...display ads. With BrandLift, Facebook users will see surveys in the...where they see advertisements.Facebook, which has faced a backlash...surveys will be controlled."Facebook is an increasingly vital link...consumers and brands," said John Burbank, chief executive of...

...no longer interested in competing with Facebook, effectively conceding defeat in the...social network.Owen Van Natta, a former Facebook executive who replaced Chris DeWolfe...online hub for music and entertainment. "Facebook is not our competition," he said. "We're...

Facebook has won a significant victory against spammers after a...networking company.The court ordered Sanford Wallace to pay Facebook the money after the company complained that he had used...personal information.Commenting on its official blog, Facebook said the decision was "another important victory in our...

...MySpace aims to entertain while Facebook dubs itself a "social utility...four times as many users as Facebook at the moment, I think Mr Murdoch...MySpace gives me a headache, as does perusing some of their messages...songs from well-known bands.Facebook, by contrast, is a much quieter...

Facebook on Monday disabled a third-party application that asked...thought US President Barack Obama should be assassinated.Facebook and the US Secret Service said they were working together...their own surveys. "The vast majority were benign," said Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt. It went up at the weekend and...

...interacting with the broader web.But while Facebook does not allow users to export their contacts...fees.But that analogy goes only so far. Facebook does not charge its users any fees, and through Facebook Connect it is enabling people to interact...

Facebook on Monday made its most significant acquisition to date...sharing service FriendFeed, in a move that that will fuel Facebook's drive to embed itself more widely throughout the web...The announcement follows last year's failed attempt by Facebook to buy Twitter, the internet micro-blogging site, for...

...e-commerce applications is appearing on Facebook, a sign that the world's largest social...retailer and distributor, last week opened its "Facebook storefront", an application running on Facebook's fast-growing platform where users can...

Facebook has begun tapping a new revenue stream with the introduction...which is in its early stages, will allow users to purchase Facebook "credits", then use those credits to buy virtual goods...third-party applications that run on the site, or from Facebook itself. Facebook hopes that by offering a site-wide currency...

Facebook has "serious privacy gaps" and must make changes to comply...Thursday.This is the first time a government has found Facebook in direct violation of its laws, and comes as the world's...share more of their information with everyone on the web."Facebook has to be more transparent about telling people what they...