Tuesday, August 14, 2012

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Will Facebook Shares Face New Pressure?
Wall Street Journal
Will Facebook Shares Face New Pressure? A cache of privately held Facebook shares could begin hitting the market this week, potentially putting further pressure on the tech stock. Telis Demos discusses on Markets Hub. Photo: AP. Up Next ...
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Facebook's Lockup Expiration: Who Could Sell
Wall Street Journal (blog)
We know the scale of the problem for Facebook: 421 million shares currently floating out there in the market, nearly 2 billion more waiting in the wings to be sold by pre-IPO holders over the course of the next year. Reuters. The first lockup tranche ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Jailer fired for sending Facebook friend request to Georgia inmate
NBCNews.com (blog)
Oconee County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Lee Weems said Andrea Rogers resigned and "pretty much owned up to his portion of the thing pretty quickly" after an internal investigation revealed he sent a Facebook friend request to a female inmate.
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NBCNews.com (blog)
Lawyer vows to appeal ruling that says Facebook is not 'like' free speech
Fox News
The deputy, Daniel Ray Carter Jr., and five other employees were fired after clicking the "like" button on Facebook in support of Jim Adams, their boss' opponent in the race for Hampton sheriff in 2009. Carter and the other five terminated employees ...
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Expecting a baby? You can now make it Facebook official
Los Angeles Times
"Life Events are easy and expressive ways to mark significant moments in your life such as getting married, buying a house or traveling to new places," Facebook said in a release. "If you choose to, you can now share that you are expecting a baby with ...
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Facebook touts App Center traffic to iTunes, Google Play
ZDNet
The social network reports that there are more than 235 million people playing games on Facebook.com each month -- a modest increase (at least by Facebook standards) from 205 million last year. To put that into perspective, Facebook has more than 900 ...
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Facebook posts help Detroit brothers Thomas and Raymond Highers get new ...
CBS News
(CBS/AP) DETROIT - They served 25 years in prison for murder, but brothers Thomas and Raymond Highers walked free Monday evening thanks to Facebook posts that helped convince authorities to give them a new trial for a 1987 killing, reports the Detroit ...
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CBS News
Facebook's Instagram Deal Moves One Step Closer: UK's Office Of Fair Trading ...
TechCrunch
Facebook has today moved one step closer in its proposed acquisition of photo-sharing app Instagram. The Office of Fair Trading in the UK has given the deal the all-clear. The announcement was made via an RNS regulatory statement, which briefly says ...
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FTC Accuses Facebook of "Deceptive" Apps Program
Forbes
Facebook has been under a lot scrutiny about the veracity of everything from its users to its likes recently, and an investigation from the Federal Trade Commission is suggesting that the social media company's "verified apps" program may have been as ...
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Ryan knocks Obama off perch as most talked about on Facebook
CNN
According to the exclusive Facebook-CNN Election Talk Meter, Republican Rep. Paul Ryan, in the first 54 hours after being announced as Mitt Romney's vice-presidential running mate, sucked up the political oxygen in the social media landscape -- with ...
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Facebook insiders can sell stock as 'lock-up' ends
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Facebook's early investors and a handful of top executives become eligible on Thursday to sell stock they own in the social networking company. It marks the beginning of a time-honored process for public companies, which will culminate in the fall ...
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Facebook helps free brothers from jail
CNN
Share Flag as inappropriate. Loading... Alert icon. Sign in or sign up now! Alert icon. Loading... Published on Aug 13, 2012 by CNN. New witnesses speak through Facebook to help free two brothers who've spent 25 years in jail. Jason Carroll reports.
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In the Wake of Facebook's Richter Blackout, Does the Social Network Still ...
Huffington Post
We were quite surprised last year when Facebook took down a photo posted by the New York Academy of Art on our page. It never occurred to us that the school, one of the world's leading institutions teaching art studio skills and techniques, drawing ...
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Marijuana Reform Facebook Ads Restored After Social Network Ends 'Just Say ...
Huffington Post
More than 15000 supporters signed an online petition calling for Facebook to bring back the latest batch of Just Say Now ads, catching the eye of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California.
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Facebook Shows Off Its Good Side In Aftermath Of Iranian Quakes
