Slide takes $50 mln in funding amid Facebook craze
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Social network software maker  Slide Inc said on Friday it had closed a $50 million  institutional financing round, marking the rising valuations of  start-ups riding fast-growing Facebook's wave of popularity.
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Facebook's advertising system provokes questions about how companies share data.
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One drag on Googleâs earnings in the fourth quarter was the payments it was required to make to social networks, especially MySpace. The money it made didnât cover the guarantees.
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By PETER SHERIDAN  It takes nerves of steel  or voracious greed  for a 23-year-old university drop out to turn down 810million for his internet company, but that's exactly what Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, right, did last year.
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Friendster Inc. said on Monday it  received $10 million in new funding to expand abroad and help  its pioneering social-networking site survive in a market  dominated by younger successors who stole its thunder.
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By Janet Kornblum  Facebook, the online networking site once the exclusive terrain of college students, will soon be opening up to the world.
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CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks about changes at Facebook, his super-popular social-networking site. By Aria Pearson from Wired magazine.
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Gullible time-rich polyglot? Facebook wants you! Facebook is headed for a problem. In the wacky innovation-lite and revenue-poor world of web 2.0, you have to be able to show your investors and the hordes of "I want to believe" journalists some sort of growth.â¦
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Eurekster, Inc., which wasone of the first community based social search engines, has secured $5.5 million in a Series B financing. The funding, from Technology Venture Partners (TVP) of Australia and Transcosmos Investments of Japan with the participation of the private investors who provided the company&#8217;s initial Series A financing, will enable Eurekster to accelerate [...]
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Scrabulous, a Scrabble-like application which lets Facebook members to play one another online, has been experiencing booming popularity.
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Facebook has launched a licensing program to allow other social networks to use its technology.
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Facebook is suing seventeen people and a Canadian Internet porn company for allegedly trying to mine the popular social networking site for its users&#39; personal details.Facebook alleges that in June servers controlled by the defendants used automated scripts to make more than 200,000 requests for personal information stored on Facebook&#39;s site. The allegations are contained in an amended lawsuit filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California.The company first filed suit back in June, but amended the complaint this month after obtaining court orders to identify who controlled the servers trying to access its site.Experts have warned people against publishing too much personal information on social networking sites for fear it could be collected and then abused by fraudsters.Facebook, one of the most-used social networking sites after MySpace, said the automated scripts caused error messages to be generated, but the company did not say if user information was successfully collected.Named in the suit is Istra Holdings, which controls SlickCash.com, an affiliate advertising business that offers commissions to Web publishers for referring Internet surfers to its portfolio of adult sites.It also names Brian Fabian and Josh Raskin, both of whom the suit says work at Istra in Toronto, and Ming Wu of Markham, Ontario, as well as 14 other unidentified people.Facebook said the hacking attempts cost it at least US$5,000 to investigate. The company has requested a jury trial and is seeking to bar the defendants from accessing its computer systems in the future, in addition to damages.&#160;
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PALO ALTO, California  - Apple's iPhone may be big  news, but in Silicon Valley all eyes are on Facebook. The  all-ages private Internet club that began as a college student  hangout has become the tech industry's hottest ticket.
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Zynga Game Network is one of a new cluster of Internet ventures capitalizing on the rapidly growing social networks like Facebook and MySpace.
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PALO ALTO, Calif. - Mark Zuckerberg is considered the founder of Facebook, the popular social networking website estimated to be worth $1 billion or more.
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Social networking site Facebook has bought internet start-up Parakey.
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Many Web developers these days feel a sleep-depriving mix of unbridled enthusiasm and nagging concern over Facebook's social-network platform.