Mark Zuckerberg

With the a rumoured deal with Skype and an unofficial plug-in designed to replicate Google+'s circles feature both being revealed in the same day, many analysts have speculated that Facebook is playing catch up with Google's new half-launched social networking service.

In response to the overwhelming hoards of internet users clamoring to try out Google's new Google+ social networking service, Facebook has been in talks with Microsoft owned Skype about a rumoured new video chat service.

Facebook yesterday shot back at reports that it had lost as many as 6 million users during the month of May in the United States, which could prove to be a potentially damaging finding as the company seeks to go public sometime in early 2012.

The French government has upped its quest to recover France and French integrity by allowing for a its broadcasting authority to ban any mention of the words Facebook and Twitter on the radios or televisions unless they are specifically part of the story.

Microsoft yesterday signaled a change in its momentum as big as when it bought a stake in facebook three years ago.