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Facebook said it would open three 'community skills hubs' in Spain, Poland and Italy

Facebook to open three digital training hubs in Europe

Business / 22 Jan

Facebook said security experts would begin their investigation 'promptly'

Facebook to investigate Russian influence on Brexit

Brexit / 17 Jan

Charges follow a tip-off from Facebook

1,000 people charged in Denmark for sharing sex film

Europe / 15 Jan

Mark Zuckerberg has announced the first in a series of changes in the design of the world's largest social network

Planned changes to Facebook timeline push shares lower

Business / 12 Jan

Facebook is to pay the teenager's legal costs under the terms of the resolution

Girl settles Facebook action over naked photo

Facebook / 09 Jan

Among the illicit sites monitored by police was one offering a "Thanksgiving special" on cocaine discounted to $40 from normal street price of $60

US police say Facebook 'secret groups' traffic in guns

News / 22 Dec 17

The multi-year agreement will be expanded later to include Facebook Messenger

Facebook, Universal Music strike licensing deal

Business / 21 Dec 17

Germany's cartel office took issue with the way Facebook tracked users as well as the access it gets to third party data

Facebook 'abused dominant position' - German officials

Business / 19 Dec 17

Ad revenue supported by Facebook's 'local teams' will no longer be recorded by its international HQ in Dublin

Facebook to stop re-routing ad revenue through Dublin

Business / 12 Dec 17

The social network said more than half of the people working at the site in central London will focus on engineering, making it Facebook's biggest engineering hub outside the United States

Facebook opens new London HQ, to create 800 UK jobs

Business / 04 Dec 17

Like their rivals globally, Australia's traditional media companies have been squeezed by online rivals, as advertising dollars have followed eyeballs to digital distributors such as Google, Facebook and Netflix

Australia to probe Facebook/Google for media disruption

Business / 04 Dec 17

Apple chief executive Tim Cook at the launch of the iPhone X

Apple pulls Skype app from Chinese app store

Business / 21 Nov 17

The company's share price, which hit a record $182.90 yesterday, initially rose in after-hours trading, but later fell into negative territory on discussion of higher spending

Facebook profit soars, no sign of Russia scandal impact

Business / 02 Nov 17

US senators question Facebook over 2016 election ads

News / 01 Nov 17

Under the plan, people will be able to click 'view ads' on a page to determine the source

Facebook to begin testing political ad transparency

News / 28 Oct 17

Facebook currently sends all user data to parent company Facebook Inc in the US for processing

EU Court of Justice must decide on EU-US data rules

Ireland / 03 Oct 17

Facebook said it would add over 1,000 people over the next year and invest more in software to flag and take down ads

Facebook to hire 1,000 people to review ads

Business / 03 Oct 17

The spread of illegal content on the web has sparked a heated debate in Europe

EU pressures web firms to remove illegal content sooner

Business / 28 Sep 17

Mr Zuckerberg's post at Facebook came after Mr Trump accused the social network of bias in a tweet

Facebook's Zuckerberg rejects Trump's bias allegation

News / 28 Sep 17

Mark Zuckerberg pledged to make political advertising more transparent on his network in future

Facebook to share Russia-linked ads with US authorities

Ipsos MRBI Omnipoll Social Media Quarterly published today

Social messaging levels continue to rise in Q2 - survey

Business / 15 Sep 17

Facebook failed to prevent its users' data being accessed by advertisers in Spain, the country's watchdog has said

Facebook fined €1.2m by Spanish data watchdog

Business / 11 Sep 17

Facebook said many of the ads promoted 470 'inauthentic' accounts and pages that it has now suspended

Facebook: Russian funds used on political messages

Politics / 06 Sep 17

Facebook is initially paying content creators for shows to drive interest on its Watch service

Facebook Watch steps up competition with YouTube

Business / 31 Aug 17

The issue began this morning and continued until the middle of the day

Facebook outage leaves users frustrated

Technology / 23 Aug 17

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