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A mysterious Facebook event has sparked buzz that the leading social network could be adding video to the Instagram smartphone picture-sharing service.
Facebook has revealed it received between 9 000 and 10 000 requests for user data from US authorities in the second half of last year, as it seeks to shield itself from a growing scandal.
Facebook has added Twitter-style hash tags to help the members of the social network tune into topics of interest at the social network.
Hillary Clinton has made a lighthearted Twitter debut, poking fun at her own image and fuelling speculation about what the future holds for the former secretary of state.
As Nelson Mandela enters his third day in hospital, South Africans have taken to social networks to express their feelings for the Nobel laureate.
A KwaZulu-Natal family has been left devastated after a 17-year-old girl was allegedly stabbed to death by a boyfriend she had met on Facebook.
Fresh clashes have erupted in Turkey as protesters defy a government plea to end days of unrest, the biggest challenge yet to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decade-long rule.
McAfee Labs is reporting a surge early this year in malicious software aimed at stealing passwords at social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.
Facebook haws begun authenticating the pages of famous folks and big brands at the social network, in a move that follows in Twitter's footsteps.
IAC chairperson Barry Diller says that longtime news magazine Newsweek, which ended its print publication last year in favor of digital, is back on the auction block.
A southern African nature sharing website is gaining momentum with over 50 000 observations as "citizen scientists" contribute to the online project.
Twitter has implemented additional security after a wave of attacks on the profiles of influential media outlets.
South African Facebook profiles are being cloned and used to solicit money, The Times newspaper has reported.
Police in Pakistan's biggest city Karachi have rescued a teenage boy who was kidnapped for a half-million dollar ransom after apparently being lured through Facebook, officers and relatives say.
Russia's top online social network has been banned from distributing content across the country, raising concerns of a clampdown on a forum used by President Vladimir Putin's opponents.
