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News25 new results for Facebook
 
Iran seeks to work with Facebook against porn
Houston Chronicle
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A semi-official Iranian news agency says police hope to work with Facebook to fight cyber-crimes and pornography — a turnabout in Tehran's stance toward the social networking giant that it previously banned after activists used it as an ...
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Facebook Page Admins Get Greater Control, Like Scheduled Posts
PC Magazine
Facebook on Monday highlighted some of the recent updates now available to Pages administrators, which are intended to provide greater control over what gets posted. The three updates include scheduled and unpublished page posts, as well as more ...
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Facebook Revamps its Small Business Resource Site
Business Insider
For business owners who may be new to Facebook you'll want to check out the information related to getting started. Similar to how Google's Webmaster Academy is designed to walk you through the process of building your presence and offering related ...
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Mike Huckabee Calls For National 'Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day'
Huffington Post
In June 2012, Oreo posted a photo of a rainbow sextuple-stacked cookie to its <a href="https://www.facebook.com/oreo" target="_hplink">Facebook</a> page in honor of Pride month. While the responses were mostly positive, some commenters were ...
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Facebook's Zuckerberg wins privacy patent, 6 years on
CNET (blog)
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 2006 patent application governing certain privacy settings has been approved by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office -- six years after first being submitted. The patent, number 8225376, was first applied for on July 25, ...
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Facebook Earnings Call Offers Shot at Rebuilding Reputation
AdAge.com
Facebook this week is getting its first crack as a public company to allay the growth concerns that have made it the second-worst performing U.S. technology initial public offering of 2012. The shares have tumbled 24% since Facebook, the largest ...
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Google and Facebook boost federal lobbying in 2nd qtr
Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 (Reuters) - Google Inc and Facebook Inc ramped up federal lobbying spending in the second quarter, as the Internet companies chatted up government officials about everything from online advertising and immigration reform to ...
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Facebook Is Worth $33 But Faces A Tough Crowd For Earnings
Forbes
Facebook will be reporting its first quarterly earnings as a public company since its IPO in May. It generated more than a billion dollars in quarterly revenue last quarter with a major portion of it coming from social advertising. Soon after its IPO, its share price ...
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Facebook preps for earnings close-up as questions abound
CNET (blog)
Facebook's stock price since the company's much maligned initial public offering illustrates that investors aren't quite sure what to make of the company. Certainly, investors aren't buying Facebook's initial $100 billion valuation. Today, Facebook is valued a bit ...
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Ahead of earnings day, Facebook manages expectations
CNET
The execs at Facebook know just how unforgiving public investors can be, and plenty feel burned by Facebook, its bankers, and the Nasdaq. (Hence all the lawsuits against Facebook, and Facebook's fight with the Nasdaq). That's why the company is hoping ...
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Nasdaq Ups Ante in Facebook Reimbursement Plan
CIO Today
Firms ensnared in the Facebook IPO debacle are getting some compensation. Nasdaq is increasing the amount of money it will offer to customers who lost money during the bungled Facebook initial public offering, when computer glitches delayed trading ...
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CIO Today
Facebook Makes It Easier To Market Brand Pages
WebProNews
Facebook is about to release their first quarterly earnings as a public company. Their responsibility is to their share holders now who expect the social networking giant to keep bringing in the money. One of those methods is by getting more brands on board.
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Facebook triples its lobbying spending
The Hill (blog)
Facebook's record spending on lobbying signals that the newly public company is expanding its footprint in Washington as it faces scrutiny on privacy issues. The site lobbied in the last quarter on issues such as privacy and protecting children's privacy online, ...
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Mark Zuckerberg Patents Facebook's Complicated Privacy Settings... Shortly ...
Forbes
After a six-year wait, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is the proud new owner of his very first patent. Ironically, given Zuck's many data exposure stumbles, it is a patent on privacy. ReadWriteWeb was first to note the granting of U.S. patent #8225376 on ...
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Look At All These Things Facebook Is Doing For Your Page
WebProNews
Now that Facebook is a public company, it's more focused on businesses than ever before. Facebook has been a tremendous tool for businesses for years (some businesses more than others), but the company is doing more with Facebook ads and Facebook ...
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Stalkbook: Stalk anyone, even if you're not Facebook friends
CNET
MIT graduate Oliver Yeh recently built a service called Stalkbook that he claims allows you to stalk people on Facebook even if you're not friends with them on the social network. Yeh has a simple but malicious trick: he uses other Facebook users' credentials ...
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Bare-All: Costa Rica's Facebook Frenzy
Huffington Post
It was June 29, 2005, and I had just returned from a semester abroad in Italy. I had spent the past five months stuffing my body with the most salivating gastronomic indulgences and snapping photos of the most jaw-dropping architectural feats in Florence, Italy.
