19 Aug 2010
| by Sarah Shearman
Facebook has launched its first location based application for iPhones and mobile phones in the US...Facebook Places allows users to 'check in' at locations on their phones, and in doing so ...
over too much personal data via social media platforms such as Facebook.
Yesterday, location based ...
on Foursquare.
Latest figures show Facebook is now used by moe than 150 million mobile users worldwide ...
26 Mar 2008
| by Gareth Jones
LONDON - Facebook is giving users the chance to opt out of its SocialAds system to allay growing...to remove themselves from the system, which automatically alerts a user s Facebook friends about their recent purchases from online retailers. Facebook launched the SocialAds service last Nov-ember as part ...
back consumer trust thus ensuring the survival of Facebook s fledgling commercial offering. However ...
04 May 2012
| by Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has created a nine-month Facebook campaign targeting its UK consumer base...The activity, called 'The Travel Diaries' goes live today (4 May). It gives KLM's Facebook fans ...
, consumers must become fans of the KLM Facebook page and answer one question about the short film on display ...
is opened.
KLM said that it hopes to increase its 47,000-strong UK Facebook fanbase by at least 6 ...
17 Jul 2009
| by Dan Leahul
LONDON - The Canadian government has slammed Facebook's privacy policy, saying the social..."serious gaps" in Facebook's privacy policy, specifically when the website holds on to its users' personal ...
allowed to retain such information as long as is deemed necessary. Facebook's privacy practices were ...
through Facebook applications, a popular platform for advertisers. Stoddart said: "Facebook has ...
22 Aug 2008
| by Daniel Farey-Jones
LONDON - Facebook is involving eight advertisers in a September beta test of a new ad format...The new format is dubbed an 'engagement ad', reflecting Facebook's expectation that it will prove ...
that the Facebook community is more resistant to being served traditional ads than users of other more media-focused sites such as Bebo and MySpace. "The whole concept of viewing and sharing is what Facebook is all ...
13 May 2010
| by Anne Cassidy
LONDON - European Commission advisers have slammed Facebook, accusing the social network site...networking site's default setting "unacceptable". Facebook was told to have default settings that guaranteed ...
29 Working Party is the idea of using pseudonyms for individual Facebook users to ensure their privacy is protected. A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the company had received a letter from 'The ...
20 Jan 2012
| by Sarah Shearman
Southern Comfort, the Brown Forman-owned spirits brand, has launched a Facebook campaign featuring...It is inviting Facebook users to submit New Year's resolutions via an app on its brand page and Baron Jazz will send back a personalised video message, which encourages them to "undo" their plans and "embrace the unexpected".
Grape Digital has created the campaign. The agency was appointed ...
03 Apr 2012
| by Matthew Chapman
Ikea is extending the 'Sleep Like A Princess' positioning used for its beds range with a Facebook...will direct recipients to the Ikea Facebook page where members can enter a competition to win everything they need from Ikea to get a "perfect" night's sleep.
A video at the top of the Facebook page will show ...
Vimeo and on Ikea's YouTube channel, in order to drive people to the Facebook competition page ...
17 Jul 2008
| by Ben Bold
LONDON - Facebook inadvertently disclosed the birth dates of many of the 80m users who had opted...consultant at security firm Sophos, while he was having a look at Facebook 's new design for profile pages ...
date of birth, which can be a golden nugget for a committed identity thief." Facebook responded by patching the breach within hours of Cluley's discovery. In a statement, Facebook said: "For a brief period ...
06 Aug 2007
| by Alex Donohue
LONDON - Directory enquiries company 118 118 has apparently succeeded in shutting down a Facebook...The Facebook group, which was called The Survivors of 118 118 , included posts from members ...
following an appeal by 118 118 to Facebook, although it is not clear what exactly caused the action. 118 118 ...
in a series of high profile incidents involving Facebook recently. Last week, Vodafone and First Direct ...