Social networking site with over 500 million users worldwide. The site was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerburg, a Harvard student at the time of founding. The company employs 1,400 and has its European, African and Middle East headquarters in Dublin.
The European Cup champions’ Facebook page jumped by almost 2,000 fans alone on the Heineken Cup weekend, according to data on website which tracks Irish Facebook traffic.
New York representative Anthony Weiner admitted to sending a picture of his covered genitals to a follower on Twitter as well as conducting other inappropriate affairs over social media sites.
The ban is in line with a nearly 20-year-old law that says mentioning such services is an act of advertising. It has been criticised as ridiculous in some quarters.
A new study has found that some big brands have no social media features on their eCommerce sites at all, while others, like HMV, Amazon and Irish site Elverys are making the most of the likes of Facebook and Twitter.
Angela Hoyt, a Red Cross worker who had just returned from a mission in Pakistan, reported her ex for harrassment after her hacked her Facebook account and posted an anti-Israeli video.
The billionaire businessman and racehorse owner is still seeking damages for defamation and fraudulent misrepresentation over Facebook profiles purporting to be him.
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The Facebook founder is in Dublin to visit the company’s European HQ. He reportedly went for some drinks in the city last night, and may attend a Facebook-hosted Bell X1 gig tonight.
Another day of protests is planned for tomorrow, and messages on Facebook are urging the armed forces to break with the regime and join those leading the revolt against president Bashar Assad.
The founder of the social networking site says his comments about opening the site to under-13s were taken out of context. He’s part of a team addressing today’s G8 summit on internet issues.
Toyota is setting up a social networking service with the help of a US Internet company and Microsoft so drivers can interact with their cars in ways similar to Twitter and Facebook.
The tragedy of Acton Beale, 20, has focused attention on the “lying down game” phenomenon – with even the man who started the planking craze saying it has gone too far.
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Hundreds of thousands of Facebook apps may have leaked ‘access tokens’ to Facebook users’ actions and profiles, according to security company Symantec.
A study in the US has found that the social networking giant is increasingly determining what news people are reading online but not as much as Google.
Emily Longley, 17, was found dead at a house in Dorset in Britain three days after she posted on Facebook claiming that she had a stalker. Her death is being treated as “unexplained.”
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SIXTY-EIGHT PER cent of patients are unaware that they can officially complain about their hospital stay.
An Irish Society for Quality and Safety in Healthcare survey revealed that although 93 per cent of the patients surveyed were satisfied with the service they received, one in every five wanted to discuss an area of dissatisfaction but a third felt they never had the opportunity to do so.
The aspects of care that patients were most dissatisfied with included emergency department conditions and waiting times and lack of information about hospital routines, tests, medication side effects and after-care.
So today we want to know: Have you ever lodged a complaint about a hospital?
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