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Two versions of Pac-Man are now available n Facebook free of charge, compete with your friends' high scores in the Pac-Man Facebook games.

Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said an alleged contract and emails that a New York man says entitle him to a huge stake in the social networking website are "forgeries."

More than half of Americans are now linked in, logged on and busy liking and unliking one another on social networking sites, according to a new report released May 29 by Edison Research called “The Social Habit 2011.”

She's dipped her hands into country music, made appearances on Glee, and even carved a role for hers.

Facebook is poised to hit 700 million users, according to analysis from the Facebook statistics blog SocialBakers. If Facebook were its own country, it would be the third-largest in the world. Fast adoption rates in places such as Brazil, Indonesia, Egypt, the Philippines and Mexico have the site closing in on its next milestone.

The Facebook "Like" and Twitter "Tweet" buttons that appear on so many websites do a lot more than just help you share content with friends.

Facebook users' personal information could have been accidentally leaked to third parties, in particular advertisers, over the past few years, according to Symantec Corp's official web blog.

Mark Zuckerberg is eyeing the takeover of the much popular Skype, in a deal that might cost Facebook close to $4 billion.

Facebook is so large that it now accounts for about one out of every three ad impressions in the U.S., according to the latest statistics from comScore Ad Metrix. In the first quarter of 2011, comScore estimates that 1.1 trillion ads were served to U.S. Internet users, and 346 billion of those (or 31 percent) were on Facebook.

What happens when you cross the world's largest social network with one of the hottest business models in e-commerce? Facebook wants to find out. Facebook is launching a deals program Tuesday in five U.S. cities, following on the popularity of Groupon and other services that offer deep discounts - for example: $50 worth of food at a local eatery for $25.