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A Timeline of Recent Facebook Ad Changes
Mashable
So in May, when General Motors pulled its $10 million ad campaign right before Facebook's IPO, it rocked the ad industry probably as much as it rocked Facebook. But a new Q2 2012 report from TBG Digital, a leading Facebook advertising buyer, shows ...
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James Holmes Facebook Tribute: Assholes Celebrate Alleged Batman Shooter
SF Weekly (blog)
In the last few days there's been a disgusting rise in Facebook fan pages paying tribute to James Holmes, the 24-year-old man who is accused of opening fire during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 people and ...
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Facebook, Google Up Lobbying Expenses in Q2 2012
DailyTech
According to Reuters, Google spent a total of $3.92 million on lobbying in the second quarter. It lobbied the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Department of Commerce and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over issues like mobile location ...
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DailyTech
Facebook Launches the App Center: What's Next?
iMedia Connection (blog)
Recently Facebook launched its App Center, a Facebook-centric collection of apps instantly recognizable to anyone who has visited Apple's App Store or Android's "Google Play"marketplace. While app developers scrambled to be amongst the first apps listed ...
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Facebook's first investor bets big on Aussie 'corporate refugees'
Sydney Morning Herald
Facebook board member and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel has made his first investment in Australia in a $1.2 million funding round for business software maker ScriptRock. It's a potentially life-changing deal for Sydney-based ScriptRock founders Michael ...
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Facebook's IPO casts a long shadow over Silicon Valley, survey shows
VentureBeat
For all the talk of a funding boom, Bay Area investors are plagued with doubts this summer due to Facebook's disappointing IPO and the deepening debt crisis in Europe. The results of the quarterly Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index, released ...
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VentureBeat
Mike Huckabee Calls for Chick-Fil-A Day
ABC News (blog)
Mike Huckabee's Facebook invitation to "Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day" on Wednesday, August 1. The Facebook Page for the event, which was created less than 24 hours ago, has attracted an enormous fan base that will prompt people nationwide to indulge ...
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ABC News (blog)
Stalkbook Lets You View Anyone's Facebook Info, Even if You're Not Friends
Complex.com (blog)
Recent MIT graduate Oliver Yeh has taken Facebook stalking to another level. Yeh created a service called Stalkbook that allows people to view user's Facebook info even if they're not friends with said user. Yeh told IEEE in an interview that this is all possible ...
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Blogs10 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook Testing Subscribe Feature For Pages - AllFacebook
By Justin Lafferty
Facebook users can currently subscribe to other users, as a way to read status updates but not enter into an invasive Facebook connection (Mark Zuckerberg has this setup). Now, Facebook is testing the subscribe feature for pages. But what ...
AllFacebook
Facebook Revamps its Small Business Resource Site
By Lisa Barone
Facebook for Business, the social network's resource area for small and mid-sized agencies, has undergone a significant revamp to help SMBs get more from the.
Small Business News, Tips, Advice...
Is Facebook's Popularity Falling On Its Face? [Infographic]
By Frank Reed
With Facebook's first quarterly earnings report looming this Thursday, there are so many questions being thrown around that it can ...
Marketing Pilgrim - Internet...
Facebook spent $1.61M on lobbying expenses in first half of 2012 ...
By Jennifer Van Grove
Facebook is making its presence felt in Washington D.C. with an increasingly padded wallet allocated to courting the nation's lawmakers. The social network, according to its second quarter lobbying report (see below), spent $960000 on ...
VentureBeat
Report: Facebook Testing Cost Per Click Search Ads
By barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)
TechCrunch reports that Facebook is testing a cost-per-click (CPC) based search ad in the search header. They shared a screen shot showing one of the search results labeled as.
Search Engine Roundtable
Facebook Testing Subscribe Button For Pages | WebProNews
By Josh Wolford
Back in 2011, Facebook launched the Subscribe button, which allowed users to sign up to receive updates from other users' updates – either all of them, most of them, or only the important ones. Users can Subscribe to their friends, but the ...
WebProNews
Woman Allegedly Stabs Husband Over Facebook Post - The Frisky
By The Huffington Post
Rhonda Washington and her husband agree on one thing: She stabbed him during a fight. However, they can't agree on whether it was because she was mad that he - Full Size Image.
The Frisky
Joanna Popper: Overnight Facebook Prom Queen: How Did I Get So ...
By Joanna Popper
Is the Facebook invasion of invisible friends like that sneaky change in fashion when a size 12 miraculously became an 8 to stroke our egos?
The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed
Tell your Facebook friends about severe weather with The Weather ...
By Natan Edelsburg
The Weather Channel is at it again taking social to new heights to deliver weather info. A year ago, the TV network made headlines with their first-of-a-kind Twitter partnership. More recently, they've relaunched their website with more social ...
Lost Remote
Scam Alert: My Total Profile Views Today Facebook App Spams ...
By Dave LeClair
Another group of malicious people have started a new Facebook scam that will spam your poor unsuspecting friends with wall posts and constant annoyances.
MakeUseOf » Facebook & Twitter


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