Last weekend tech writers ruminated over wild reports that Facebook’s reign has ended. Not because the best friend of a Forbes writer’s son said the social network has gone cold, but because research proved it and even Facebook admitted losing teens in its annual report.
Former Facebook Product Director Blake Ross quipped about the writer story. He included it in a resignation letter on his profile page on February 22 as parting words to leave the company.
Ross has since retracted …

Facebook is running tests for a new single-column design on Timeline for Kiwis.
According to The Next Web (TNW), the social networking giant plans to move the column for shared content and status updates to the right and add an “About” section to the left column to save a few clicks.
The trial and error will likely affect a few Facebook users in New Zealand.
TNW said the revamped Timeline is different from the previous redesigned profiles Facebook tested on a chosen few earlier this …

Hot on the heels of closing a deal with marketing data giants Acxiom, BlueKai, Datalogix, and Epsilon, social networking firm Facebook has approved a new agreement to procure a popular advertising service.
According to an official blog post on Thursday, Facebook will acquire the Atlas Advertiser Suite from Microsoft for an undisclosed amount.
Microsoft’s Atlas is an industry leader in handling campaigns and providing analysis for marketers and advertising agencies.
The social network …

The partnership between the world’s largest social networking site and three real world giants in data collection for advertisers is unheard-of. It is the collision of large online and offline user data repositories for the benefit of marketers.
On Wednesday, Facebook announced in a blog post that businesses now have the option to improve their ads on the social network through consumer data providers BlueKai, Acxiom, Datalogix, and Epsilon. While BlueKai has established its name as a broker …

Facebook’s security system is not yet full-blown, as one hacker would attest to one of its flaws.
Security blogger Nir Goldshlager said he found a vulnerability in Facebook’s OAuth that gave him full access to a user’s profile information.
OAuth is an open standard for secure authorization from desktop, mobile, and web applications. With it, users can authorize an app to act on their behalf without sharing their password.
Goldshlager wrote on his blog the full the details on how he hacked …

A recent survey by CITI and Ad Age found that majority of advertisers use Facebook, with 85.1% of respondents saying that they use the social network as a marketing tactic.  The survey was conducted among 701 media executives and marketers on January

In Binghamton, New York, parents are being urged to monitor their kids through social media. On Wednesday night, education coordinator Megan Whalen gave a talk at Binghamton High School, telling parents about how to keep their kids safe on social media

People can make mistakes on Facebook after Valentine’s Day because the love month can make people quite impulsive and passionate. The social networking site is apparently an avenue where most people make daily events apparent, and so it is very easy to make the following post-Valentine’s mistakes as posted by Ranker, on the

According to a study involving older adults aged 68 to 91 years, using Facebook might give them a mental boost. The results were shown to an International Neuropsychological Society meeting held in

The newest winners of the Breakthrough Prize, organized by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan, Google CEO Sergey Brin and his wife Anne Wojcicki, and Yuri Milner, an entrepreneur, can do anything with the 3 million dollars they won. So far, this is the biggest cash prize given to biological science