Nearly half of Americans believe that popular social-networking site Facebook is merely a passing fad, a new study suggests. A poll conducted by the Associated Press and CNBC found that 46% of respondents think Facebook will fade away as new platforms come along in the future. However, about 43% believe the site will likely be successful for the long haul. Read More...

A UK woman is taking Facebook to court in an attempt to uncover the identities of anonymous users who attacked her on the social network, the Telegraph reports.

The real case for Nicola Brookes, a 45-year-old Brighton resident is not against Facebook itself. If Facebook is made to comply, in what could be a first case of its kind in the UK, she intends to use that information to prosecute users who created a fake profile in her name.

Brookes found herself the subject of abuse, was accused of being a pedophile, and even had death threats directed at her on Facebook after leaving a supportive comment on an X Factor singer’s page. Read More...

Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin renounced his U.S. citizenship ahead of the company's highly anticipated initial public offering, which could enrich him by several billion dollars. He currently lives in Singapore, a country that doesn't tax capital gains.

Saverin might not be allowed to physically reenter the United States. Talking Points Memo (TPM) posted earlier today, citing Sec. 212. [8 U.S.C. 1182], which contains the following text, explaining what sort of non-citizens might not be eligible to enter the country:

Former citizens who renounced citizenship to avoid taxation. -Any alien who is a former citizen of the United States who officially renounces United States citizenship and who is determined by the Attorney General to have renounced United States citizenship for the purpose of avoiding taxation by the United States is excludable. Read More...

Many people think their LinkedIn profiles and their resumes are interchangeable, but you should not send your entire LinkedIn profile into a potential employer and expect to land an interview. While there is the LinkedIn Resume Builder, all that does is reformat your existing profile into a resume — it’s not tailored enough to show the value you could bring to the specific job you’re applying for. Read More...

One of the most immediate effects of Steve Jobs’ legacy on Apple is an animosity towards Google fueled by what Jobs saw as the outright copying of iOS by Android. Big tech companies will always be battling titans, but this is more. This is personal.

Still, the two companies have been bound by the mutual dependence since Google’s services are bundled into iOS. And iMore reports that Google may make four times the ad revenue off of their use in iOS than they do from their own Android platform. Read More...

Facebook is testing a new pay-to-promote system for status updates: the idea is that users can pay a small fee to Facebook to have a particular status update appear on their social networks in a more-visible manner. Right now, the test service appears to be only running in New Zealand (although a few others claim to have seen it), and the company has not announced any plans to take the feature to other markets, or even if it’s going to stick with the idea. Read More...

Facebook has raked in billions and will make a splash when its stock hits the open market next week. So, what are folks on Wall Street concerned about? Mark Zuckerberg's hoodie, apparently. Michael Pachter, an analyst for Wedbush Securities, told Bloomberg that the Facebook CEO's decision to show up for a meeting with potential investors dressed down in his trademark casual outerwear suggests that he's too immature to run a massive corporation.

"He's actually showing investors he doesn't care that much; he's going to be him," Pachter said in an interview on Bloomberg TV. "I think that's a mark of immaturity. Read More...

The big guns on Instagram have seen their number of followers spike tremendously since the startup exited its iPhone-only stage and released its much-anticipated Android app on April 3. Up until that point, Instagram had been downloaded 27 million times and only two users had more than 1 million followers — pop stars Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez. Days later, Facebook bought the photo-sharing app for $1 billion, attracting massive attention to Instagram. Instagram now approaches 50 million downloads, and three more users are in the 1-million-followers club. Read More...