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Facebook Acquires Spool Team for Mobile
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Facebook has acquired the team behind San Francisco start-up Spool in its latest talent acquisition aimed at getting better performance from its mobile business.
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
What your Facebook page says about your personality
Fox News
If you think you're keeping any secrets on Facebook, think again. It's not just what you post on the social networking site, but how you post it that reveals what kind of person you are.
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Facebook Buys Mobile Bookmarking Firm Spool
PC Magazine
Facebook has added another acquisition to its arsenal with social bookmarking firm Spool.
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Facebook's Zuckerberg refinances home at 1.05 percent
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Feeling pretty good about snagging a refi rate in the 3s, aren't you? Think you got a deal, don't you? Then listen to this, from Bloomberg: Mark.
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Facebook posting leads to murder charges against Chicago 16-year-old
Chicago Tribune
A 16-year-old Chicago boy is charged with murder after video surfaces on Facebook of his deadly attack on West Rogers Park man who was collecting cans in an alley.
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Chicago Tribune
Value of Facebook advertising questioned in new report
Detroit Free Press
Is money spent by companies on advertisements to gain likes on Facebook from people who have no real interest in their products a waste?
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3 teens charged in beating death of disabled man posted on Facebook
msnbc.com
Two more teens have been charged in the beating death of a 62-year-old disabled man that Chicago police said was recorded on a cell phone and posted to Facebook.
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teens charged in deadly attack posted on Facebook
CBS News
Police say two teens used a cell phone to film a brutal beating last Tuesday Read more by Crimesider Staff on CBS News' Crimesider.
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CBS News
Hopefully, Facebook's Acquisition Of Spool Will Help Out That "Improved" iOS ...
WebProNews
Over the weekend, Facebook acquired Spool, makers of the popular Spool apps fro iOS and Android. Spool, on the surface, is basically an app that allows users to store web content for offline viewing – that includes text, audio, and video. If you've ...
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Why Facebook Ad Haters Are Wrong – Here's How Marketers Can Do Better
Search Engine Watch
A BBC report claims Facebook ads are a waste of money for marketers, while other reports take a major Facebook advertiser out of context in another swipe at the social network. How did BBC get it so wrong and what does this mean to marketers?
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This Week in Tech: Franken to quiz Facebook on facial recognition
The Hill (blog)
Facebook will be under the microscope on Wednesday at a Senate hearing focused on the privacy implications of facial recognition technology. Rob Sherman, manager of privacy and public policy at Facebook, will represent the social networking site at the ...
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3 teens accused in fatal beating of 62-year-old Chicago man posted on Facebook
Washington Post
Authorities in Chicago say three teens are charged with first-degree murder in the fatal beating of a 62-year-old man after they posted a video of the attack on Facebook.
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Citigroup Asks Facebook Users Whether They'd Like Social Banking
Bloomberg
Citigroup Inc. began asking Facebook Inc. users a provocative question over the weekend. The third- biggest U.S. bank wants to know whether Web surfers would be willing to use the social-networking service to do banking.
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Facebook's Still Debating Whether or Not to Let in Your 12-Year-Old; Are You ...
WebProNews
And they do – all the time. Although Facebook's current policy plainly prohibits anyone under the age of 13 from operating an account on the site, most reports put the number of preteen Facebook users in the millions. In fact, if a kid is on Facebook ...
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Facebook video leads police to murder suspects
ABC7Chicago.com
Police say video of a deadly assault posted on Facebook helped them catch three teen-aged murder suspects.
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ABC7Chicago.com
Perk Of Being Rich: Facebook's Zuckerberg Pays 1 Percent Interest On Mortgage
NPR (blog)
With the ability to absorb month-to-month changes, the mega rich can essentially borrow for free.
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Facebook Ads Academy Review of Brain Moran & Get 10000 Fans Program ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
A quick Facebook Ads Academy review on http://facebookadsacademy.org/ shows that the program comes with multiple modules like "Become a Facebook Ad Expert", "The Instant Campaign Start Up", "The 4 Hidden Campaign Types", "Facebook Ad Best ...
