Scrabulous has been exterminated from Facebook once and for all, and not just in the U.S.A. and Canada but in the U.K. and Australia as well.
Mattel Inc., which owns the rights to the Scrabulous IP outside the United States, strongly continued Hasbo’s last month’s initiative and supported them with a new takedown notice. The latter [...]
Facebook has overtaken MySpace to become the world’s most popular social networking site with 132 million unique visitors in June, according to new figures from web tracking firm ComScore.
The study also found that Facebook’s visitor growth far outpaced that of MySpace, with Facebook visits up 153 per cent on an annual basis, compared to just [...]
Social networking giant Facebook has filed a copyright infringement suit against a German counterpart, according to the Financial Times. StudiVZ is accused of “copying the look, feel, features and services” of Facebook, including its “wall” feature, according to the complaint filed Friday in California, the Financial Times reported.
The suit asserts that the sites are so [...]
Facebook’s decision to release under open source a large-scale data management project similar to – and inspired by – Google’s BigTable has received backing from an unusual quarter: Microsoft.
Data center futures architect and distinguished database developer James Hamilton, has complemented the pimply faced social network for releasing what he said “looks like a well-engineered system.”
Hamilton [...]
Microsoft is considering buying the social notworking site Facebook.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the shy and retiring, softly spoken Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been running around with money burning a hole in his ample pockets after his failed takeover of Yahoo.
Volish bankers have been having a chat with Facebook to see if it [...]