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Back in 2009, at the height of mass protests that followed Iran's disputed presidential election, Facebook emerged as an important tool for protesters to share news and information. It had such an impact that the authorities even branded Facebook a ...
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RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Facebook Lockup Expiration Frees 271M Shares
Bloomberg
Ratings have been disabled for this video. Published on Aug 13, 2012 by Bloomberg. Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg Contributing Editor Paul Kedrosky remarks on the Facebook lockup. He speaks with Emily Chang on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg ...
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Your absence on Facebook may be holding you back
NBCNews.com
When it comes to Facebook and other social media, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. At least that's some career expects are saying. Job applicants long have known that what they post on social networks can hurt their chances of getting ...
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Facebook camera concept recognizes you by the photos you upload
DVICE
The tiny blue box, modeled to mimic the look of the now iconic Facebook Like button, is depicted as containing a facial recognition mechanism that would instantly associate your face with your Facebook account and deliver on-site discounts automatically.
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DVICE
What a Chinese Internet Company Can Teach Facebook
Wall Street Journal
What a Chinese Internet Company Can Teach Facebook. Facebook can learn a few lessons from Chinese social media company Tencent. The WSJ's Deborah Kan speaks to Asia Tech Editor Juro Osawa about the companies varied business models and ...
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Hedge funds profit from Facebook, oil in July
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Trading oil, the euro and shares in Facebook (FB.O) were among the bets to help drive gains for hedge funds in July, meaning the industry has largely shrugged off the euro zone debt crisis to make money every month so far this year.
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Facebook Moves Away From Dumb Broadcasting Tool to Marketing Database
AdAge.com
Available to some pages as of the beginning of August and rolling out to all pages over the next few weeks, it's Facebook's most significant update for brands since its IPO back in May. Before this update, country and language were the only factors ...
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Facebook Ad Network
ClickZ
Right now the big story is how Facebook stock is getting slammed and mobile is going to kill its ad model. While I agree that the stock may have been overpriced, I think a lot of people don't really understand the true potential of Facebook's future ...
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Bellingham Costco shoppers take to Facebook to ask for 'American Only' hours
KOMO News
Some Bellingham residents think the number of Canadian customers coming across the border to shop, particularly at Costco, is getting out of hand, and a Facebook page set up earlier this summer is calling for special "American Only" shopping hours.
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Building apps for Facebook: A dance with the devil
CNET
"I had explicit approval from Facebook to build what I was building," says Caldwell, a software developer who unexpectedly found himself in the crosshairs because an app he was building to run atop Facebook was similar to Facebook's recently unveiled ...
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Dewayne Powers, Georgia Jailer, Fired After Facebook Friend Requesting ...
Huffington Post
Authorities say the inmate didn't have access to her phone or a computer in jail, but a subsequent examination of her computer showed the Facebook friend requests sent by the men. Weems says there was never any physical contact between the deputies ...
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Facebook Spent $700000 On Mark Zuckerberg's Private Jets Last Year
Business Insider
Here's one little bit from Facebook's initial public offering that it looks like we missed, but were reminded of last night: Facebook spent about $700000 on private charter flights for CEO Mark Zuckerberg. It's not like Zuckerberg is jet-setting ...
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Business Insider
Lythgoe sets Facebook bow of reality show: Ovation's 'A Chance to Dance' to ...
Chicago Tribune
Nigel and Simon Lythgoe have partnered with social entertainment producer Milyoni and the Ovation network to bow "A Chance to Dance" on Facebook simultaneous with its airing on television in the U.S. Move is seen as a way to increase viewership but ...
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Facebook Inc. (FB), Users Put the 'Social' in Social Media
Insider Monkey (blog)
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) is considered a pioneer in the social-media, Web 2.0 area of the Web universe, but some recent stories have provided Facebook with the the opportunity to be the "social" in social media. Whether it's from its own in-house ...
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Insider Monkey (blog)

