Social-networking site Facebook has borrowed $100 million to help keep up with its explosive growth. Menlo Park, Calif.-based venture loan firm TriplePoint is helping...

Facebook will announce later today Facebook Connect, which has similar functionality to MySpace Data Availability, announced just yesterday. The actual product won’t...

Facebook Inc. is loosening its grip on millions of personal profiles to allow inhabitants of its popular Internet hangout to transplant the information and applications...

The popular online social hangout Facebook says it’s setting up a new system that will allow its 70 million users to take their personal profiles with them as...

Facebook, the world’s second-largest social networking Web site, will add more than 40 new safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and...

Officials from several states say Facebook has agreed to implement more than 40 safeguards to protect younger users.

A Texas woman has sued Blockbuster Inc. alleging the video rental company transmitted her personal information to Facebook.com through the Web site’s Beacon...

Forget Facebook, MySpace or any other online hangout that boasts tens or hundreds of millions of people. For Teresa Munoz, Athlinks, population 34,000, is the place to...

Kevin Rose writes a somewhat cryptic blog post announcing that Digg has done an ad deal with Microsoft. He says it’s a deal similar to the one Facebook signed with...

I get asked all the time why a business owner should be blogging or engaged in social media. The answer I give almost always revolves around creating relationships. If...

Israeli defense officials say they have identified an unlikely new threat to national security _ Facebook.

Ever-accelerating internet and other mobile marketing technologies have brought the world to the brink of a revolution in the way we live and work. The new internet...

The British government wants to ban convicted pedophiles from using social networking Web sites such as Facebook, the Home Office said Friday.

A woman was beaten up and shot dead by her father for talking online with a man she met on the website Facebook. The case was reported on a Saudi Arabian news site as...

On the agenda: A student who got into a shouting match with a faculty member. Another who harassed a female classmate. Someone found sleeping in a car. And a student...

Six months after putting up a facebook profile, I’m utterly bored. I’ve said it. I’m sure I’ll be assaulted by the Facebook cultists, but it’s true. I had...

The Associated Press reported this afternoon that its reporters were able to use an undisclosed method to access private photos on Facebook, including some from Paris...

A security lapse made it possible for unwelcome strangers to peruse personal photos posted on Facebook Inc.’s popular online hangout, circumventing a recent...

For those of you who loath the idea of Facebook using your web activities for their benefit with out having you permission, this post describes how to block Facebook...