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Thursday, October 14th, 2010
Journalists may not use information from the Facebook accounts of their "friends", a Danish media tribunal ruled today in a case pitting the prime minister's brother against a tabloid.
"Information on closed profiles are reserved to people - the Facebook 'friends' - who have been authorised to access the profile," the ...
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Monday, October 4th, 2010
Police and teachers are warning parents that children as young as eight are at risk from cyber bullies and online predators because they are flouting Facebook website age restrictions.
Peer group pressure is forcing increasing numbers of primary school-aged children to sign up to the popular social media site without the ...
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Monday, July 5th, 2010
The world's largest online social network announced the change in April. It's part of Facebook's cooperation with Canada' privacy commissioner, who has been among the sharpest critics of the company's privacy policies.
Facebook is rolling out a new feature that requires outside applications and websites to tell users exactly what parts ...
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Sunday, July 4th, 2010
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has finally joined the social networking site Twitter and she's sent it into a Sunday afternoon frenzy.
Ms Gillard had been maintaining a dignified silence on Twitter, which other politicians appear addicted to. But commensurate with her new role running the country, Ms Gillard joined the internet ...
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Sunday, June 27th, 2010
In a decision that boded well for the youth-oriented social networking website in similar suits, US district court judge Sam Sparks in Texas ruled that MySpace was not responsible for people's honesty online or their arranged encounters.
"This decision reaffirms that under federal law Internet sites like MySpace cannot be held ...
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
Last October, MySpace reached an all-time low of 50.2 million unique visitors per month. That number has only decreased since (47.6 million in March). The site is hemorrhaging money, while a certain competitor extends its reach throughout the web, in spite of mounting privacy issues. After years of enduring seizure-inducing ...
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Sunday, June 20th, 2010
Tears of frustration have been replaced with tears of joy, knowing the search for their sister is finally over. A Bakersfield woman met her adult sister for the first time, thanks to MySpace.com. The sisters have waited a lifetime for this meeting. At the age of 18, Anjanette Higgins ...
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Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Five months after a reorganisation that forced out the previous chief executive, Jason Hirschhorn, co-president of News Corp-owned MySpace, is leaving the social networking company. Mike Jones, currently the other co-president of MySpace, will run the unit. Additional management at MySpace is unlikely.
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Thursday, June 17th, 2010
The online social network is preparing to lay off as many as 500 of its 1,600 workers, the TechCrunch blog reported on Wednesday, as it cuts costs while trying to stay ahead of growing competition from rival Facebook.
MySpace is part of Fox Interactive Media, which houses some of News Corp's ...
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
A group of online music industry giants, including MySpace, Apple and Amazon, have teamed up to form "Why Music Matters," a group aimed at turning pirates into purchasers.
While I'm certainly not going to argue with the value of paying for music, it's tough to take an earnest plea for buying ...
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