Facebook now has 250 million users

April 9th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Five years after it was founded in a Harvard dorm room, the online social networking site Facebook has registered its 200 millionth user, the site confirmed Thursday. 'Growing rapidly to 200 million users is a really good start, but we've always known that in order for Facebook to help people represent everything that is happening in their world, everyone needs to have a voice,' said Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

March 24th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - More than 1.7 million Facebook users have joined a protest against another redesign of the popular social networking site, in one of the biggest consumer revolts seen in the online world. As of midday Monday, the Facebook group called Petition Against the New Facebook had 1,727,394 disgruntled members, while a Facebook-sponsored poll on the redesign had received more than 1.2 million votes, with just 75,000 approving the new look.

September 21st, 2009 Facebook shuts down thorny marketing toolNEW YORK — Facebook is closing an uncomfortable chapter in its five-year history. The social network says it will shut down Beacon, a program that tracks users' activities on other Web sites.

May 15th, 2009 LONDON - In the latest phishing scam to hit Facebook, almost 200 million users of the social networking site are at the risk of being robbed of their passwords. A Facebook spokesman has said that Internet fraudsters have stolen the passwords of a number of members in a successful attack on May 14.

August 5th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Social networking website Facebook continues its rapid rise and has already become the fourth most trafficked website in the world, technology blog TechCrunch has reported. In June this year, Facebook attracted a total of 340 million unique visitors globally, trailing only Google, Microsoft and Yahoo sites, the report said, citing latest results from market research firm comScore.

September 5th, 2009 LONDON - Facebook's free online game Farmville, which allows users to run their own virtual farm, is set to become the most popular application on the social networking site. Farmville, which allows Facebook members to plant, grow, and harvest virtual crops, trees, raise livestock, invest in farm equipment and sell their produce for profit, has become very popular ever since it was launched on June 19.

June 25th, 2009 Facebook testing new control for shielding updates PALO ALTO, Calif. — Facebook is testing new privacy controls that will allow the online hangout's roughly 200 million users to decide who should see each of their personal updates.

September 15th, 2009 Facebook says it passed key financial milestoneSAN FRANCISCO — Facebook Inc. said Tuesday it achieved an important financial milestone, bringing in more money than it spent in the last quarter.

June 10th, 2009 Facebook, like MySpace, lets users show full nameNEW YORK — Facebook is further embracing the real name culture it touts as one of its founding principles — and catching up with rival MySpace in the process. Starting at 12:01 a.m.

September 15th, 2009 Facebook says it's bringing in more than it spendsSAN FRANCISCO — Facebook says it is now bringing in more money than it is spending. The social networking site had previously said it expected to achieve this goal sometime next year.

October 31st, 2009 TORONTO - Facebook has won 712 million dollars in damages after a California court ruled against a spammer for trying to get personal information from the users of the social networking website. The court ordered Sanford Wallace to pay Facebook the money after the company complained that he had used the site to induce members to click on messages that appeared legitimate but were actually designed to capture personal information.

July 10th, 2009 Power.com sues Facebook over access to users dataNEW YORK — A small Web company is handing the world's biggest online hangout a counterpunch. Power.com has sued Facebook, saying the site doesn't follow its own policy of giving users control over the content they share.

August 13th, 2009 If MySpace can have a Lite View Version why not Facebook?  In a bid to take on its arch-rival, the Social networking giant rolled out a slimmer version of its web site to the test audience. Facebook Lite is the new face of Facebook targeted at narrowband users.

July 13th, 2009 Offer puts value of at least $6.5B on FacebookNEW YORK — How much is Facebook worth? A Russian investment firm appears to put it at $6.5 billion to $10 billion. The investment group, Digital Sky Technologies, said Monday it will buy up to $100 million worth of Facebook shares from current and former employees.

April 27th, 2009 The most popular social networking site on a global scale, Facebook is trying to welcome developers by keeping some of the core floodgates open so that they get familiar with the system in a better way. If you remember well, most of the recent changes in Facebook has brought about agitation from the Facebook crowd.