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The possibility of more members leaving the world's most popular social networking site looms amid reports that Facebook plans to place pop-up ads when members open their account to read News Feeds from their friends.

The Google-owned video sharing site may soon charge users for access to certain specialty video channels. The paid-for subscription will reportedly be applied to as much as 50 Youtube specialty channels.

Out of the blue, Facebook Inc. surprised with a significant increase in mobile advertising revenue. The social media giant has started bearing fruits from mobile advertising, making its investors less worried about the future of the company. Indeed, the latest figured showed that Facebook Inc. learned how to make money out of mobile ads.

Internet gambling is becoming a tidbit for many companies, including casinos, as it has been legalized in three states, and other state authorities are seriously considering the legalization of it on their soil. The interest is even bigger as the first legal pay-to-play poker website has been launched. Casinos are observing the new scene with interest as they are eyeing online gambling which might become their next gold goose.

Female drivers had long been the butt of jokes of motorists, but a woman driver in Ireland unwittingly became a YouTube sensation for her very poor parking skills.

nvestment guru Warren Buffet just opened an account with Twitter with the handle @WarrenBuffet, and he already has more than 188,000 followers in a matter of hours.

The world's most patronized social networking site, Facebook, reported an amount of $1.5 billion in revenue for the first quarter of 2013, higher than the $1.1 billion posted in the same quarter last year.

Who says that Facebook is losing its popularity? While some young people may have stayed away from the world's most popular social media site, Facebook continues to dominate with monthly active users now reaching 1.11 billion.

Pope Francis continues to enjoy immense popularity in the Catholic world two months after his election as head of the 1.2-billion member church. Latest report said that he doubled his Twitter followers to more than 6 million.

Omar Borkan Al Gala, the United Arab Emirates citizen who was allegedly deported from Saudi Arabia along with two other males for being too handsome is obviously enjoying his newfound fame.

While Facebook, the world's most popular social media site, continues to pervade the lives of its 1 billion members through the newly released Facebook Home, in Australia, the site is becoming less popular as almost 400,000 Aussies unfriended Facebook since December 2012.

The month is almost over, but some people are still going back to the first day of April by creating April Fools' Day pranks. A recent joke, similar to YouTube's announcement on March 31 that it will close the popular video sharing site, is a post in Facebook that founder Mark Zuckerberg decided to shutter the most popular social networking site with 1 billion members.

Presidential sister Kris Aquino directly blamed on Tuesday The Script lead singer Danny O'Donoghue for causing the break-up between Miss Universe 2012 1st runner-up Janine Tugonon and her ordinary looking boyfriend Jaypee Santos.

This is the advertising campaign of a beauty soap that has been behind a move to change women's image of what is beautiful from standard media images to more realistic ones of faces that millions of ordinary females have.The 3-minute commercial, made by Ogilvy and released last week, has more than 15 million hits on YouTube so far. Just days after the roll-out of the ad, a parody produced by newfeelingstime.com, featuring men was released on YouTube, and it has also gone viral with so far mor...

In what appears to be a tragic-comedy, a new Philippine figure of speech is being applied on the country's bachelor president, 53-year-old Benigno Aquino, who is reportedly dating a beauty queen.

The Twitter flirting of Miss Universe 1st runner-up Janine Tugonon, which led to her break up with her ordinary looking Filipino boyfriend Jaypee Santos, has led creative minds to use her name as a figure of speech or buzz word to mean dumping a boyfriend.

Following her admission on national television that she broke up with her ordinary looking boyfriend because of her infatuation for a singer, Miss Universe 2012 1st runner-up Janine Tugonon is attracting bashers on Facebook.

One in five scams in Facebook involves the offer to view an alleged sex tape involving sultry singer Rihanna, but in reality it is an online scam with the aim to steal private data and install malware.

An interesting job vacancy ad was posted in Weibo, China's counterpart of Twitter. The ad announced that a third-party security company in Beijing called Anquan is looking for a Chief Pornography Identification Officer.

With all indications of breaking another YouTube record, Psy's newest single, Gentleman, would likely spawn many parodies and a number of celebrities would likely dance the horse trot, similar to what happened to the South Korean K-pop artist's first megahit, Gangnam Style.

The verdict is out. Psy's new single, Gentleman, appears to be headed for another YouTube record as the official music video of his new song logged more than 10.7 million hits on Sunday.

A new video game titled Vatican Quest with a character who looks like Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is causing furor in Spain. The reason behind the ruckus is that the papal look-a-like acts as a pimp for Catholic cardinals.

South Korean YouTube sensation Psy is releasing his new single titled Gentleman on Friday, April 12. Ahead of the official release, which is a follow-up to his mega monster hit, Gangnam Style, samples of the song came out online, but only the audio is available.

Trending Thursday on Twitter is a hashtag with perhaps the most popular mobile photo sharing app on Android and iOS devices, Instagram. The Twitterverse is flooded with #WhyIHateInstagram shout-outs, with several users saying hashtag junkies are acting as a main turn-off.

"Confession Bear" funny memes are typically self-deprecating if not self-indulgent declarations by active social media users. Reddit is one of the best go-to places for such memes, with Tumblr, Facebook, and Twitter following close behind. Over the weekend, a controversial "murder confession" got the Redditors' attention, and the FBI reportedly received a report on the matter.

If Torrent Freak's discovery is a basis, it would not be surprising that reports of a gay sex ring in the Vatican circulated during the time that Pope Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI quit the papacy in February 2013.

The Coalition in Australia released on Tuesday its broadband policy which would cost Aussie taxpayers less at A$29 billion. It would replace the fiber-to-the-premises (Fttp) deployment used by the current National Broadband Network (NBN) to a fibre-to-the-node (FttN) network.

In another display of how social media could turn a cute kiddy prank into something viral, an apology letter written by a nine-year-old boy named Zac from Adelaide, Australia is being read by thousands of amused Facebook members.

Australian subscribers of Vodafone will enjoy 4G long-term evolution (LTE) services by June 2013, Vodafone Chief Executive Officer Bill Morrow said on Monday.