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3 teens charged in fatal beating of man on Facebook
The Seattle Times
3 teens charged in fatal beating of man on Facebook. Authorities in Chicago say three teens are charged with first-degree murder in the fatal beating of a 62-year-old man after they posted a video of the attack on Facebook. The Associated Press ...
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Zuckerberg's Loan Gives New Meaning to the 1%: Mortgages
Bloomberg
The Facebook Inc. (FB) founder refinanced a $5.95 million mortgage on his Palo Alto, California, home with a 30-year adjustable-rate loan starting at 1.05 percent, according to public records for the property. While almost all lending rates have ...
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Biggest Post-Facebook IPO Wave Is Set For This Week
Benzinga
The reception to IPOs slowed in the second quarter in the wake of Facebook's lackluster market debut. New issues also were down, however, as companies delayed their moves to the public markets amid a declining stock market. IPOs issued in Q2 rose an ...
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Cops: 2 more charged in deadly attack posted on Facebook
Chicago Tribune
Two more teens have been charged in connection in the deadly attack on a 62-year-old man last week that was recorded and posted on Facebook the same day a judge denied bond for a 16-year-old.
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Acquisition Update: Facebook Hires Entire Spool Team
Search Engine Journal
spool team hired by facebook On Saturday morning, Facebook announced that they had acquired the employees behind the mobile-bookmarking service Spool. The San Francisco-based startup, which initially launched at TechCrunch Disrupt in September ...
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Investing Lessons from the Facebook IPO
Forbes
Don't go here without a plan. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife) At a recent wonky financial trade show, a gentleman approached, tugged at my elbow and said, "So, you're in the media? How about that Facebook IPO?" "Boy was he ever wrong," ...
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Facebook's Latest 'Acqu-Hire' Is Mobile Content-Caching Service Spool
AllFacebook
The latest "acqu-hire" by Facebook is mobile content-caching startup Spool, which announced over the weekend that it was shuttering operations and that its team was joining the social network.
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Teen Charged with Murder for Beating in West Ridge Alley
NBC Chicago
A witness spotted the video on Jones' Facebook and forwarded it to a second witness, who identified Jones as the person who battered him in a separate incident June 30, prosecutors said. Those witnesses contacted police, who arrested Jones in south ...
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3 Chicago Teens Accused Of Murder After Posting About It On Facebook
Business Insider
Three teenagers in Chicago were charged with first-degree murder after they allegedly beat a 62-year-old man to death and posted a video of the attack on Facebook. Delfino Mora, who was disabled due to a workplace injury, was beaten Tuesday in a North ...
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Business Insider
Facebook acquires mobile startup's team
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) – Facebook Inc. is acquiring the engineering team of Spool, a San Francisco mobile app developer, in another sign of the social networking company's focus on the mobile market. Spool makes apps for Google Inc.'s Android ...
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Facebook in Asia: Growth Deceleration Continues [Latest Stats]
Forbes
FACEBOOK NOW HAS OVER 950 MILLION USERS WORLDWIDE and 80% of its user base are from outside U.S. and Canada. As of end of Quarter 2 2012, Facebook exceeds 200 million users in Asia. There are now 204.9 million Facebook users in Asia, ...
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Forbes

Blogs13 new results for Facebook
 
Here is why Facebook bought Spool — Tech News and Analysis
By Om Malik
Facebook is buying Spool, a mobile app company and shutting down the app. While it seems like an acqua-hire, in reality this deal is about the technology built by this tiny startup. And that is why Dropbox, Twitter and Google also came calling ...
GigaOM
You Are the Product of Facebook | Social Media Today
By DouglasKarr
Joel Helbling stopped by the office on Friday for a great lunch where we chatted on a number of topics. Joel quoted someone who said that, as a social media company, you have to decide what your product is… the people or the platform.
Social Media Today - The world's...
Facebook users can now see if and when you have read their group ...
