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Social networking leader Facebook is adding Skype video chat to its pages in a move to boost up its appeal while at the same time preparing to diminish competition from Google.

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced the agreement which strengthens the relationship between Facebook and Microsoft Corp who is in the process of acquiring Skype.

Zuckerberg said Facebook has hit a record 750 million users. The new service, rolling out from Wednesday, could be a huge boost for Skype, which currently has about 145 million regular users.

Facebook is about to unveil a new feature next week, most likely in the mobile or tablet sector, said Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the social networking giant.

In a visit to Facebook's Seattle office on Wednesday, Zuckerberg told reporters that the company plans to "launch something awesome" next week.

The project has been designed at the 40-person Seattle office, Facebook's only major engineering center outside of its Palo Alto, California, said Zuckerberg.

The meeting of tech industry players ended up in selecting Eric Schmidt of Google Inc and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and others as delegates to talk at the Group of Eight meeting Thursday in Deauville, France. Schmidt and Zuckerberg uttered their warning to governments to tread lightly on Internet regulation because moves to tame its rough edges risked hurting its virtues.

In a move to recollect young forces for its reelection Barack Obama made a campaign-style visit to the social networking company Facebook. Democrats believe that the US President will need again the same forces who supported him in his elections.

With his visit to Facebook headquarters Obama sought to connect to tens of millions of people who have adopted social media as a prime method of communications.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was granted a favorable decision by a US appeals court in a legal battle against his former Harvard classmates who accuse him of stealing their idea for Facebook.

On Monday a US appeals court ruled that Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss must accept a cash and stock settlement with Facebook that had been valued at $65 million.

Facebook creator, Mark Zuckerberg, the 35th richest person in the US according to Forbes ranking, will be the subject of a comic, one more distinctive mark of celebrity in today's pop culture.

As publisher Bluewater Productions announced yesterday, said it will issue the biographical comic "Mark Zuckerberg; the Creator of Facebook" in December.

A TechCrunch blog reported about a new webpage blockzuck.com which shows that a Facebook member can block anyone on the social network except the CEO of the company Mark Zuckerberg. If anyone tries to do it he/she will get a message saying “General Block failed error: Block failed.”