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• Article | 25/05/2012 Refund for some Facebook investors

  Morgan Stanley, the lead investment bank in Facebook's troubled initial public offering, will compensate retail investors who overpaid when they bough...
• Article | 25/05/2012 China's Sina Weibo targeting Japanese advertisers

  One of China's top Twitter-like sites, Sina Weibo, is working to attract Japanese companies to advertise on its platform by helping the firms open and...
• Article | 24/05/2012 Facebook beefs up mobile photo sharing with Camera

  Facebook introduced its own mobile photo app, Camera, on Thursday, bringing richer photo-sharing features to the platform even before the company clos...
• Article | 23/05/2012 Facebook to settle class-action suit over Sponsored Stories

  Facebook is to settle a class-action lawsuit in California that accused it of appropriating its users' likenesses for its Sponsored Stories advertisin...
• Article | 23/05/2012 Phones are distractions during catch-ups

  Sick of your friends tweeting during dinner or constantly texting on nights out?
• Article | 21/05/2012 Reports: Nasdaq admits technical bugs affected Facebook IPO trading

  Technical problems at the Nasdaq exchange affected the trading of Facebook shares on Friday, the much-anticipated day of its IPO (initial public offer...
• Article | 19/05/2012 Facebook buys mobile e-commerce app Karma

  The mobile gift-giving app Karma has announced it has been acquired by Facebook. The announcement came shortly after the markets closed on Facebook's...
• Article | 16/05/2012 Zeus variant tricks Facebook, webmail users into exposing card details

  A new variant of the Zeus trojan tricks users into exposing their debit card details by displaying rogue offers when they visit Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo...
• Article | 15/05/2012 Twitter will deliver weekly highlights via email

  Twitter will begin delivering a weekly email digest to highlight for users the tweets they are most likely to be interested in, the company said Monda...
• Article | 15/05/2012 Facebook privacy head suggests company will serve ads on other sites

  Facebook's head of privacy policy, Erin Egan, hinted in a Web chat on Monday that Facebook would begin serving targeted ads to users on third-party we...
• Article | 12/05/2012 Facebook proposes more changes to privacy policy

  Facebook said on Friday that it intends to make further changes to its privacy policy in order to respond to an audit by the Irish government, but pri...
• Article | 11/05/2012 Twitter acquires email marketer RestEngine

  Twitter has acquired RestEngine, a two-and-half-year-old company that has helped social app publishers send emails based on a user's social graph, Res...
• Article | 11/05/2012 California moves to stop employers demanding Facebook passwords

  The California assembly passed a bill on Thursday that prevents employers from demanding job applicants' passwords for accounts on Facebook or other s...
• Article | 11/05/2012 Facebook's Instagram buy could be delayed by FTC, report says

  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched a probe of Facebook's proposed acquisition of Instagram that could delay the closing of the deal, the F...
• Article | 11/05/2012 Microsoft revamps Bing to include interactive social sidebar

  Bing will soon include a search interface that offers social search results in a separate column to the right of the returned links, Microsoft said on...