Social networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn raise ‘serious new challenges’ for financial regulators, the head of the largest US independent securities regulator said on Tuesday. Wall Street bankers and analysts increasingly want to use social networking to connect and interact with customers, Richard Ketchum, the chief executive of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said.
More than half of US companies do not allow employees to visit social networks such as Facebook, MySpace or Twitter while at work, according to a new survey.
A poll asking people whether President Barack Obama "should be killed" has been taken down on the popular social networking site Facebook, and is being investigated by the Secret Service.
Facebook, the social networking website founded by a Harvard University sophomore in 2004, has hit 300 million users according to a blog post by founder Mark Zuckerberg.
A British man is facing murder charges for stabbing his partner to death after he learned she changed her Facebook relationship status from "married" to "single."
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আশি'র দশকের শেষের দিকে টিম বার্নার্স-লি যে ওয়েব (Web) নিয়ে কাজ শুরু করেছিলেন, সেই ওয়েব যে আজকে এমন পর্যায়ে এসে দাঁড়াবে সেটা তিনি নিজেই ভেবেছিলেন কিনা সন্দেহ আছে। ওয়েব প্রযুক্তি দিনদিন সমৃদ্ধ হচ্ছে, আমাদের জীবনের যাবতীয় প্রয়োজন মেটানোর প্রায় সবকিছুই এখন ওয়েবএ পাওয়া যায়। মানুষের সাথে মানুষের এতো সহজ যোগা্যোগ এবং তথ্যের আদান-প্রদান পৃথিবীর ইতিহাসে আগে কখনো হয়নি।
A movement has been launched by several groups on popular social networking website Facebook against the Taliban, who are forcing their
"brand of Islam" on Pakistanis.
Forget the widely unloved redesign. Facebook has committed a greater offense. According to a new study by doctoral candidate Aryn Karpinski of Ohio State University and her co-author Adam Duberstein of Ohio Dominican University, college students who use the 200 million–member social network have significantly lower grade-point averages (GPAs) than those who do not.
In a world filled with e-mail, e-cards and e-commerce, perhaps it was no surprise that the e-condom was next.
The same day Facebook claimed it was proud it had no legal cases involving registered sex offenders or members who met a minor on the social networking site, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported police accused a teen of using the site to extort nude photos and blackmail students into performing sexual favors.
