It has been revealed that Facebook will get a refund of $500 million on tax payments, despite making $1.1 billion profit in 2012, according to a report by the Citizens for Tax Justice. More...

There's a bunch of popular apps made for other operating systems that are not available for Windows 8 users. I list the ones I think Microsoft's OS needs right now and the chances they will appear. More...

Facebook has admitted today that a number of its employees had their laptops infected with malware due to a "zero day" Java exploit. Facebook says the company's user data was not affected. More...

Facebook has been sued over its famous "like" button by a patent-holding company that claims it hold two patents that were first created by a a now dead Dutch programmer. More...

Facebook has added new tagging features to its status updates. Users can now tag what they're doing - such as watching a particular television show - or add their mood to a status update. More...

Twitter has introduced a beta version of the Lolcat language to the site, inviting users to contribute translations and alterations as needed. Now you can finally talk the talk of an early meme. More...

A new report from the NPD Group claims that 37 percent of PC users are now doing some former PC activities such as web browsing and Facebook access on their tablet or smartphone. More...

According to a new report Facebook is working on an app that would track users all the time to alert them to nearby friends. The app would definitely also be used to serve localized ads to its users. More...

In a new interview, Microsoft vice president Frank Shaw took some time to poke some fun at Google+, saying, "... a party with my Google+ friends, I could probably have in a rowboat." More...

A rumour that seems destined to never EVER die is that Facebook is developing its own smartphone. CEO Mark Zuckerberg again explicitly denied this, saying it would make little sense for the company. More...

Facebook has just announced its own programming language called Feature eXtraction Language (FXL) which the company has created in part to go after users who generate spam on the service. More...

Microsoft has announced an expansion of its Bing Tag support, allowing users to tag specific websites in Bing so that more people can see which sites are associated with a specific user. More...

Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page has made a bold statement against Facebook in an interview, saying they do a "really bad job on their products" without elaborating much further More...

Fortune has come out with their annual Top 100 Best Companies to Work for, placing Google in the number one spot, while Microsoft makes it at #75 and Apple misses out entirely More...

Microsoft has announced that its Bing search service has added more Facebook features to its search results sidebar, including status updates, comments, photos and more. More...

After testing this feature in Canada, Facebook has now decided to expand its Free Wi-fi calling feature to iOS users in the US. All you need is an iOS device and the Facebook Messenger app. More...

Though Facebook currently has a partnership with Microsoft's Bing, it once considered a business alliance with Google, although it eventually abandoned those plans because of privacy concerns. More...

Microsoft has revealed more about its newest partnership with Facebook which will have its Bing web search results incorporated with Facebook's internal Graph Search engine. More...

Facebook has just announced that its upcoming internal search engine, Graph Search, will also contain web search results powered by Microsoft's Bing search service. More...

Facebook has announced a new internal search engine, Graph Search, as part of its press event today, which company CEO Mark Zuckerberg says its one of three "pillars" that support Facebook. More...

Microsoft is apparently testing a new feature for its Bing.com main page that adds an info button that expands to show more information about the daily background image. More...

Facebook has invited members of the press to a mysterious press event on Tuesday, January 15th at its headquarters. The company claims it will show the invited media "what we're building". More...

Google+, the often-mocked social media platform, may by "crazy like a fox" as features from the tool merge into other Google offerings. Do you find yourself using Google+ more as time goes on? More...

Facebook released an update for its Messenger app for iOS and Android, which allows users to send voice chats. However within the next few weeks users can also test VoIP calling, for free More...

California and Illinois now have new laws that go into effect today that are designed to keep employers from asking their employees to give up their password protected Facebook accounts. More...

Talent agent Micah Johnson was able to screencap some very unusual activity from Facebook. The social network wanted to charge $100 to deliver a message as part of a new counter-spam initiative. More...

As 2012 comes to an end, we give our picks for the top 10 biggest stories in the tech industry in the past 12 months, featuring the launch of Windows 8, the reveal of Microsoft's Surface and more. More...

Chinese laws forcing real-name registration to use the internet have been passed, with further revisions likely to come. The legislation could allow removal of "illegal" posts within the country. More...

The list of the top 100 most viewed English articles on Wikipedia is in, and the #1 spot is claimed by the Facebook article with over 32 million views. Others in the list are somewhat surprising More...

A class-action lawsuit against Instagram's new terms of service was filed in California on Friday, alleging the Facebook subsidiary breached its contract with users, among other claims. More...

Theories have appeared, with one being that Facebook's Poke app is a direct result of a failed buyout. Potentially supporting a bruised ego, Poke might just be a challenge to Snapchat's niche. More...

Facebook has launched a new standalone iOS app called Poke that lets users send texts, photos and video to one or more Facebook friends that later expire after just a few seconds. More...

In a news post about updates to Messaging, Facebook is launching what it calls an experiment where some users will pay $1 to send a message to the Inbox of a Facebook user that is not a friend. More...

Facebook is planning to enter the video advertising game, offering video advertising space to ad agencies, with those adverts being played dynamically on users news feeds. More...

Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom has now denied it plans to sell photos uploaded on the service, despite the language in an upcoming update to its Terms of Service. More...

Imagine walking down the street and seeing your face on an advert for an embarrassing ailment. Well, you might not have to imagine, if changes to Instagram's privacy policies come into effect. More...

All AOL employees will be getting a nice $1,056 year end bonus, thanks in part due to the recent sale of a number of patents it owned to Microsoft, which in turn sold some of those patents to Facebook More...

Facebook has announced that it will release a major upgrade for its Android client today, ditching the HTML5 code in favor of native code that will increase the app's speed. More...

A newly released third party Facebook app for Windows 8 app may get into trouble as the app itself is called just "Facebook", even though the developer says they have no official link with Facebook. More...

Facebook is giving its users a nice way to see what its biggest trends, stories and music were in 2012, as well as offering the same functionality to your individual user profile. More...

A new report claims that the number of Windows Phone users that are using Facebook has increased four times the amount seen a year ago, which may show an overall increase in Windows Phone 8 sales. More...

A new report claims Microsoft and Facebook are in talks that could result in Microsoft selling off its Atlas Solutions online ad platform to Facebook, who could turn it into a rival for Google's ads. More...

Ads for Microsoft's Surface tablet posted on websites seems to show a Facebook app on the tablet's Start screen, which may show that an official Facebook app for Windows 8 and Windows RT is coming? More...

Facebook has announced that its Messenger application for Android will soon no longer require a Facebook account, allowing signups via just a name and phone number. More...

Mozilla has announced the launch of Facebook Messenger for Firefox, allowing users of the web browser to chat with their Facebook friends while surfing any website. More...

Facebook has removed an image seemingly showing a woman in rather, ahem, 'risque' positioning while proving someone's theory that the Terms of Service are somewhat flawed in their usage. More...

Facebook will be hosting a Windows 8 hackathon at its HQ, Friday to Saturday, to give developers the chance to build social applications on Windows 8 and win prizes for the best hack. More...

Bradley Horowitz has openly stated that he feels Facebook is "pissing off users" by spamming advertizements on people's personal feeds. He insists that Google is handling advertizements a lot better. More...

Historically, Facebook has given its employees iPhones. But with the explosion of Android devices, they are now looking for employees to switch to Android to better test their Android Facebook apps. More...