By Sharon Gaudin, Computerworld | August 7th, 2014 Cybersecurity startup PrivateCore’s tech can help prevent hackers — or anyone — from accessing Facebook user data. Facebook Thursday moved to beef up its servers by agreeing to buy cybersecurity startup PrivateCore.
Facebook outage hits users
By Sharon Gaudin, Computerworld | August 01st, 2014 Social network reports having an issue affecting all of its platforms at noon ET. Facebook is reporting “increased errors” on all of its platforms as users in the U.S. report that the
Chinese users tire of older social networking sites
By Michael Kan, IDG News Service | July 28th, 2014 WeChat, a messaging app, is disrupting China’s social networking market. Social networking sites in China that are modeled on Facebook are having a hard time holding on to users, with
Twitter and Facebook see a bright future for in-the-moment spending
By Zach Miners, IDG News Service | July 17th, 2014 If you’re an impulse buyer trying to reform your ways, Facebook and Twitter are not on your side. Both companies said Thursday they were working on new services to let
Facebook tests ‘buy’ button to let users make purchases from their feeds
By Zach Miners, IDG News Service | July 17th, 2014 Users can buy products directly from their news feeds from select advertisers. Facebook is testing a “buy” button that lets users make purchases directly from their news feeds. A limited
Secret, an app for posting anonymously, lets users tap into Facebook
By Zach Miners, IDG News Service | July 14th, 2014 The app now offers Facebook log-in, to help members find more friends. How can something be a secret if all your Facebook friends see it? Secret is a company that
US lawmaker asks FTC to probe implications of Facebook ‘big data’ experiment
By John Ribeiro, IDG News Service | July 10th, 2014 Senator Mark R. Warner wants to know what oversight, if any, would be appropriate for studies conducted by social media platforms. A U.S. senator has asked the Federal Trade Commission
Facebook announces its open data-center switch
By Stephen Lawson, IDG News Service | June 18th, 2014 The company wants to open up the platform for development and use by others. Facebook has taken networking into its own hands, building a switch to link servers inside its
Yahoo, Facebook,Google to IETF: Where are the IPv6 users
Jul 27, 2011 03:51 pm | Network World by Carolyn Duffy Marsan Where are the users? That’s what popular websites including Yahoo, Google and Facebook are asking the Internet engineering community when they are questioned about their long-range plans to
Google goes after Facebook with Google+
Jun 28, 2011 03:51 pm | Computerworld After months of rumors, Google takes the wraps off its own social network by Sharon Gaudin After months of speculation, Google has launched a social network to rival Facebook. Google today unveiled its
Google, Facebook promise new IPv6 services after trial
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan | Computerworld June 9, 2011 05:07 PM ET One day after completing a successful 24-hour trial of IPv6, Facebook, Google and Yahoo said at a joint press conference that they would begin permanently supporting this upgrade
Facebook: The Internet did not break
Jun 08, 2011 05:59 pm | Computerworld World’s largest social network reports no problems on World IPv6 Day by Sharon Gaudin With only a few hours left to go on World IPv6 Day, Facebook, the world’s largest social network, reported
Facebook raring to give IPv6 a test flight
Jun 07, 2011 04:16 pm | Computerworld Network engineers worked for months to get ready for World IPv6 Day by Sharon Gaudin After helping to hatch the plan for World IPv6 Day set for Wednesday, a senior network engineer at
Facebook, Google, Yahoo commit to ‘World IPv6 Day’ trial
By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World January 12, 2011 09:02 AM ET Several of the Internet’s most popular Web sites – including Facebook, Google and Yahoo – have agreed to participate in the first global-scale trial of IPv6, the long-anticipated