Brit office workers to be allowed 10-minute ‘Facebook break’!

April 30th, 2009 Let workers text and Twitter, business owners say NEW YORK — When Marty Kotis looked at his company's monthly wireless bill, he found a stunning charge — for 2,500 text messages on a single staffer's phone. There was more: Another staffer had 800, and a third, 700.

July 15th, 2009 Google shuts office in India over swine flu fearsHYDERABAD, India — Internet search leader Google Inc. shut one of its offices in southern India for two days after an employee tested positive for swine flu, a company statement said Wednesday.

August 29th, 2009 LONDON - Almost half of web users in the UK have posted photos and videos to popular content-sharing sites such as Facebook and YouTube in the last year, reveals a new survey. According to the poll from the Office for National Statistics, around 40 per cent of those using the Internet had uploaded messages on chat sites, blogs and news groups in the last year as compared to 20 per cent in 2008.

March 30th, 2009 Now this was the last thing to happen and it has now. Much to your joy, now date while you study and study while you make friends online.

August 12th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit teenage girl is said to have allegedly been gang raped so that she could be "s****** and tagged" on Facebook. Jurors were told that three rapists took snaps of the 18-year-old on a mobile and told her: "You are going to be s****** and tagged on Facebook".

March 6th, 2009 In my earlier article I'd informed you on the Facebook updates. For all you Facebook users who love to share your whereabouts on social platforms, I have something more.

September 15th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook, the world's largest social network on the internet, is finally turning a profit, the privately held company said. The Silicon Valley, California, company, which was started six years ago by a student at Harvard University, said late Tuesday that it had reached a positive cash flow for the first time and also passed the 300-million user mark.

March 31st, 2009 LONDON - A Brit man is facing divorce after his wife spotted his car parked outside another woman's house, via Google's Street View application. His wife saw the Range Rover using the Internet giant's new Street View service, while she was spying on a female friend's home.

June 15th, 2009 Voila! Facebook has allowed the users to register custom usernames from 12:01 a.m. EDT Saturday onwards.

August 17th, 2009 Just uploaded Facebook for iPhone 3.0 to the App Store for review this is what Joe Hewitt was found announcing in Twitter. Facebook has just submitted a 3.0 version of their iPhone application to App store.

June 16th, 2009 LONDON - A waitress won 3,000-pounds in damages yesterday after being told to wear an "indecent" dress - despite posing in a plunging top on her Facebook page. Muslim Fata Lemes, 33, walked out of her pub job after just eight days as the figure-hugging red gown made her "feel like a prostitute".

May 7th, 2009 LONDON - A robot is being given its own Facebook profile page in a bid to bridge the divide between humans and robots. With the development, researchers are hoping to foster meaningful relationships with people.

June 8th, 2009 In a recent turn of events, Google Inc. AdWord chief, Grady Burnett would be switching to the online ad sales division at popular online social network Facebook Inc.

September 16th, 2009 LONDON - Facebook has announced that it has crossed a benchmark of 300 million active monthly users from across the world and also started raking in profits ahead of schedule. Founder of the world's largest social networking site Mark Zuckerberg said the company had not expected to begin reaping financial benefits until sometime next year.

July 1st, 2009 Facebook plans to simplify privacy settingsNEW YORK — Facebook is overhauling its privacy controls over the next several weeks in an attempt to simplify its users' ability to control who sees the information they share on the site. Privacy has been a central, often thorny issue for Facebook because so many people use it to share personal information with their friends and family and beyond.