San Francisco :: CA :: USA
| about 19 hours ago
Once upon a time, there was a little widget called Meebo. It excelled by pooling together disparate interactive chatting programs such as MSN, Yahoo and iCQ into a unified interface. No longer would you have to log into multiple chatting programs to span...
Tags: power, facebook, social network
Melbourne :: Australia
| 4 days ago
An Australian restaurateur left holding a hefty unpaid bill when five young diners bolted used the popular social networking Web site Facebook to track them down — and they got their just desserts.
Peter Leary from Melbourne seafood restaurant...
Tags: Dine-and-dash gang nabbed, Facebook
Toronto :: Canada
| 5 days ago
Premier Dalton McGuinty appears willing to acknowledge that father may not always know best when it comes to new driver legislation. The McGuinty government is under pressure to respond to more than 110,000 people who have signed onto a Facebook group...
Tags: Dalton McGuinty, premier dalton, driver legislation, passenger restrictions, teen driver, teenage passenger, Facebook, Ontario
San Francisco :: CA :: USA
| 6 days ago
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook has won $873 million judgment against a Canadian man who bombarded the popular online hangout with sexually explicit "spam" messages.
The victory, sealed with a judge's order issued last Friday, probably won't yield a windfall...
Tags: Facebook, Social, Networking, sex, spam, lawsuit, judgement, court
Bangalore :: India
| 6 days ago
Kara Swisher's BoomTown blog yesterday detailed how acquisition talks between the two hottest privately held dot-com companies recently fell apart...The same thing that tosses many such pacts into the woodchipper: price. Unnamed sources from both sides...
Tags: Facebook, Twitter Worth
Calgary :: Canada
| 6 days ago
Police in Canada are investigating attacks on children with red hair after an anti-ginger group was set up by a teenager on Facebook. Ken Logel It is thought an episode of the animated series South Park, known for its satirical humour, recently focused...
Tags: red hair, Facebook
Toronto :: Canada
| 7 days ago
Tanya Talaga Queen's Park Bureau The Ontario government is getting an increasingly rough ride over plans to limit the number of young passengers that drivers aged 19 and under can take in a vehicle. The New Democratic Party is uniting with the Progressive...
Tags: Dalton McGuinty, Ontario, Facebook, teen driver, facebook group, teenage driver, premier dalton, young driver, transportation minister
San Francisco :: CA :: USA
| 7 days ago
Facebook has won an $873 million judgment against a Canadian man who bombarded the popular online social networking site with sexually explicit "spam" messages. The victory, sealed with a judge's order issued last Friday, probably will not yield a windfall...
Tags: spammers, Facebook, Adam Guerbuez, facebook wins, million judgment, California, Montreal, Judge Jeremy Fogel, social networking, Atlantis Blue Capital
Washington :: DC :: USA
| 7 days ago
It has been a while since we had some eyebrow-raising acquisition rumours, and perhaps that's not surprising given the state of the financial markets. But there's a fascinating report from Kara Swisher on AllThingsD today which claims that Facebook recently...
Tags: social network, social networking, technology, Facebook, Twitter
Toronto :: Canada
| 8 days ago
It was apparently inspired by an episode of the satirical cartoon South Park that urged members to "kick a ginger" -- someone with red hair -- on Nov. 20. Isolated incidents were reported at other schools on Vancouver Island and in the Lower Mainland.
Tags: Facebook, urged members