Is it just us, or do Yahoo and Facebook have a rather bizarre relationship? The companies partnered together last year in September to integrate Yahoo News with Facebook socializing, but then Yahoo sued Facebook for patent infringements a few months later. Taking the hint, Facebook then fought back and added 750 patents to its portfolio. [...]

Yet another random purchase for social networking website, Facebook has made its second biggest acquisition of this year. This time, they bought a location mobile app called Glancee. The application is currently exclusive to iOS and Android. It lets users find friends based on their current locations. However, since Facebook scooped up Glancee, the app [...]

After a surprising purchase of popular, photo mobile app Instagram, Facebook makes another unexpected buy. This time, it’s a customer-loyalty application, Tagtile. Facebook announced in mid-April that they will be acquiring substantially all of Tagtile’s assets. The team of developers behind the start-up will also be joining Facebook’s staff. Tagtile is a marketing mobile app [...]

Until Thursday, Facebook has always set a limit on the amount of personal information users can download. But now it’s expanding that limitation, and giving its members more freedom. According to a recent post on its privacy page, Facebook users can now access additional categories of information, “including previous names, friend requests you’ve made and [...]

A group of 18 companies including giants Facebook, Apple, Twitter, and Yelp have been served with a lawsuit that makes claims of privacy-invasion. The companies are accused of dishing out users’ personal information through their mobile applications. Filed by a group of 13 individuals in the U.S. District Court, the suit charges the companies with [...]

Unless you’ve been living under a mountain of dying Windows XP PCs, you’ve probably heard of Facebook’s purchase of Instagram, a popular photo-filtering and sharing mobile app. So Facebook bought a mobile application, what’s the big deal? The big deal is that Facebook purchased the app for a whopping $1 billion. Instagram is hugely popular, [...]

Recently after getting sued for patent infringement by Yahoo, Facebook announced its purchase of 750 patents from IBM. The company did not disclose the details of the sale, but it confirmed that the purchase will gain it some ammo in the expected upcoming patent battles. The patents cover a range of media and networking technologies. [...]

If you’re not a big fan of the new Facebook Timeline, you’re in for some bad news. The social network says soon the feature will be applied to every profile, whether users want it or not. At the end of last year, Timeline was only a new visual feature that users could adopt on a [...]

Facebook has acknowledged and fixed a bug that revealed users’ personal photos. The problem was discovered only after several users were able to post Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s personal pictures. The bug took advantage of the company’s option to report inappropriate images. When users clicked on the “Report” link to flag an image as inappropriate, [...]

Facebook has signed Taiwanese cellphone maker HTC to manufacture a smartphone, codenamed Buffy, that has the social network integrated at the core of its Android OS . The question now is; will anyone care to have a Facebook phone instead of simply a phone with a Facebook app on it? The first Facebook phone project, [...]