Facebook was given 48 hours to stop tracking internet users or risk having to pay fines of up to €250,000 a day.

Local Awareness Ads from Facebook were launched more than a year ago, but now the company is updating the hyper-local service.

The third quarter profits for Facebook have seen a jump that is mainly due to increased advertising sales.

The rivalry between Twitter, Google and Facebook could be set to intensify as the latter launches Search FYI, a function that will allow users to search the two trillion posts that appear on the social network each month.

Facebook's Preferred Marketing Developer Program was replaced earlier this year with its Marketing Partners Program, which was restructured to allow easier B2B partnership link-ups.

A new notification system launched by Facebook is aimed at protecting user accounts, says Alex Stamos, the company's chief security officer.

As social networks continue to work out how they can monetise, Facebook is following up on new ad and Page features introduced over the past year with a brand new shopping feature.

As News Feeds on Facebook become even more feature-heavy, with recent additions such as 360 video and live streaming being perfect examples, some users with slower connections could start to experience difficulties.

Facebook news feeds are continually changing, and the latest upgrade sees 360-degree videos become the new talking point.

Although there have been recent indications that rich snippets, structured data, and structured markup would play an increasing role in the way Google organised its search results, Facebook rich snippets and review stars seem to have lost their own influence on rankings.