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Facebook has released it's latest app: Camera for iPhone. 5 reactions later, I'd say it's good news for Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), for a change. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers seem to like it, despite its suspicious similarity to Instagram.

[Updated: Facebook and its underwriter banks face the book being thrown at them by the SEC and others] The Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) stock price has fallen again, and now we hear allegations that aspects of the IPO may have violated securities laws. If true, the outrage is that insider knowledge in the run-up to the IPO wasn't shared with small investors -- allowing the big boys to make the big bucks. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers are the 99%. Not to mention: You are the product...

The NASDAQ exchange has revealed that a software SNAFU spoiled the Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) IPO. The problems caused stock price quotes to be unavailable and orders to be canceled. In the end, $FB closed only just above the offer price, but there's some dispute over whether this failure to pop was caused by the glitch. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers ponder poor system design.

While considering the Facebook IPO and that company's seeming disregard for its users/customers/business as shown by its failure to give each user a single token share, do take a look at these Strategy Analytics survey results, which claim nearly half of iPhone users would likely buy an Apple [AAPL] television soon after the product's launch. Putting the user first counts for something, it seems...

General Motors (NYSE:GM) is to stop advertising on Facebook (NASDAQ:FB). Just days before IPO, there are better times for this loss to leak, but GM's main competitor scoffs at the idea that Facebook ads don't work. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers wonder what effect this will have on the opening Facebook share price and valuation.

Facebook gets all the publicity, but when it comes down to what company people really like, Microsoft leads Facebook by a wide margin, as do Apple and Google. That's according to a just-released AP-CNBC poll.

[Update: There's been a sudden, unexpected, huge increase in available shares] The Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) IPO opening share price is likely to increase, as is the size of the offer, giving a valuation of about $100 billion. Also, the timeline has been brought forward, so that the order deadline is today, we're told. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers boggle over all of Mark Zuckerberg's paper 'money'.

Facebook wants money: Lots of money. Its latest plan for world-domination is to launch a mobile app store, called App Center. How long before all the world belongs to Facebook (NASDAQ:FB)? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers check out Zuckerberg's latest pre-IPO money-grabbing scheme.

Netflix is ready to fight the U.S. Senate on frictionless sharing. Do you want to automatically broadcast what you watch? What happens now shapes the future of what is considered a "reasonable" expectation of privacy, or what a privacy law professor calls "intellectual privacy."

[Updated with more condescending criticism of paper-billionaire Zuck and his soon-to-be-public 'anti-social' network] Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) is under fire for privacy problems yet again. This time it's the new version of Facebook Messenger, which leaks additional information about you -- some of which is compulsory. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers can't quite believe that Mark Zuckerberg didn't learn from the last 37,905 privacy flaps.

Every once in a while a tech rumor pops up that sounds so bizarre you expect it to be an April Fool's joke. Here's the latest: Microsoft will swap Bing to Facebook for shares when Facebook goes public. The rumor is wrong in every way.

Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) tries shutting down Facebook. It's suing over alleged infringement of ten patents. Yahoo claims it invented many of the techniques that Facebook uses to run its eponymous, ubiquitous, cloud-computing social network. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers weigh up the merits of the case. Not to mention: How homeopathy works...

Some of those users checking in each day may not even know it.

Apple, Google, Microsoft and three other major tech firms have agreed to a deal which means in future apps on their platforms must "provide greater privacy disclosures". The deal's a move in the right direction, but is it enough?

Apple has said it will stop apps sharing your personal contact data without your permission, saying this shouldn't have been happening in the first place. But is the company truly prepared to respect user privacy in the Post PC age?