Social networking site with over 500 million users worldwide. The site was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerburg, a Harvard student at the time of founding. The company employs 1,400 and has its European, African and Middle East headquarters in Dublin.
# facebook - Wednesday 20 February, 2013
Apple hit by cyber attack, says no data was stolen
“There is no evidence that any data left Apple,” Apple said as it confirmed an attack similar to one carried out on Facebook recently.
# facebook - Monday 18 February, 2013
The 10 jobs we’d REALLY like to see at Facebook
We just want to make the world (i.e. Facebook) a better place. These are the positions they should be filling at Facebook HQ.
The 5 at 5: Monday
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
Facebook creates 100 more jobs in Dublin
The recruitment process has already started for the new positions, which will bring the Dublin workforce to 500.
# facebook - Sunday 17 February, 2013
Mark Zuckerberg: A life in quotes
Presenting the 15 quotes that define the CEO’s life in tech.
# facebook - Saturday 16 February, 2013
Facebook network hit by ‘sophisticated’ cyber attack
The social networking giant said it found no evidence any user data was compromised.
The 9 at 9: Saturday
Good morning. Here are nine things to know before you start your day.
# facebook - Thursday 14 February, 2013
Mark Zuckerberg’s sister moves from Facebook to real books
Randi Zuckerberg is planning a memoir about her time at Facebook, among other things.
# facebook - Wednesday 13 February, 2013
Facebook sued over ‘like’ and ‘share’ buttons
The family of a Dutch inventor, who died in 2004, are suing the company for alleged patent infringement.
# facebook - Monday 11 February, 2013
How social media connected people in the US snowstorm
“I guess what’s better is that you are not sitting here waiting for the 6 o’clock news, waiting to find out what’s going on.”
# facebook - Friday 8 February, 2013
PIC: Dad pays daughter $200 in ‘Facebook deactivation agreement’
The 14-year-old suggested the idea.
# facebook - Thursday 7 February, 2013
The Evening Fix… now with added Facebook privacy
Here are the things we learned, loved and shared today.
# facebook - Tuesday 5 February, 2013
‘Facebook account would not be helpful to us’ – Ryanair’s new spokesperson
The incoming head of communications Robin Kiely says that tapping into social media sites would require the airline to employ more people to deal with queries.
Half of Irish adults now ‘two-screening’ while watching TV
A survey from Sky shows that almost 50 per cent of adults now text, tweet or use Facebook to discuss what they watch.
# facebook - Saturday 2 February, 2013
# facebook - Wednesday 30 January, 2013
Anonymous Facebook sex app claims five new users a minute
‘Bang With Friends’ lets users designate which friends they’d like to sleep with – and alerts them of any match.
Tesco’s Facebook page is the best thing ever
Plus, the issue that should be the retailer’s top priority.
# facebook - Monday 28 January, 2013
MEP wants Brussels to examine legality of new Facebook search
Labour’s Phil Prendergast says the new graph search may be a breach of a citizen’s right to protect their personal data.
# facebook - Sunday 27 January, 2013
Weird Wide Web – Steampunk, blocking goggles and a new looks-based dating app…
All of your essential tech and social media news for the week in one byte-sized portion.
# facebook - Thursday 24 January, 2013
Twitter unveils new 6-second video app called Vine
The new feature allows users to take short looping videos which can be shared on social media.
# facebook - Wednesday 23 January, 2013
Unsettling Tumblr of the Day: Actual Facebook Graph Searches
Well, this is weird.
# facebook - Tuesday 22 January, 2013
Union flag pages under review as Facebook receives court order
A number of protest pages are currently unavailable in the UK as Facebook carries out its investigation.
# facebook - Sunday 20 January, 2013
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.
# facebook - Saturday 19 January, 2013
7 essential rules of social media etiquette
How many of these rules have you broken?
# facebook - Thursday 17 January, 2013
Shane McGrath: ‘I thought it was very uncalled for’
A leading inter-county hurler has highlighted the social media abuse players suffer as an unsettling new trend creeping into the game.
# facebook - Tuesday 15 January, 2013
Facebook launches its latest feature – Graph Search
The annoucement was made earlier today by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
# facebook - Wednesday 9 January, 2013
Minister: Some politicians fear ‘transfer of power’ created by social media
Ciarán Cannon believes that social media does not need to be subjected to any more regulation than is already in place and has hit out at some who do not understand or fear sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Column: Politicians should engage in social media, not regulate it
Some fear social media because they misunderstand it or fear power being transferred from the few to the many but it needs no more or no less regulation than our existing methods, argues junior minister Ciarán Cannon.
# facebook - Saturday 5 January, 2013
Fitzgerald concerned about difficulty of regulating cyberbullying sites
The Minister for Children admits that given the “global and open nature of the internet”, it may be difficult to regulate the likes of Ask.fm.
# facebook - Friday 4 January, 2013
Column: Social media has society in a panic. What does that tell us?
There is a political lesson behind the widespread condemnations of social media, writes Gavan Titley.
South African Olympian Stander killed in road accident
The 25-year-old was UCI Mountain Bike World Cup under-23 men’s cross-country 2009 world champion.
# facebook - Sunday 30 December, 2012
Sitdown Sunday: The 20 deadliest reads of 2012
It’s been a year of great writing. Here’s the very best from around the web.
# facebook - Friday 28 December, 2012
The 10 most-read Wikipedia entries of 2012
A social media site was the topic most people wanted to look up. But which one was it?
# facebook - Wednesday 26 December, 2012
Here are our top 10 most tweeted articles in 2012
From Maeve Binchy to the fatal Swedish House Mafia concert, these are TheJournal.ie stories which were shared the most on Twitter this year.
# facebook - Sunday 23 December, 2012
Weird Wide Web: the week in online oddities
The internet’s best offerings in social media, tech and science news.
# facebook - Saturday 22 December, 2012
Tweets, tablets and patents: 2012 in tech
Has Apple peaked? Has Microsoft lost its way? Is Twitter just here for the tax? Was Instagram worth the $1bn?
# facebook - Thursday 20 December, 2012
‘Careless’ employees more of an IT security risk than hackers – survey
A survey of nearly 300 IT professionals in Irish companies has identified their concerns about employees’ computer habits at work.
# facebook - Monday 17 December, 2012
Morgan Stanley fined $5 million over Facebook IPO
Morgan Stanley agreed to the civil penalty without either admitting or denying the charges against them.
# facebook - Sunday 16 December, 2012
Thousands ‘Like’ Garda’s crime-fighting Facebook page
Meath’s Crime Prevention Officer has set up a Facebook page dedicated to crime in the county – and it has proven to be extremely popular.
Column: Ireland has a bullying crisis. Here’s what my school did about it.
Bullying is in the spotlight again after a series of tragedies. Eimhear Lynch, 16, describes how she and her friends took action.
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