Facebook has finally started taking action against its knockoff sites, and has first sued the one most easily accessible in terms of regulatory laws: it has filed a copyright lawsuit…

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All it takes, conventional wisdom goes, for the big US social networks to overcome the European upstarts is to start offering themselves in languages other than English. So what exactly…

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— Online Catch Up For Channel 4: Channel 4 has rolled out a free seven-day catch-up service on channel4.com, reports NMA.co.uk. The click-and-play streaming service is in addition to its…

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Look out, pokers! Just in time for “Facebook fatigue”, Slide - perhaps more commonly known for its slideshow widget - is about to put British advertisers on its SuperPoke, FunWall…

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-- VideoJug: I’m not sure when starting a MySpace profile qualified as a “deal”, but that’s what Telegraph.co.uk and Media Week say Canary Wharf-based how-to video site VideoJug has done…

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Social networks may be all the rage with consumers, but some media operators remain uncertain and downright fearful that syndicating content to the sites will turn them into mere “organ…

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After growing its UK audience for 17 straight months, Facebook’s British unique visitor count fell five percent from December to January, Nielsen Online reports. The audience fell from 8.9 million…

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Building off the success of its online developer platform, Facebook launched a mobile platform for wireless carriers today, according to IDG. Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is already using it in Germany…

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Irish ministers and development agencies are trying to tempt Facebook to the Emerald Isle, the Irish Times reports, claiming enterprise minister Micheál Martin met Facebook executives during an October trip…

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Updated below: Facebook is continuing to raise money, though this one seems to be a relatively smaller amount and mainly strategic for European expansion: it has taken an undisclosed amount…

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Facebook is ready to counterattack Google’s (NSDQ: GOOG) OpenSocial. The site revealed today that its Facebook Platform would be made available to other social networking sites, allowing developers to easily…

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German social network start-up Kaioo hopes to become an online refuge for users seeking a haven from social networks such as MySpace and Facebook, where, as the IHT reports, “advertising…

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The European Union expects to bring its regulatory power to bear on online behavioral targeting practices next year, as protests over privacy concerns has begun to stir a potential backlash…

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Here’s a Friday footnote to this week’s kerfuffle where UK digital media consultancy Broadsight grumbled about having its Facebook profile deleted while the social network meanwhile launched its own social…

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It must be a frustrating week to be a zeitgeist. First, the venerable Times’ speculative report Facebook is buying in to China is flatly denied. Second, Channel 4 makes what…

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More details on Facebook’s nascent dedicated UK operations - opening this week, the Soho Square, London, office ”will start with a five-strong team and is aiming to employ more than…

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The leaving parties are coming thick and fast now at Yahoo. Just days after the company appointed a new marketing director, news is emerging of two more departures from Yahoo…

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Sometimes it takes an outsider to call a spade a spade: Guy Hands, the new owner of EMI after the label was bought by his private equity house Terra Firma,…

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Facebook has finally found the person who will spearhead the opening of its UK sales operation - and he’s coming from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). The social network’s new UK sales…

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If Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) wanted to buy a stake in Facebook (as last week’s WSJ indicated), perhaps comments from the Redmond company’s CEO today were an attempt to negotiate a…

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Facebook is translating its site to languages other than English as part of “an ambitious overseas expansion”, according to anonymous sources cited by FT.com. The social network has experienced phenomenal…

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Today, numerous news outlets ran new data showing Facebook has become the UK’s most popular social network. Huh? I thought Bebo claimed that honour? Despite today’s announcement, which showed Facebook…

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Half of all French and 45 percent of Germans do it. That’s social networking. ComScore (NSDQ: SCOR) data for July has given an insight in to the growth of the…

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Facebook has picked the location for its forthcoming London office - it’s Soho Square - and, following a year in which the ex US college network became the zeitgeist amongst…

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For months, MySpace has played down the phenomenal growth of rival Facebook. The former university network this summer posted annual UK growth of 2,146 percent (according to comScore), while some…

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