PALO ALTO, Calif., May 26 (UPI) -- U.S. Internet giant Facebook said a Russian firm, Digital Sky Technologies, has purchased 1.96 percent of the company for $200 million.
WASHINGTON, April 13 (UPI) -- The online social networking site Facebook is growing in popularity among older Americans, a U.S. researcher says.
PALO ALTO, Calif., March 11 (UPI) -- Arabic and Hebrew versions of the popular social networking Web site, Facebook, are now available, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company has announced.
LONDON, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Social networking Web site Facebook has removed a group titled "Dead Babies Make Me Laugh" after protests from mothers in Britain who had lost children.
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 3 (UPI) -- The rift between two California high-tech giants, Facebook and Google, is about control of Internet users, industry analysts said.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, March 31 (UPI) -- A Saudi woman's alleged death at her father's hands has been cited by a Muslim cleric in his criticism of the Internet social networking site Facebook.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Some U.S. Christian teens and young adults are replacing fatty foods or meat with social networking Web sites as the thing they prefer to give up for for Lent.
LONDON, Jan. 16 (UPI) -- A face-off between old-school Scrabble and high-tech Facebook could spell the demise of a popular diversion for millions of game players worldwide.
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Microsoft Corp. is talking with Facebook Inc. about buying 5 percent of the U.S. social-networking Web site for up to $500 million, a report said Monday.
LONDON, July 22 (UPI) -- The social networking Web site Facebook has a new claim to fame -- the creation of its first "boy band," a British quartet of classical musicians.
