A study carried out for the Wall Street Journal found that the ubiquitous “Like” and “Tweet” buttons which internet surfers use to share web content with their friends, is sharing more than just the content, they are informing Facebook and Twitter that the user has been to the website, even if the buttons are not clicked.

Facebook’s “Like” button and Twitter’s “Tweet” button appears frequently alongside news articles or products, and have become an increasingly common part …

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Social network Facebook, one of the top three most visited websites in the world, has once again come under the sight of spammers attacking the users with online spam offering them to enable the button Dislike.
As reported in the blog of antivirus solutions Sophos, the campaign carried out by cybercriminals simulates the messages from friends and contains the following text: Facebook now …

The Winklevoss twins said they will take their ongoing battle with Facebook to the next level, with a petition to the Supreme Court asking that their case against Facebook be heard.

The latest legal development has evolved from a $65 million settlement between the Winklevoss twins, their partner Divya Narendra, and Facebook. The three were awarded this settlement after they agreed to halt further litigation against the social networking giant, after launching a suit claiming Zuckerberg stole …

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss will not quit, even if it means taking their case against Facebook and its billionaire founder Mark Zuckerberg all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“The law firm of Howard Rice announced that its clients, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra, intend to file a Petition for Certiorari with the United States Supreme Court in the ongoing dispute with Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg,” the twin’s law firm revealed on Monday, Mashable reports.
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Microsoft’s Bing will build further on its partnership with Facebook with the inclusion, starting on Monday, of Facebook “Likes” and recommendations from Friends and others in search results.

The change means that a small photo, and the Facebook Thumbs Up icon will appear, along with a note saying the Friend approved, next to a link in search results.  Search result listings will also be prioritized based on what “Friends” have liked.
 
Microsoft began integrating the …

Twenty-year old Acton Beale died in Australia from “planking”, the growing internet fad of posting photographs of oneself lying in a prone position in an odd, or funny, and increasingly more often, dangerous locations.

Beale died when he was trying to plank on the balcony of a high rise building and lost his balance.
 
Police in Queensland are concerned that with planking becoming more popularity, in part because social media websites make it easy to quickly spread a new plank …

Investors will get their first opportunity to get a piece of the social networking pie when LinkedIn begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) this Thursday under the symbol LNKD.

LinkedIn does not have nearly the popularity of the other much talked about social networking website Facebook which now boasts 600 million members, but it does have 100 million members, is known as THE professional networking website to go to for job hunting and recruiting, and has been getting more …

Facebook earlier this week reportedly hired PR firm Burson-Marsteller to start a “smear campaign” against Google, and since then, statements from both parties confirmed the bad news.
However, Burson-Marsteller could never have gotten more bad press when caught deleting criticism on the debacle from its Facebook page.
Wired even captured a screenshot of a comment criticizing the firm before removal, which read, “Since no one from your organization is sharing this information, I will …

Facebook announced in a blog post it has introduced a login system, dubbed ‘Login Approvals’ that will require members to type in a code on their device they will receive via text message.  Users will not be able to log in unless they enter the code and authenticate the device.
 
Andrew Song, who wrote the blog post about the latest opt-in security feature he has been working on over the last several months, describes “Login Approvals” as a “security feature that requires you …

Facebook faced a judge in U.S. court in California this week, because of a lawsuit in which Facebook members charged that it gave personal data to advertisers for users who clicked on ads.

The social networking giant argues that all eight of the claims in the suit should be thrown out because the plaintiffs did not show enough evidence of injury to justify the case. U.S. District Judge James Ware in San Jose did not agree, but he did throw out five of the eight claims.
 
For the other …