In 2008, the website went social by joining forces with social networking giant, Orkut.

Facebook is reportedly preparing to make its stockmarket debut in May, during which the social networking giant could raise $10bn in the world's biggest technology company float.

Davy Private Clients were part of those who secured shares in the social networking giant Facebook through their investment in Tiger Global Management's funds.

The Guardian has launched a new Facebook app, becoming one of the first newspapers to launch a product alongside the social networking giant.

In 2006, a trailer Riddlehoover posted for his first film, To a Tee, caught the eye of a social networking giant.

The deal will create a networking giant whose technologies and customer base will spread across many diverse market segments.

Myspace has proven to be a windfall for many smaller companies that provide widgets or accessories to the social networking giant.

"There's going to be an explosion," said Eric Schmidt, the chief executive officer of Novell, a networking giant.

Last year, his biggest holding was Cisco Systems, the networking giant.

Bertelsmann's support of qeep is an example of their efforts to compete with social networking giants, such as News Corp's MySpace.