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Germany Reopens Facebook Privacy Inquiry
New York Times
BERLIN — Data protection officials in Germany reopened an investigation into Facebook's facial recognition technology Wednesday, saying that the social networking giant was illegally compiling a huge database of members' photos without their consent.
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Facebook shares down nearly 50 percent. Set for another fall?
Christian Science Monitor (blog)
You bought Facebook (FB) stock during its May initial public offering at $38? Too bad. It closed at $20.38 Tuesday, its second-lowest close ever and a 46 percent drop in 12 weeks. Skip to next paragraph ...
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Christian Science Monitor (blog)
Inside Facebook's Push to Woo Big Advertisers
Wall Street Journal
At the time, many companies were using the site to promote brands on their own Facebook pages—but most were paying little to nothing to do so. While Facebook was starting to push more paid notices, it was unclear whether such ads actually led to ...
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Wall Street Journal
Deals of the Day: Facebook Courts Big Ad Players
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Companies & Industries. Inside Facebook's Push to Woo Advertisers: Facebook executive Carolyn Everson has set in motion plans to convince the world's biggest brands that ads on the social network can indeed work—and to quantify how so. [WSJ] ...
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Facebook Director Thiel Gets More Flexibility to Sell
Businessweek
Thiel, one of Facebook's earliest investors, converted more than 9 million shares to Class A from Class B, according to a document filed Aug. 10 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Thiel, a venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager whose ...
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UK Clears Facebook Acquisition of Instagram
PCWorld
The U.K Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has reviewed the anticipated acquisition of photo sharing service Instagram by Facebook and decided to approve the merger, an OFT spokesman said on Wednesday. Similar Articles: Facebook to Buy Instagram for $1 ...
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Facebook Integration Still Confusing? Check Out These Sample Apps
WebProNews
It seems like every app these days has some kind of Facebook connectivity. You can share status updates, high scores, open graph stories and much more through simple Facebook integration. For some, however, that integration isn't so easy. That's why ...
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As Facebook and other consumer Web stocks fall, venture capital firms ...
San Jose Mercury News
SAN FRANCISCO -- As consumer Internet shares plummet, venture capital firms find themselves fending off increasingly uneasy investors who are urging them to cash out after millions -- and in some cases, billions -- of dollars evaporate from holdings.
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Facebook Plans Third, Smaller Oregon Data Center
ABC News
Facebook Inc. has filed plans for a third data center in the central Oregon city Prineville, but it won't bring additional jobs. The social network company has a 334000-square-foot facility up and running in Prineville and a twin under construction ...
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On Facebook, any opinion can become a controversy
HeraldNet (blog)
Have you checked your Facebook account recently? If it is anything like mine, you are witnessing friends and relatives across the county exhibit extreme differences of opinion on questions like: What defines marriage? What makes a good American? What ...
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Facebook tries to get into TV game
The Olathenews
Facebook Inc. participated in a different kind of trial in London: whether it can extend its online popularity to the television airwaves and compete with Twitter Inc. for airtime. Facebook and Twitter each played up their partnerships with Comcast Corp.
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Wrapp using Facebook to target back-to-school shoppers
CNET
The company, which is shaking up e-commerce on Facebook, continues to grow, bringing some more big name-brands to attract new gifters, the company announced today. These brands include Dockers, Levis, Office Depot, Rovio's Angry Birds online shop, ...
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Facebook page: American-only hours at Costco near Canada
CNN
I dislike this. Share Flag as inappropriate. Loading... Alert icon. Sign in or sign up now! Alert icon. Loading... Published on Aug 14, 2012 by CNN. A Facebook page calls for American-only hours at a U.S. Costco near the Canadian border. CBC News reports.
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Court Case Spells Trouble for Frictionless Sharing of Videos on Facebook
Forbes
Video providers such as SocialCam, Hulu and Viddy have embraced Facebook's frictionless-sharing option allowing their Facebook users to automatically tell the world about all of the videos they watch. Video provider Netflix, meanwhile, has steered ...
