According to experts, Facebook, which is already the world's largest social networking company, will have to increasing focus on mobile Internet platform to maintain growth in the future.

The company must aggressive reach out to mobile phone users around the world and offer an advertising platform to generate more mobile Internet revenues.

New Delhi, Feb 7 - The website of a petitioner and Islamic scholar who dragged Facebook, Google, Yahoo and others to court over allegedly objectionable content has been defaced and left with a message "Probably best not to piss the social networking sites off!"

Petitioner Mufti Aijaz Arshad Qasmi told IANS that his website www. fatwaonline. in has been defaced for the past one week. He now plans to file a police complaint.

World's largest social networking site, Facebook has attracted a massive 40 million users in the South-East-Asian country of Indonesia. The country has the third largest community of Facebook users in the and interesting, to many users, Faebook is all they use on the Internet. The cheap mobile phones with internet access has made it possible for the users to use the social network with the push of a button without even realizing that they are actually using internet.

Mark Zuckerberg, the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of the world’s largest social networking site, Facebook has announced that the company is preparing for an Initial Public Offering (IPO).

According to a report by comScore Inc, Facebook has accounted for about 28 percent of online display-advertisements in 2011.

The social networking giant had recorded 21 percent of impressions in the previous year, according to comScore. Facebook remained ahead of Yahoo, which remained No. 2 with 11 percent while Microsoft was third at 4.5 percent.

London, Jan 28 Social-networking giant Facebook is planning to file papers for its Initial Public Offering as early as next week, that could value the website at 75 billion to 100 billion dollars.Under US law, Facebook will have to start disclosing its financial results from April because it has over 500 investors.

The IPO, which is expected to raise about 10 billion dollars, is set to make its founder Mark Zuckerberg a billionaire several times over.

The group is thought to be keen to list on the New York Stock Exchange, rather than the more tech heavy Nasdaq, The Telegraph reports.

World’s largest social networking site, Facebook is adding a host of new apps for the users using Timeline in order to encourage users to share more on the network.

The site will now have apps for sharing favorite restaurants, travel spots, movies, online deals and others besides apps for music, news and video, which has been available some time.

Social networking giant, Facebook is encouraging users to share more information on the social networking platform through dozens of new types of posts, including "bought," "read" and "want."

The company added sixty applications that will allow users to publish information automatically to Facebook. Facebook launched the new apps at a news conference at a fashionable night club. Several of these new apps are newer versions of existing online services or mobile apps.

London, Jan 18 - While logging into Facebook account many times a day in office or at home may have turned an irresistible habit for a lot of people, particularly the young, a study has said being glued to it could actually be making people sadder.

According to the study by Utah Valley University, the more the people use the hugely popular social networking website, the more they will believe that others are much happier, the Daily Mail reported.

According to various reports, social networking giant, Facebook might come out with its long-anticipated initial public offering (IPO) in the third week of May 2012.

The event will gather much interest in the Silicon Valley this year as Facebook joints many young firms in going public. All Things Digital blog of The Wall Street Journal reported this Monday that Facebook's IPO is expected in the third week of May.

Social networking major, Facebook is now planning for its initial public offerings (IPO), which will be the biggest ever for a web company.

The company has to attract investors in the financial markets, proving to the world that it can be a successful name in the stock market. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, who is behind the success of the social network, now has the responsibility to lead the charge into the world of stock market. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg will prove to be essential in the initiative.

The "Ramnit" computer malware is now targeting thousands of Facebook users and has already stolen thousands of users' login credentials. Security analysts say that the new variant of financial malware is spreading on the social networking website and is stealing account details for the social networking service. The malware was originally designed to track harvest information such as browser cookies and banking login credentials.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which is looking into the allegations of privacy breach by Facebook, has accused the social networking giant of engaging in “unfair and deceptive” practices and has subjected the company to privacy audits for the next twenty years.

According to a new study, the size of a part of the brain is linked to the number of friends a person has on Facebook.

The study from University College London showed that people with a higher number of Facebook friends have denser grey matter in certain regions of the brain. This linking may indicate that social networking sites are altering people’s brains.

Social networking site, Facebook has entered into an agreement with security firm Websense to fight against phishing and malwares.

The site will warn users if they are being directed to a malicious website from next week. This indicates that the social network will now check each post in the network posted by millions of its users. Several users were led to virus laden websites through links posted unknowingly on the site by some users.

Canberra, Sept 26 : An Australian technologist has claimed that Facebook can track the web pages you visit, even when you are logged out of the social networking giant.

According to Wollongong-based Nik Cubrilovic, when the user is logged out of Facebook, rather than deleting its tracking cookies, the site merely modifies them, maintaining account information and other unique tokens that can be used to identify its users.

London, Sept 24 : A quirk in Facebook''s latest redesign has now made it easy for the users to see who has removed them from their friend list.

Previously, the only way to tell someone had unfriended you was to go to their page and notice that you have lost access to their personal details.

But the social networking giant's newly introduced `Timeline', that shows all activities of a user in chronological order, enables users to see which friend `unfriended' them, Fox News reports.

London, Sept 23: Mark Zuckerberg ignored all the protests of Facebook users at the changes made to news feeds, as he announced more radical shifts to the site with completely new profile pages covering years even before the site was created.

The founder of the social networking site unveiled some big changes with the introduction of the new `timeline' profile pages at the company's f8 conference in San Francisco.

UK's biggest Alcohol maker, Diageo which produces drinks including Smirnoff vodka, Guinness and Johnnie Walker whiskey, is facing criticism for allegedly targeting children on Facebook through advertisements of alcoholic beverages.

Diageo has entered into a multi-million-pound deal with Facebook to place advertisements on the site. It affirms that the advertisements only appear on sections of the site, which is not accessible by anyone under the age of 18 years.

London, Sept 20 : Social networking giant Facebook is now working on a feature, which will help its users to channel their profile directly to a linked Twitter account.

The change will be a notable one, given the fact that presently Facebook users can connect to Twitter only through Facebook pages that are specifically meant for bands, businesses, and celebrities and other public personalities.

Facebook has said linking will be coming "soon" but gave no specific date, the BBC reports.