Facebook is testing a Reddit-style downvoting option on comments on public Page posts, seemingly as a way to learn what qualifies as...

Facebook is piecing together the business side of WhatsApp in much the same way it did with Messenger. In September, WhatsApp announced...

Three years after Facebook rolled out a version of its “Like” button for developers to feature in their mobile apps, the company is...

Facebook wants to be the mobile solution for local businesses. It also sees itself increasingly as a local commerce platform for...

This Sunday, I’m taking part in my first-ever charity ride to benefit the American Diabetes Association. Over the past week, I’ve been...

Yesterday, a court in a Düsseldorf ruled that German websites using Facebook buttons could not transfer data to the company without user...

Yeamake / Shutterstock.com According to a report from TechCrunch Wednesday, ads could start showing up in Facebook Messenger within a few...

France’s data protection authority, Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés (CNIL), has been one of the more aggressive in...

Earlier this year, Facebook launched “Page Plugin,” an embedded widget that promoted Facebook pages and content. This month, they...

Like Google, Facebook is under fire in Europe from privacy regulators. Today, the company said it would appeal a decision by a court in...

To go beyond the thumbs-up — that’s what many Facebook users have sought for years. Although one suspects that “dislike” would have done...

Just like Google, Facebook faces a wave of investigations and potential sanctions across Europe for its privacy policies. A series of...

Denys Prykhodov / Shutterstock.com Previewed at this year’s F8 Facebook developer conference, Facebook has officially rolled out the Like...

Facebook is giving the “thumbs up” to its new “Like” and “Share” buttons — the ones that dropped the actual “thumbs up” a month ago....

Facebook has given the thumbs down to its three-year-old “Like” button, introducing a new version that replaces the “thumbs up” symbol...

includes a couple new features, too. When it launched three weeks ago, embeddable posts were only available for content from a handful of...

This is similar to the way you can embed tweets, embed instagrams and/or embed vine videos, and now you can embed Facebook posts. Again,...

As Bloomberg reports, the argument is part of a case in which an employee from the Hampton, Virginia sheriff’s department says he was...

Google+ Sign-In is a way to avoid all that “social spam” that unnamed other services (cough, Facebook) “spray” into your social timeline....

Rembrandt Social Media, a patent-holding company, filed the suit last week in Virginia, saying that Facebook infringed on two of its...