Facebook users in New Zealand are being given the option of paying to highlight particular wall posts and updates.

Payments of 25p, 50p and even £1.25 have already been paid to the social network via credit card and PayPal. In return Facebook...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced the arrival of video chat, powered by Skype, into the social network.

Speaking via a stream that was broadcast on the Facebook Live channel, Zuckerberg's announcement was actually later than Facebook...

Just over a month ago, New Yorker and convicted felon Paul Ceglia represented his lawsuit against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, claiming that he has documentation to prove that he owns 50 per cent of the social networking site.

He had already...

Contrary to media reports, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has said he plans to keep the social media site's gates closed to the under thirteens, at least for the time being.

Currently, Facebook operates a global minimum age...

The case made famous by David Fincher's Oscar-winning movie The Social Network has come to a close... again.

A court has ruled that Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss must accept a cash and stock settlement with Facebook valued $65 million, as previously...

Bill Gates has topped a top ten list of "world changers", according to Dragon Age 2 publisher Electronic Arts (no, really). A survey of Brits under the age of 25 puts Microsoft founder and chairman Gates at the summit, with Facebook-supremo Mark Zuckerberg...

Just because you’re on medical leave doesn’t mean you can’t have dinner with the President of the United States.

That’s exactly what Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, has been doing this week, after Barack Obama invited a number...

What happens when the three most famous Mark Zuckerbergs come together?

Well, to find out., take a look at this sketch from Saturday Night Live, which aired in the States this weekend.

The video features the man nominated for an Oscar...

The Social Network is in line to scoop a number of Academy Awards after being nominated for a total of eight Oscars.

David Fincher's adaptation of Ben Mezrich's 2009 book - The Accidental Billionaires (with the screenplay by Aaron Sorkin) -...

The trouble with Facebook (and the internet as a whole) is that it gives an almighty engine for a rumour to spread.

Even if that rumour is based on a story from a parody-based website whose previous stories include the tale of Bigfoot stealing...

A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? 56 billion dollars.

Yep, that's right people - Facebook is said to be worth a cool $56 billion - that's 36 billion of the Queen's finest British pound sterling.

Just imagine the amount...

Facebook has rolled out a revamped profile page on the social network, with the big man himself going on US national TV to talk about the changes as well.

Well, we say big man, but Mark Zuckerberg is only about 5.5ft tall, but he is the CEO,...

Mark Zuckerberg has taken to the stage (well, we say stage - the venue is basically a glorified canteen) to announce Facebook's new messaging service, previously called Project Titan.

And, despite the rumours, Zuckerberg was keen to point out...

Facebook has sent out an email to US journalists inviting them to an exclusive event to be held on Monday 15 November in San Francisco, as part of the Web 2.0 Summit.

It pre-empts Mark Zuckerberg's conversation at the Summit the next day.

However,...

In David Fincher's smash hit movie Justin Timberlake, playing the part of Sean Parker, says: "A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars".

We at Pocket-lint say, "A billion dollars isn’t cool. You...