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Facebook unveiled its e-mail strategy today, with facebook.com addresses, a conversation history that includes e-mail, social messages and SMS, and a "social inbox" that prioritizes friends and friends of friends to keep spam out of the picture.

Get ready for a new invasion wave from Facebook: Mail. According to Techcrunch's sources, a full webmail client integrated with The One and Only Social Network will debut next Monday. If I were Google, Yahoo or Hotmail, I'd be very nervous.

Facebook is hosting a special media event on Monday, November 15, where the company is expected to introduce its own email service code named Project Titan. The service apparently includes a full-on Web-based email client and will give Facebook ...

Queen Elizabeth II is now on Facebook - but she's not going to be your friend.

Google said it will no longer allow the social network Facebook to grab information about Google users' social and professional contacts through Gmail, Google's email service.

Japanese social games company DeNA is out to take down American rivals Facebook and Zynga.

A British official pressed for the removal of videos featuring calls to jihad by Anwar al-Awlaki, and a New York legislator, Anthony Weiner, sent YouTube a letter.

Co-founder shares info about 'Deals,' other mobile apps, improvements for social networking site.

Another much-requested feature has returned to Digg, as the social news site looks to recover from the version 4 fiasco: the bury button. The button — which is essentially the opposite of the “Digg” button and helps push a story out of the system — appears to be live on all stories.

With stock options worth as much as $1.8 billion, a number of Facebook’s early employees are giving up their stable jobs to do what they say they like best: start companies.