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Facebook and Zynga have just announced a five year partnership and the expansion of use of Facebook Credits in Zynga games.

After months of discord, Zynga and Facebook have made peace--- at least for now.

Facebook has announced a new security feature that aims to keep hackers from tapping into users' personal information.

Concerns over Facebook's new privacy policy and the online social network's recent efforts to spread its information across the Web have led some of the site's faithful to delete their accounts -- or at least try to.

Facebook's latest modifications make it pretty clear that the company is eager to spread its brand even further across the Web -- and that's left some privacy advocates a little freaked out as they look at the vast amount of personal information that Facebook has on hand.

As we reported over the weekend, Facebook is gearing up to launch a new "Places" tab on (at least) the mobile version of its site. This new area is likely to contain a list of venues close to your current location that you can check-in to. Yes, it's basically what you do on Foursquare (and several other location-based services).

This week, Facebook users suddenly found themselves able to monitor the private conversations their friends were having on the site's chat service. TechCrunch's Steve O'Hear reported the bug early this morning. When we attempted to recreate the experiment, we found Facebook's chat feature has been disabled entirely; Facebook explains that chat is "down for maintenance", presumably to fix the hole.

Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle e-reader is getting access to Facebook and Twitter, along with several other enhancements, as part of a software update being sent wirelessly to the devices.

In a posting on Amazon's site, the company says the new software will let users share book passages on their Twitter and Facebook accounts. The update will also let people sort books and documents into collections and lock their Kindle with a password. There also will be larger font options and the ability to zoom in on PDF documents.

Four U.S. senators want Facebook to make it easier for its more than 400 million users to protect their privacy as the website develops new outlets to share personal information....

Facebook announced some changes on Wednesday that are intended to make the Internet more social. Essentially, Facebook is stretching out into the rest of the web. And when you see these Facebook-looking features popping up on other web sites, how do you know what to do with them?

Facebook is spreading its wings to the broader Web with new tools that will allow users to see personalized versions of websites they visit elsewhere.