The search giant Google is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, the city’s subway transit system. The London Underground Google Doodle features the Google logo rendered in colourful Tube lines.

Facebook has sent out invitations to an event that is to be held on January 15, scheduled to start at 10pm Pacific Time. There are no specific details about why the press event is going to take place, but all we know for now is the tagline that says — Come and see what we’re building.

In a blog post, LinkedIn announced that it had passed a new milestone of 200 million members on its site. The popular business-oriented social networking site was launched in 2003, and had reportedly passed the 100 million marks in 2011. LinkedIn has added more than 13 million members since its last announcement on November 1, 2012.

Facebook seems to be testing a new single-column design for its Facebook Timelines, which makes users to easily navigate through their profile page and also enable them to organize personal messages The new Timeline has only a single column for posts and status updates.

One of the popular domain name registrars Name.com has been acquired by Demand Media, a public digital media company that owns the domain name and hosting giant eNom, which currently has over 13.5 million domain names registered.

A new phishing attack has been discovered on Facebook that targets and tricks Facebook Page owners into entering their Facebook password and email address. This is perhaps one the trickiest phishing attack I’ve come across in the last few months.

Facebook is slowly rolling out the Facebook Page Manager for Android. With the new Facebook Page Manager for Android you can create new posts, reply to comments, view page insights, and reply to private messages.

Today I spotted a new hoax message on my Facebook news feed, which tells a story of a young kid who is in need of money for his life saving surgery. No, Facebook will not donate any money if you share or “like” a post. End of story.

Facebook today pushed an update for its Facebook Messenger app, which now enables users to send voice messages, and are also testing VoIP calling in Canada. The new updated version for Android and iOS devices is now available for download on Google Play Store and Apple App Store respectively.

Back in October 2012, Facebook reported a new milestone of one billion users, out of which more than 600 million where mobile users. Wondering from where these one billion users came from? Here’s an infographic that will give you an idea about Facebook’s expansion.

WhatsApp claims to have a new record, with managing to process 18 Billion Messages on New Year’s even — 7 billion inbound and 11 billion outbound messages on a single day.

Recently Facebook enabled a new feature on its site called as the “Privacy Shortcuts” that provides users the ability to easily and quickly make changes to your profile’s privacy settings. However, users on Facebook are spreading a false message, which indicates that hackers can gain access Facebook accounts if users answer the low security message.

Marissa Mayer has just made Flickr “awesome” again! Yahoo is giving away three months of pro services to all its current users for free. With just a few clicks, you get all the benefits of a Flickr Pro account! This is good news to all those Flickr users who have always imagined of having a pro account.

Facebook is testing a new service that will enable advertisers (or anyone) to send messages to Facebook users with whom they are not connect with, and guarantees that this message will be delivered right into the users’ inbox, rather than the rarely-visited folder “other.”

The news about Instagram’s change in privacy policy and terms of service that broke out earlier this week caused an outcry by users, thinking that the new policy would allow the photo-sharing giant to sell images without the individual permission of users. However, the update won’t be effective anymore as Instagram reverts to old advertising terms.