- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg discusses philanthropy on Oprah [VIDEO] Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, appears on the Oprah Show to discuss his new Startup: Eduction foundation, which the billionaire officially announced on a blog post yesterday.
- Ulster Bank releases iPhone app Ulster Bank have launched a free mobile banking app in Ireland for the iPhone.
- News of the World to go behind a paywall next month News International, a British newspaper publisher owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, is to place a third title, The News of the World, behind an online paywall next month.
- Facebook improves user experience around social gaming Today Facebook announced a number of new features that give its users more control over the updates they see in their News Feed.
- Gmail app in Android Market gets Froyo only update A new version of the Gmail app in Android Market has been released with some welcome usability updates.
- Foursquare 2.0 now available on the Apple App Store Foursquare have released version 2.0 of their popular location-based app on the Apple App Store, with Android and Blackberry updates “coming soon”.
- Alternative search engine Cuil shuts down after two years Alternative search engine Cuil has shut down permanently after a little over two years in operation.
- Social photo sharing site Flickr reaches five billion uploads Flickr’s popularity continues to grow with the service quietly celebrating its five billionth photo upload.
- Is Facebook building a phone? [UPDATED] Rumours have started to surface that Facebook is secretly building a phone. Similar to the iPhone and Google’s Nexus One, it is understood that Facebook may be planning to develop the OS and employ a third party to manufacture its hardware.