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Facebook users who check in to a store or click the "like" button for a brand may soon find those actions retransmitted on their friends' pages as a "Sponsored Story" paid for by advertisers....

Yahoo Inc's quarterly net revenue slid 4 percent and it forecast a further slide this quarter as it struggles to revive growth in the face of intense competition from Google and Facebook.

OpenDNS has published their report on the most whitelisted and most blacklisted sites of the year 2010 that might help you get some idea on how the sites are being used by the individuals and organizations. You can see the outlook of its subscribers on the sites they are blacklisting and how some sites useful for some can be even blacklisted by others though not in ethical sense.

Google Inc co-founder Larry Page will take over as CEO from Eric Schmidt, a surprise that signaled Silicon Valley's most powerful Internet company was taking the offensive against fast-moving rivals like Facebook.

Goldman said it was restricting participation in its new Facebook investment fund only to foreign clients, after receiving intense public scrutiny over the move.

First they showed up in your e-mail. Then they found their way onto Facebook. Now ads are coming to your checking account.

Did you hear? Or, perhaps the better question is, did you read it on your news feed? Mark Zuckerberg plans to shut down Facebook on March 15.

Back in December, Facebook introduced its new profiles to the world. For the first month, users could choose between the new profile and the old profile.

As Goldman Sachs pours $450 million into Facebook, Japan, with a large and growing online advertising market, is a big hole in Facebook’s global fabric.

With so many investors becoming fans of the company, Facebook will be legally required to begin sharing more information about its finances and strategy by April 2012, according to documents distributed to prospective shareholders....