It was summer 2007. Facebook was three years old and growing at a heady pace. Originally for college students, it had opened to the public the previous fall. Now it had 30 million users. What it ...

The instinct to 'like' is not at all new. You have probably not given a moment to thinking about the origin and impact of the familiar "like" button, but it's pressed more times per day than there are ...

The creator of Facebook's Like button creator doesn’t "like" it much anymore. Justin Rosenstein, an early Facebook engineer, now considers his invention as a contributor to “time poorly spent,” as he ...

SAN FRANCISCO – The internet wouldn't be the same without the Like button, the thumbs-up icon that Facebook and other online services turned into digital catnip. Like it or not, the button has served ...

'Like' button plugins can transmit people's data back to Facebook even if they don't click on those buttons, the ECJ finds. Katie is a UK-based news reporter and features writer. Officially, she is ...