Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Google Alert - Facebook

News29 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook Jobs Could Kill LinkedIn's Momentum
Forbes
Facebook could also use the tons of social data it has on each user to target relevant jobs across its vast network of users.
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Facebook launches App Center in India
The Hindu
Facebook has launched its application centre — App Center in India and six other countries, a move that will help users to find games, music services and media content easily. The social networking giant had launched the App Center in the U.S. last month.
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The Hindu
Bleapp.com Launches Facebook Apps Suite for Agencies & Brands including ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The scratch off app is a unique and engaging Facebook app that can be used for promotions and building the followers for a Facebook page. The scratch off app can easily be setup by an agency on their clients' Facebook pages. Agencies can control how ...
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Decoding the Facebook-Yahoo Deal
Minyanville.com
Behind the usual public relations waffle, real benefits for both partners.
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Facebook Advertising: Stellar or Stalking?
Triple Pundit
Facebook and its advertising have been loved about as much as Monsanto and ExxonMobil, but FB advertising still reigns even with its dubious results.
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Facebook Poses No Immediate Threat To LinkedIn
Seeking Alpha
Recently, there have been rumors about Facebook (FB) partnering with Branchout, Jobvite, and Work4 labs, to start its own job board. LinkedIn's (LNKD) shares dropped 5% and Facebook's shares jumped 2% after the news came out on Monday. We are of ...
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Actually, LinkedIn Could Get a Boost from a Facebook Jobs Page
Forbes
People might learn of new positions open on Facebook—especially if they harness their Facebook friends and network to assist in the search--but then they would turn to LinkedIn for further research or to find contacts who could help them.
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Is Facebook's new mobile ad campaign too invasive?
MSN Money
Facebook (FB) wants to show investors it can make real money with its mobile platform. According to The Wall Street Journal, the 900-million-plus social network plans to launch a new advertising product that will deliver targeted ads to the Facebook ...
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Facebook marketing specialist Brand Networks expands to New York and LA
Boston.com
As big companies try to figure out how to connect with customers on Facebook, a five-year old Boston marketing agency is reaping the benefits. Brand Networks, founded by a veteran of Arnold Worldwide, is announcing this week that it is expanding new ...
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Perk Wars: Facebook, Zynga, Google Jockey for Talent
CIO Today
Technology firms are lavishing employees with perks in Silicon Valley at a time when much of the U.S. is experiencing the opposite: job cuts, belt-tightening at the office and a generally sour economy.
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Facebook rises, but most techs are in the red
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Tech stocks trimmed their losses in late trading Monday, but most of the sector's leaders closed in the red and Facebook Inc. put in one of day's few upbeat.
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Rakuten Billionaire Talks Pinterest, Facebook And Global Expansion
Forbes
Japanese billionaire Hiroshi Mikitani says his e-commerce giant needs to be more aggressive, but not too intrusive when it comes to Pinterest's millions of users.
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A Reality Series Finds Silicon Valley Cringing
New York Times
"Silicon Valley" the show was in part inspired by "The Social Network," the 2010 film about the founding of Facebook. Silicon Valley the place did not like "The Social Network" because the film said Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook as a way to impress ...
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Facebook, CNN prepare app to display votes
San Francisco Chronicle
The app "will enable people to share their commitment to vote and support of particular issues or candidates with friends and will provide a way to see how many of their own friends they've enlisted to support those issues or candidates," Facebook and ...
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Five firms to test IPO market in the wake of Facebook debut
Los Angeles Times
Kayak Software, Palo Alto Networks, Fender Musical Instruments, Five Below and Durata Therapeutics are proceeding with their IPOs nearly two months after Facebook's botched offering.
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Los Angeles Times
IPO market thaws as Facebook fears fade
Businessweek
Facebook hasn't recovered all of its losses since going public in May in a problem-ridden offering. But market fears from its high-profile stumble seem to be fading. Fender Musical Instruments Corp., the well-known guitar maker; Palo Alto Networks ...
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Facebook App Center lands in Australia
ZDNet
Summary: Released in the US in June, the App Center for Facebook has come down under.
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Facebook Use Feeds Anxiety And Inadequacy Says Small Study
Medical News Today
Use of social media like Facebook and Twitter may be feeding anxiety and increasing feelings of inadequacy, according to a small UK study reported in The Telegraph on Monday.For t.
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Phone ban costs Facebook yoga instructor her job
San Francisco Chronicle
For years, yoga instructor Alice Van Ness has started her classes with a simple request - that students turn their cell phones off. The 35-year-old San Carlos resident was fired last month after managers at the fitness contractor she worked for ...
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San Francisco Chronicle
An M&A Insider Explains Facebook's Game Plan For Massive Acquisitions (FB)
San Francisco Chronicle
For the moment, says this source, Facebook's "MO" on deals is to find a "really small company with smart engineers" and make a "whatever it takes" offer to get the deal done. Facebook's most likely acquisition targets will share one key attribute with ...
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Why Facebook and GM Should Sign a Prenup
TheStreet.com
After nearly calling it quits over advertising the two companies are working to get back together Will it last this time?.
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CNN Picks Facebook for Presidential Running Mate
Search Engine Journal
cnn facebook election partnership Although the next presidential election is approximately four months away, CNN has already announced its running mate – Facebook. Joel Kaplan, Facebook's Vice President of U.S. Public Policy, said the following ...
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Facebook's App Center Available to All Users in Most English-speaking Countries
PCWorld
Facebook has expanded access to its App Center to all users in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa and the U.K., the company said...
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Palo Alto, Kayak to test IPO market recovery
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The market for initial public offerings may be warming up with two relatively high-profile deals setting price terms on Monday, nearly two months after Facebook's.
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An M&A Insider Explains Facebook's Game Plan For Massive Acquisitions
Business Insider
He told us that his firm – one of many middlemen advisory groups in the M&A industry – regularly calls Facebook's corporate development team on deals that make sense, and that the company always passes without giving the potential merger at hand much ...
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Business Insider
CNN, Facebook announce 'America's Choice 2012' partnership
CNN (blog)
(CNN) -- CNN and Facebook on Monday announced "America's Choice 2012," an election-year partnership that offers viewers opportunities to "share their thoughts and feelings on candidates and critical issues facing the country ahead of Election Day," the ...
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Montblanc Announces Facebook Application in Partnership With Texas ...
MarketWatch (press release)
NEW YORK, July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Montblanc announced today the new Texas Children's Hospital "Wish Lantern" application on the official Montblanc Facebook. The "Wish Lantern" application acts as a microsite within Montblanc's ...
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CNN and Facebook go all social on the 2012 election
CNET (blog)
CNN and Facebook partner up to make your voting a much more public experience -- up to and including an app that lets you broadcast who and what you voted for, should you desire. Read this blog post by Donna Tam on Politics and Law.
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Facebook, CNN team up to add social data to 2012 election coverage
Digitaltrends.com
CNN and Facebook have joined forces in attempt to bring more voter-centric data to 2012 election coverage.
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Digitaltrends.com

