Not enough Facebook friends? Buy them

by REUTERS,

Who says you can't buy friends? An Australian online marketing company is selling friends and fans to Facebook members after offering a similar service to Twitter users.

Advertising, marketing and promoting company uSocial said it was targeting social networking sites because of their huge advertising potential.
"Facebook is an extremely effective marketing tool," Leon Hill, uSocial CEO, said in a statement.
"The simple fact is that with a large following on Facebook, you have an instant and targeted group of people you can contact and promote whatever it is you want to promote," he added.
"The only problem is that it can be extremely difficult to achieve such a following, which is where we come in.
The company offers packages for Facebook, the world's number one social networking site, that start at 1,000 friends up to 10,000 friends at costs ranging from $177 to $1,167.

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Nokia launches phones, announces Facebook deal

by REUTERS,
The world's largest mobile phone maker Nokia launched new phones on Wednesday and announced a location-based service deal with social networking site Facebook.

Nokia said its X6 and X3 models would ship in the fourth quarter, priced at 450 euros ($641) and 115 euros respectively.
It also unveiled a smaller version of its N97 smartphone, to be priced at 450 euros, and said it was on the verge of selling 2 million units of the original N97. Nokia said N97 sales were outpacing sales of its previous flagship model, the N95.
Nokia also said it had agreed on a deal with Facebook where people could update their location and status directly to the social networking site via a Nokia Ovi account.
The first phone to support the service will be the N97 mini, which will start shipping in October.
Nokia shares were flat at 9.41 euros at 0802 GMT.
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