlackBerry away for the Christmas break and enjoying the consequent peace and quiet, I’ve decided that 2011 is the year we…

Facebook Pages level the playing field for small business

Few small business owners and entrepreneurs have the bandwidth or the budget to launch a full scale marketing campaign. Combine this with a lack…

Facebook: Emerging market countries surge into the top 10

Only a year or two ago, developed countries were dominating Facebook, but in terms of growth it’s the developing economies that are taking giant…

Facebook: The China challenge

A few weeks back Mark Zuckerburg was spotted in Beijing, strutting through the headquarters of Baidu – China’s dominant search engine and resident Google…

9 top tips for navigating Facebook’s promotional guidelines

Facebook has undoubtedly become the platform of choice when it comes to connecting the masses – and the statistics are mind blowing. Almost 600-million…

The emerging market social-networking superpowers

There is something going on in China, Russia and South Africa. Via various internet investments and creations, these three countries combined have built up…

Top 10 South American brands on Facebook

When we think of Facebook most of us think of it as the domain of the English-speaking world. But the reality is that over…

Facebook now worth more than Boeing

Social-networking behemoth Facebook could now be worth more than US aerospace giant Boeing and media company Time Warner. This new valuation is as a…

Facebook goes down while testing new features

Facebook was deliberately shut down early on Friday morning for almost two and a half hours while staff fixed a glitch. In an official…

Facebook brings facial recognition to photos

Facebook has announced that it will add facial recognition functionality to let users automatically identify friends in photos. A “tag suggestion” feature created to…

The global village explained, by a Facebook intern [Visualisation]

Facebook intern Paul Butler was interested in seeing how political borders affect friendships around the globe. So he created a map of the world…

Facebook creating ‘second internet’ in challenge to Google

Facebook is challenging Google’s supremacy on the Internet with a radically different approach to how people live, work, play and search online. While Google…

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