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'Facebook Rapist' Says He Is Sorry
AllAfrica.com
Murderer and rapist Thabo Bester, dubbed the 'Facebook Rapist', today told the Western Cape High Court he would "deal" with whatever sentence was imposed on him. Bester, who is already serving a 50-year jail term for robbing and raping two women in ...
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Facebook to Zynga: Social games are growing, not shrinking
Los Angeles Times
The tiff between the world's largest social network and the company behind the "FarmVille" social game escalated this week. Facebook on Tuesday shot back at Zynga, saying the number of people playing games on the social network on a monthly basis ...
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Prison guards defriended by jail for Facebook friending a female inmate
New York Daily News
The Sheriff's office immediately interviewed the inmate and had her show them the friend requests in her Facebook account, said Weems. A retrieval of the inmate's phone revealed a text message from Powers. The inmate did not have access to her cell ...
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New York Daily News
Facebook, The 'Teenage Version Of Email'
Huffington Post
"When I was little, Facebook was the coolest thing to do. And I as got older, it got stupider and I have more commitments," said Guttmann, a rising junior in New York City. "On Tumblr, I feel like I can post all the stuff I'm interested in. On Facebook ...
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Facebook Outage: Facebook is Down for Some Users Today [Report]
BostInno (blog)
Reports are coming in this Wednesday morning that Facebook is currently experiencing a service disruption. Users first started reporting that Facebook is down on Twitter and other social networking sites around 11:00 pm EST. The outage has been ...
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Building Digital Media Brands on Facebook
StreamingMedia.com
At the recent Streaming Media East conference in New York City, a panel of experts convened to discuss how to create a Facebook strategy and how to inspire viewers to take action. Speaking for the media and entertainment world, Mara Winokur, senior ...
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3 Best Practices for Facebook Sponsored Stories
Huffington Post (blog)
Standard Facebook Ads display generic brand messages and offers, like "Go to Starbucks for 20 percent Off!" As we reported last month, these were often ineffective and driving high levels of engagement, because there was a mismatch between the purpose ...
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Facebook, Apple, Groupon, Cisco: Tech Premarket
TheStreet.com
Thursday marks the social networking giant's first "lock up" expiration whereby Facebook's early investors and some directors become eligible to sell their stock following the company's IPO earlier this year. See if (FB) is in our portfolio. Shares of ...
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Do Facebook ads work?
Wall Street Journal
Facebook ads alone, like television commercials, may inspire thought about a particular product or type of products, but will never convince me of making a purchase. If interested, I will research the market for best value. What concerns me is Facebook ...
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Targeted Facebook ads make people want to unfriend candidates
Philadelphia Inquirer
Even if you're not on Facebook, there's so much data about you that's available to marketers - where you live, what you buy, whether you vote, your political registration, your income, charitable donations, ethnicity, etc. - that you might get tailored ...
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Alabama Wins Facebook National Title
SB Nation (blog)
According to the report, "a member of the coaching staff accepted a Facebook friend request prior to the permissible date" for two potential recruits. Alabama's self-penalty was to "defriend" the recruits, rules education for the coach, and no ...
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Facebook: We are working on building a team in India
Times of India
It is Erik Johnson's fourth visit to India in the last nine months and the head of sales for Asia-Pacific at Facebook describes it as among the fastest growing and the most exciting market for the social networking website. In an interview with TOI ...
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Facebook insiders can sell stock as 'lock-up' ends
The Associated Press
(AP) — Facebook's early investors and a handful of directors will 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, one that will give many ...
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Facebook Is Suing Mitel Based on AOL Patents It Only Just Acquired From ...
Gizmodo
Interestingly, both those patents were acquired by Facebook for $550 million in April 2012, about a month after Mitel filed the initial lawsuit. The seller was Microsoft, but the Redmond software giant had just acquired the patents from AOL in a ...
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Facebook Banned: 9 Ways To Get Kicked Off The Social Network
Huffington Post
This mommy controversy has long plagued Facebook, as the company states there can be no nudity in its <a href="https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms" target="_hplink">terms of service</a>. But parents argue there's a line between "inappropriate" and ...
