Facebook launches Olympics page; cannot advertise on it

Another web service to get on the Olympics squad is Facebook. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) launched an Olympics page on the social network at an event in London today, which was attended by 1992 gold medalist, Boris Becker. However, representatives from the International Olympic Committee have made it certain that Facebook is not to cash in on the Olympics page and cannot carry advertisements on any game-themed pages. Head of International Business Development at Facebook, Christian Hernandez was quoted saying that Facebook will not be running adverts against the Olympic pages. He went on to compare the Facebook pages to a stadium, a clean venue with no advertising visible inside the stadium. The Facebook pages will only carry the Olympic Games logo and the London 2012 logo. While many other companies have paid a lot of money to carry the Olympics logo in any capacity, Hernandez stresses that the relationship with Facebook is a non-commercial one.Click here for full story