Blogs13 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook Says It Now Has 235M Monthly Gamers, App Center Hits ...
By Ingrid Lunden
Facebook's push for more engagement on its platform, to drive advertising and other monetization efforts (and to counterbalance that drooping stock price), is showing some gains, according to updated figures on both games and app usage ...
TechCrunch
Facebook Shares Unlocking - Telis Demos and Shayndi Raice ...
By Telis Demos and Shayndi Raice
An avalanche of privately held Facebook shares could begin hitting the market this week -- potentially putting further pressure on the company's stock -- as rules expire that have kept some early investors from cashing out.
AllThingsD
Facebook's number of servers soar to an estimated 180K - GigaOm
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Facebook probably has about 180000 servers out there for its 900 million plus user base. That's dramatic growth from an estimated 30000 three years ago.
GigaOM
Huge wave of Facebook shares to hit market starting this week ...
By Dylan Tweney
Less than two weeks after Facebook's stock price hit a low of $20.84 comes the reminder that about two billion more shares will hit the market between now and May, 2013.
VentureBeat
You Can Now Notify Your Facebook Friends When You're Expecting
By Lauren Indvik
Facebook has made it easier to tell your friends when you're expecting.
Mashable » Social Media
Facebook Launches "Explicit Actions"
By Drew Olanoff
Facebook has announced something for developers today that will allow their users to control what gets shared on the social network. These "explicitly shared actions" will make posts on your Timeline come off as more authentic, since they're ...
The Next Web
8 Tips for Using Facebook Scheduled Posts | Social Media Examiner
By Andrea Vahl
Facebook scheduled posts: Everything you need to know to batch your facebook posts into blocks to give you more time to focus on your business.
Social Media Examiner
Reaction To FTC's Facebook Charge: No Like
By Dave Copeland
The Federal Trade Commission says Facebook charged app developers for services it never provided. More than developers, it was the social giant itself that seems hurt the worst by the incident.
ReadWriteWeb
Facebook adds 'Expecting a Baby' event to Timeline | The Verge
By Jeff Blagdon
The Life Events feature of Facebook’s Timeline gives you a way to share big milestones with more impact than an ordinary post would garner. Now Facebook is announcing a new addition to the Life...
The Verge - All Posts
Facebook India Ambassador
By Amit
Convince your friends and family members to use Facebook on their mobile phones and you could be promoted as an Ambassador of Facebook India.
Digital Inspiration Technology Blog
Facebook gives developers new setting to publish more prominent ...
By Brittany Darwell
Facebook today announced an "explicit sharing" parameter for Open Graph apps, which will allow developers to publish more prominent News Feed stories on behalf of their users who want to share actions like taking photos, checking into ...
Inside Facebook
Prison Planet.com » The Facebook camera that can recognise you ...
By admin
MARK PRIGG UK Daily Mail Aug 14, 2012. Shoppers could soon be automatically recognised when they walk into a shop using a controversial new camera. Called Facedeals, the camera uses photos uploaded to Facebook to recognise ...
Prison Planet.com
Facebook okays marijuana reform ads | Death and Taxes
By DJ Pangburn
After banning marijuana reform ads, Facebook comes to its senses amidst censorship criticism.
Death and Taxes

Web4 new results for Facebook
 
Pages - Log In | Facebook
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work , study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, ...
www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=3923738297233
How a Minor Change by Facebook Resulted in a $92 Million ...
Can't beat them? Join them. One of the biggest newspaper companies in the world may be trying to get into the Facebook advertising game.
www.readwriteweb.com/.../how-a-minor-change-by-facebook...
FTC finalizes privacy settlement with Facebook - Yahoo! News
From Yahoo! News: The federal government has finalized its settlement with Facebook to resolve charges that the social network exposed details about users' ...
news.yahoo.com/ftc-finalizes-privacy-settlement-facebook-16...
Facebook Marketing in 2012 - Social Media Examiner
Facebook Success Summit 2012: Discover how to use Facebook to attract and engage quality customers and grow your business.
www.socialmediaexaminer.com/facebook-marketing-in-2012-...


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