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Blogs13 new results for Facebook
 
Daily Report: Germans Reopen Facebook Privacy Inquiry - NYTimes ...
By By THE NEW YORK TIMES
German data protection officials have reopened an investigation into Facebook's use of facial recognition software. It could lead to fines against the social network giant. Read more...
NYT Bits
Facebook Experiments With Another Mobile Answer - AllThingsD
By Peter Kafka
Facebook used to require a social connection before you could see an ad on your phone. A new test could do away with that idea.
AllThingsD
Facebook Tries Letting Pages Show News Feed Ads To Non-Fans ...
By Josh Constine
Facebook seems determined to impress investors, as today it begins testing an aggressive web and mobile news feed ad unit that lets Pages pay to show their posts to people who didn't subscribe to them. Previously, Pages could only reach ...
TechCrunch
Claptrap Photobomb App available on Facebook | Joystiq
By Alexander Sliwinski
We all know Claptraps like to dance. It is known, Khaleesi. So, when a bunch of the robots showed up at the club across the street from our hotel during Gamescom, we couldn't help but snap a pic. For those who aren't so lucky, there is now an ...
Joystiq
Apps Bet On Facebook, Facebook Bets Back | Fast Company
By Sarah Kessler
App developers seeking social momentum often take a risk by building on Facebook's ever-changing platform. Now, somewhat ironically, Facebook seems to be betting right back.The social network is establishing itself as a hub for app ...
Fast Company
Facebook tests page post ads in News Feed to reach users beyond ...
By Brittany Darwell
Facebook is testing a News Feed version of its page post ad format, which will allow advertisers to reach a broader audience than their own fans and friends of fans, a company spokesperson tells us. This ad unit will look just like a post from a ...
Inside Facebook
Facebook Banned: 9 Ways To Get Kicked Off The Social Network
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Want to be a productive individual again? Need to get kicked off Facebook?
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Surprise! Soros Has Big Stake in Facebook | TheBlaze.com
By Becket Adams
Currency speculator and billionaire philanthropist George Soros' most recent 13-F report reveals two very intriguing facts: 1) He has abandoned his stake in major financials 2) He holds thousands of shares of Facebook stock "Soros ...
TheBlaze.com - Stories
'Friends' can share your Facebook profile with the government, court ...
By Jeff John Roberts
Federal investigators viewed the Facebook profile of an alleged gangster in the Bronx by asking his informant "friend" to show it to them. A judge ruled this was not unconstitutional because Facebook users can't control what other people do ...
GigaOM
Facebook inches closer to straight-up advertising with new ...
By Jeff Blagdon
The day is upon us: Facebook is testing the idea of selling sponsored posts directly on users&rsquo; mobile and desktop News Feeds, reports Adweek. Currently, users either need to be a fan of a...
The Verge - All Posts
Facebook to build a 3rd, small data center in Oregon — Cleantech ...
By Katie Fehrenbacher
Like Apple is doing in North Carolina, Facebook is adding on a smaller data center at its facility in Prineville, Oregon. The new building won't add jobs to the region, but represents Facebook's rapid infrastructure build out.
GigaOM
Facebook Bull: Stock Going Lower Before It Goes Higher | Daily ...
From the blog Daily Ticker: Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! Tuesday was a big day for Facebook (FB) as 13F filings showed hedge fund heavyweights Moore Capital, George Soros, Steven A. Cohen's SAC Capital and Tiger ...
Yahoo! Finance: The Daily Ticker
15 percent of Facebook users download from the App Center ...
By Meghan Kelly
Facebook announced today that over 150 million people are using its App Center. The social network also grabbed 30 million more gamers in the last year, bringing its gaming community to 235 million.
VentureBeat

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Soros Reveals Stake In Facebook - Business Insider
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FTC finalizes privacy settlement with Facebook - Yahoo! Finance
From Yahoo! Finance: The Federal Trade Commission voted Friday to finalize its settlement with Facebook, resolving charges that the social network exposed ...
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