Facebook, the world's most popular social-networking platform, is reportedly preparing to jump into the videogame-development arena.

A recently revealed regulatory filing made by the social-networking giant stated that Facebook would not be prohibited from creating its own games, with effect from March 31 next year.

In what apparently is the latest of Facebook scams, a fake $1 million lottery ticket picture was uploaded by Nolan Daniels on Thursday night; within a day of a $550 million Powerball lottery drawing going to two winning tickets.

In the midst of increasing business strains on their association, and with the recent divergence of their business interests, the two social partners - social network Facebook and game developer Zynga - have loosened their ties and signed a new agreement.

According to the information shared by the German lawmakers on Friday, the so-called `Google Tax' - a proposed legislation which will potentially impose copyright restrictions on Internet search engines - has been debated on, and has been sent for further review to an expert committee.

Google's Tuesday-launched campaign against a proposed German copyright law - the Leistungsschutzrecht für Presseverleger, or 'ancillary copyright for press publishers' - has been condemned by the senior politicians in the country.

In a move which is evidently an upshot of the supposedly derogatory comments made on Facebook, against the Tajikistan officials and President Imomali Rakhmon, the authorities in the Central Asian country have blocked users' access to the popular social network.

In a move which marks the delivery of one of the main commitments under the Action Plan for Jobs 2012, a new government-funded industry-led technology centre - the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4) - has recently been opened in Dublin City University (DCU).

In an evident move to promote the new Facebook Gifts digital offering among the Cyber Monday shoppers, Facebook said in a Monday announcement that it was adding iTunes gift cards to its Gifts catalogue.