By 2007, Facebook engineers had been tinkering with a Like button, but Zuckerberg opposed it because he feared the social network was already getting too cluttered and, Reeves said, “he didn’t ...

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. Skip to content. ABC27.

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 ...

A 2005 sketch by Bob Goodson of a like button for Yelp. Photo: BCG/Associated Press Few recent innovations have been as simultaneously celebrated and maligned as the like button.

The social media company denied any wrongdoing, but agreed to a $90 million settlement in the case. Any Facebook users who visited a website that displayed the “Like button” between April 2010 ...

Teams users will be able to post to the feed, known as a Storyline, or reply to colleagues’ posts much like you would on Facebook. Microsoft is pitching this as a way for colleagues to share ...

Once Zuckerberg relented, Facebook quickly saw that the Like button not only helped keep its audience engaged on its social network but also made it easier to divine people’s individual ...

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 as a ...