Blogs14 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook Acq-Retired Face.com, But Here's Why It Will Bank By ...
By Josh Constine
Tagged photos are Facebook's lifeblood, and it would be happy to suck them out of other apps. That's why I suspect Facebook will resurrect Face.com's facial recognition API, even though it just shut it down less than a month after acquiring the ...
TechCrunch
10 reasons Apple, Facebook & Google chose North Carolina for ...
By Katie Fehrenbacher
We interviewed executives at some of the biggest Internet companies, as well as hardware vendors, economic development groups, and utilities to find out why North Carolina has emerged as a hub for Internet leaders mega data centers.
GigaOM
Facebook Yoga Teacher Fired For Banning Phones in Class ...
By Kate Freeman
A yoga instructor hired to teach classes at Facebook says she was fired for banning students from checking their mobile devices in class.
Mashable » Social Media
Facebook and CNN team up for U.S. presidential election initiatives
By Brittany Darwell
Facebook will also provide CNN with metrics about the discussion of each presidential and vice presidential candidate on the social network. The companies will survey voting-age users around the time of the national conventions, ...
Inside Facebook
More Women On Facebook, Twitter And Pinterest Than Men
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Women are dominating in the digital "battle of the sexes." That's what the numbers say, anyway.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Kayak Tests the Post-Facebook IPO Market
By Kevin Kelleher
In the wake of the troubled Facebook public offering, Kayak is finally launching its own IPO into uncertain waters. The move seems especially bold during a period when other Web startups have received less-than-enthusiastic responses from ...
ReadWriteWeb
Facebook Might Launch Job Search Feature - AllFacebook
By David Cohen
Although LinkedIn is still king when it comes to finding jobs through social networking, Facebook might make some waves soon with a job search feature. A Dow Jones Newswires reporter recently heard that Facebook is planning to launch its ...
All Facebook
Psychotic Necrophiliac Killer Has Fans on Facebook
By Louis Peitzman
Our fascination with gritty true crime is nothing new, but thanks to 21st century innovations, we can now "like" psychopaths on Facebook. At least, until Facebook wises up and takes the fan page down.
Gawker:
IDF Ranks transforms pro-Israel Facebook uses to 'virtual soldiers'
By Allison Deger
IDF Ranks, Israel's newest hasbara tool combines sharing on social media with being a virtual soldier.
Mondoweiss
Facebook to launch job listings service | Ubergizmo
By Dakota Torres
Facebook is looking to branch out and launch its own job board later this summer according to multiple sources. The sources also acknowledged that Facebook isn't going to try and become a huge competitor in the job recruiting market (like [.
Ubergizmo
INFOGRAPHIC: Suggested Changes To Facebook's Engagement ...
By David Cohen
Better ways to measure engagement with content on Facebook pages continue to be discussed, with the latest crack at the subject coming from Ticular.
AllFacebook
Facebook Post-IPO: Less "Like," More "Subscribe" -peHUB
We get a guest post from Tien Tzuo of Zuora, who says Facebook will need more than just "Likes" now that it is a public company.
peHUB | Site Wide Activity
Social Media Newsfeed: Facebook-CNN Partnership | Twitter App ...
By Tim Sohn
Social Media Newsfeed: Facebook-CNN Partnership | Twitter App | Free Google Class.
SocialTimes
Why I Deleted My Facebook Account
By Man Bartlett
Artist Man Bartlett describes why and how he deleted his Facebook account.
Hyperallergic

Web2 new results for Facebook
 
TIME DotCom and Facebook Invest In Massive Undersea Internet ...
MojoKid writes "This week, TIME dotCom (out of Malaysia) has entered into a construction and maintenance agreement of the Asia Pacific Gateway (APG) ...
tech.slashdot.org/.../time-dotcom-and-facebook-invest-in-mass...
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