Facebook CEO meets SKorean president

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has met South Korean President Park Geun-hye in Seoul to discuss ways to stimulate entrepreneurship and venture firms in Asia’s fourth-largest economy.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has met South Korean President Park Geun-hye in Seoul to discuss ways to stimulate entrepreneurship and venture firms in Asia’s fourth-largest economy.

A mysterious Facebook event set for Thursday has sparked buzz that the leading social network could be adding video to Instagram smartphone picture-sharing service.

For as long as Daisy Sande can remember, she has never spent Father’s Day with her dad. From the time her father first arrived in Saudi Arabia in 1983 to try his luck as an overseas Filipino worker (OFW), he has never left the Arab state, except to visit his family during vacations.

Facebook revealed Friday it received between 9,000 and 10,000 requests for user data from US authorities in the second half of last year, as it seeks to shield itself from a growing scandal.

Some two-thirds of American parents monitor their children’s Facebook activities, but a large percentage say they trust their youngsters to manage on their own, a study showed Thursday.

Facebook on Wednesday added Twitter-style hashtags to help the more than one billion members of the social network tune into topics of interest at the leading social network.

Facebook shareholders on Tuesday grilled leaders of the social network regarding how they planned to revive the company’s stock and protect user privacy from snoops including US spy agencies.

Internet giants from Google and Facebook to Yahoo and Zynga are scrambling to adapt to an online world where people reach for smartphones or tablets instead of traditional computers.

Google CEO Larry Page and Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg are denying reports that depict two of the Internet’s most influential companies as willing participants in a secret government program that gives the National Security Agency (NSA) unfettered access to e-mail and other personal information transmitted on various online services.

A group calling itself Canada Immigration had “friended” him on Facebook and offered him a job overseas. As it happened, the man they were enticing with job offers and inviting to “like” their page was Hans Cacdac, head of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), who immediately noticed that the recruitment agency did not have POEA accreditation.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and American counterpart Barack Obama will talk cyber-security this week in California, but experts say the state’s Silicon Valley and its signature high-tech firms should provide the front lines in the increasingly aggressive fight against overseas hackers.

Facebook has announced it is updating its policies on “harmful and hateful” content after a campaign complaining it was allowing jokes and other offensive comments about rape and domestic abuse.

Police in Pakistan’s biggest city Karachi on Monday rescued a teenage boy who was kidnapped for a half-million dollar ransom after apparently being lured through Facebook, officers and relatives said.