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[Editor’s note: This is an Op-Ed by Bernard Moon, co-founder for GoingOn Networks. Apologies to Bernard for not publishing this sooner. He submitted this piece before Ballmer’s recent statement about ...

Nielsen and Facebook said Tuesday that they have forged a strategic alliance to use the social networking site as a research tool to gauge consumer attitudes and buying intentions. Under the ...

LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 25: In this photo illustration the Social networking site Facebook is displayed on a laptop screen on March 25, 2009 in London, England. The British government has made ...

Why did Facebook just decide to raise money from Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies — aside from generally wanting a “cushion” of $200 million before it goes public? As Facebook chief ...

Facebook is great at wasting your time, but could it keep you from doing hard time? So far, the site that connects people with their sixth-grade crushes and lets countless parents keep better tabs on ...

The likes of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have become so popular, in fact, that social networking represents the fastest growing Internet use segment, the Nielsen report found. According to Nielsen, ...

New social networking tools from Facebook that make it easy to recommend products to online friends is turning the legions of Facebook users into Web-based marketers' newest sales and advertising arms ...

Facebook is taking its crusade for open networking to a broader battlefield, using its 16-port “Wedge” switch design as the basis of a new modular platform that can link together racks of servers ...