As one of the earliest investors in Facebook, Microsoft stands to gain a great deal from the social network’s initial public offer next month. That’s a fantastic incentive for the Redmond-based software giant to put anything on top of the social network, including A Year In The Like.
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Dropbox has finally joined the growing number of file-sharing applications that connect to Facebook so that people can share content with friends.
Microsoft’s latest attempt to inject life into its middling MSN Web portal is msnNOW, which aims to be a one-stop shop for topics and breaking news getting the most buzz from Facebook, Twitter, Bing, and BreakingNews.com.
Continuing to demand the technically impossible, a court in India issued another threat against Facebook, threatening to block the social network and other websites, including Google, if “offensive and objectionable” content is not removed.
Mac users now have another document-sharing option with the release of ScanDrop for Mac and ScanDrop Lite by OfficeDrop.
Everyone with Facebook’s new timeline profile, take one step forward. Internet Explorer 7 users: Not so fast.
The social network quietly began testing Messenger for Windows, announcing the debut of the trial app — which allows users to exchange Facebook messages without being logged into the social network — on its help center.
Facebook is the second most popular website in the U.K., where women in their 50s are the fastest growing part of the site’s membership.
Dan Pritchett, executive vice president for Logos Bible Software, tells us how his company successfully optimized its placement in Bing search results after the integration with Facebook.
Facebook has had the strongest pull in recruitment of top technology talent for some time now, and now we’ve got an infographic quantifying the extent to which the social network is out-recruiting the competition.