By Graham Cluley
Facebook quietly introduced new functionality onto its site last week that could have some worried about their online privacy. The social network is rolling out the ability to see if and when someone has seen a post on a Facebook group.
Naked Security - Sophos
Facebook Is Giving Kids a Delicious Taste of Gambling
By Doug Barry
That was bad enough, but now some concerned authority figures are worried that Facebook is turning children into gamblers, setting them up for an old age of nursing home field trips to the Tropicana in Atlantic City, where they'll be left to zonk ...
Jezebel
The Party's Over: How Facebook Is Forcing Brands to Buy ...
By Mediaite Staff
Remember when brands and their managers were reveling in all the new possibilities they would have to promote themselves online, particularly on social.
Mediaite
Facebook Hacking and the Value of Social Currency – Danny Brown
By Danny
Being true to yourself online and building social currency not only helps define you as a person - it can also help you when you need it the most.
Danny Brown
Was fired Facebook yoga instructor right to silence cell phone user ...
By Dean Takahashi
Yoga instructor Alice Van Ness made headlines this week because she was canned from her job teaching classes at Facebook, after she tried to silence a student from using her cell phone during a class.
VentureBeat
Digital Music News - Good Morning! Aretha, EC, Facebook, Pitchfork ...
By niko
The Queen of Soul, 18-time Grammy winner Aretha Franklin, might be next on the list of celebrity American Idol judges. In an email to CNN on Saturday, Franklin expressed interest in joining the show, even suggesting a sidekick in songwriter ...
Digital Music News
Weiner links phone to facebook–sign of things to come? - Le·gal In ...
By Anne Sorock
Perhaps even more telling, Weiner was discovered linking his mobile phone up to facebook: While mayor isn't off the table, the more attainable "public advocate" post, which garners a salary of around $165000, seems more likely. It's seems ...
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Is Facebook damaging your reputation with sneaky political posts ...
By Michael Nystrom
...you might be shocked to learn that Facebook is automatically publishing posts under your name and placing them at the top of the News feed for your friends. In some cases, these posts can include controversial political content that you ...
Peace . Gold . Liberty | Revolution
Facebook Templates deal - MightyDeals | DesignFloat
By mightydeals
Everyone who's anyone these days has a Facebook page. We're not just talking about regular users, we mean you businessmen and entrepreneurs. You need a solid outlet to interact with your customers, as...
DesignFloat | Published News
Check Out The Czech Republic's New Facebook-Inspired Logo ...
By Jim Edwards
Email; More. Share on Tumblr. A A A. Tweet. Email. Share on Tumblr. The Czech Republic's new official logo for tourism advertising is this Facebook-inspired piece of branding in which the country is renamed "Czech Republike": ...
Business Insider
Facebook yoga instructor fired for telling Facebook employee not to ...
By jwz
In its termination notice, the company suggested the Facebook incident was part of a pattern of strict behavior on Van Ness' part; she had previously asked a Cisco employee not to take photographs of the class while it was in session. Her blog ...
jwz

Web4 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook SDK 3.0 Beta for iOS - Facebook Developers
We're happy to announce a major update to the Facebook SDK for iOS that makes it easier and faster to develop Facebook-integrated iOS apps. We've also ...
developers.facebook.com/.../facebook-sdk-3-0-beta-for-ios/
Update to Facebook Groups - Facebook Newsroom
Facebook's latest news, announcements and media resources - Facebook's latest news, announcements and media resources - News.
newsroom.fb.com/News/Update-to-Facebook-Groups-186.aspx
'Facebook depression' is disputed by study - Health - Mental health ...
A study released today is the first to dispute a warning by the American Academy of Pediatrics that exposure to Facebook could lead to depression. Researchers ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../facebook-depression-disputed-study/
BBC News - Facebook 'likes' and adverts' value doubted
An investigation suggests firms are wasting money to gain "likes" from fake profiles and users who have no interest in their products.
www.bbc.com/news/technology-18813237


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