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'Rogue' MLB employee coats Facebook with insanity
Fox News
The reality is far more pedestrian: A Facebook spokesman told sports blog Deadspin that a single 'rogue' MLB staff member posted the sometimes hilarious, sometimes offensive comments as a stunt never intended to go public. "Several Pages made ...
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San Francisco Giants Facebook page hacked with anti-Chik-Fil-A comment ...
San Jose Mercury News
A rogue Major League Baseball Facebook page administrator posted offensive status updates on the pages of nine teams Thursday, including the San Francisco Giants, according to the social network. On Thursday afternoon, a status update from the official ...
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Facebook Shares Having Best Day Yet
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Facebook shares are up more than 8%, on pace for the biggest daily gain in the social networking company's brief history as a publicly traded company. Last night LinkedIn posted robust quarterly results and raised its full-year outlook. That stock is up more ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Facebook shares now worth about half their IPO price
Los Angeles Times
The slide began in earnest after the disappointing earnings report last week in which Facebook revealed that costs went up dramatically in the second quarter, far more than what analysts were expecting. Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said ...
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Los Angeles Times
'Rogue administrator' alters several MLB Facebook pages, posts Derek Jeter sex ...
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
Running social media for a major-league team got a little more complicated on Thursday when the official Facebook pages for several teams fell victim to what Facebook is calling a 'rogue administrator' in search of a laugh. The New York Yankees were the ...
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Yahoo! Sports (blog)
83 million Facebook accounts may be fakes
Fox News
Facebook's share price has fallen below $20 for the first time, as it was revealed around 8 percent of its accounts could be sketchy. The social-networking website is now worth almost half what it was when it floated on the Nasdaq in May. It has lost nearly $50 ...
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Yanks, Cubs, other MLB team Facebook pages hacked
Yahoo! Sports
MLB released a statement saying ''for a brief moment today, a few MLB Club Facebook accounts were hacked and inappropriate material was briefly on display.'' The league also said it is working with Facebook and legal authorities to determine what ...
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Facebook Baseball Pages Hacked, Naughty Messages Posted
PCWorld
"For a brief moment today, a few MLB Club Facebook accounts were hacked and inappropriate material was briefly on display from those Clubs' pages on Facebook. MLB Advanced Media oversees these Facebook pages on behalf of the Clubs and regrets ...
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Facebook investigating MLB hacking
Newsday (blog)
About 6 million Yankee fans received some distressing news via Facebook on Thursday afternoon -- Derek Jeter will be out for the rest of the season, a message on the team's official Facebook page said. Most people probably figured out it was a joke by ...
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Newsday (blog)
It's Not Enron, It's Facebook
TheStreet.com
As the stock continues to plummet from what was a $38 egregiously overhyped IPO price to where it sits under $20, investors have started to wonder if the company is the "house of cards" that Enron was discovered to be. Enron ultimately went to zero. Where ...
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Facebook Troubles: Low Earnings, Fake Users, & Click Fraud
Search Engine Journal
Although Facebook recently announced that the number of users grew to 955 million in the second quarter, even this news is accompanied with negative news. Yesterday, company filings showed investors that Facebook has admitted that as many as 83 ...
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As Facebook shares sag, LinkedIn stock soars
CNET
Professional network LinkedIn is making some investors on Wall Street awfully happy. In premarket trading this morning, LinkedIn shares were up over 10 percent to $102.90. In early morning trading, the company's stock has risen to $106.83, helping it to ...
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India spurs Facebook growth; 83 mn fake users worldwide
New York Daily News
In an updated regulatory filing released Wednesday, Facebook said users in Brazil, India, and Indonesia represented key sources of growth in the second quarter of 2012 leading to an increase of 29 percent in its monthly active users over 2011. The company ...
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MLB Facebook Pages Hit by Hackers
PC Magazine
In a note on the Yankees Facebook page, the team said "we apologize for anything inappropriate that appeared on the Yankees' Facebook page. The Yankees' Facebook page is controlled by Major League Baseball Advanced Media. They are looking into ...
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Prankster hits MLB teams' Facebook pages
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
... working to improve our systems to better protect our users and their data. But according to Deadspin, the posts were not removed by Facebook, they were pulled by the employee who did the deed — who apparently never intended for the posts to go public.
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Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)
Facebook Detectives Can?t Corroborate Claims of Clicky Robots
Wired News
Four days ago, a music e-commerce site on Long Island ignited a minor controversy by claiming 80 percent of the clicks on its Facebook advertising came from bots. But Facebook says its investigators haven't received any evidence for those claims, despite ...
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Wired News
Why Facebook Is Too Big to Succeed
Minyanville.com
As LinkedIn was preparing to report its consensus-beating results, Facebook was going public with government filings which revealed that 83 million of its accounts, or about 8.7%, are "illegitimate." They're duplicates, or profiles of people's pets, or businesses ...
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Facebook shares dive as deadline for insider sales nears
Reuters
Has lost almost half its value since May 18 IPO at $38. * Slide persists after departures, growth doubts, outlook uncertainty. (Recasts, adds comments from employees and fund managers). By Alexei Oreskovic. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Facebook ...
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Yesterday's Flood Of Berserk Baseball Team Facebook Posts Were Made By A ...
Deadspin
Yesterday's Flood Of Berserk Baseball Team Facebook Posts Were Made By A Rogue MLB Employee We thought yesterday's series of wacky Facebook posts appearing on MLB team pages was the work of a very skilled—and very quick—hacker. As it turns ...
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Teams' Facebook pages hacked
ESPN
NEW YORK -- The Facebook pages of the New York Yankees, Chicago Cubs and several other Major League Baseball clubs have been restored after briefly being hacked. On the Yankees official news feed Thursday, there was a false item about Derek Jeter ...
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Yankees Facebook page hacked, says Jeter to undergo gender change
Examiner.com
The New York Yankees' Facebook page was hacked Thursday. The anonymous hacker wrote the star shortstop would miss the rest of the season. What was the reason for Derek Jeter's supposed absence from the team? He was to undergo a sex change, ...
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Examiner.com
Facebook pages for Miami Marlins, other MLB teams hacked
MiamiHerald.com
ATLANTA -- The Facebook pages of several major-league teams were hacked into Thursday, and the Marlins were among the victims. For a brief moment, the Marlins Facebook page, which has 278711 likes, promised the first 10000 fans 18 and under "a free ...
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MLB looking into Facebook hackings
FOXSports.com
On the Yankees official news feed Thursday, there was a false item about Derek Jeter undergoing a sex change. The Cubs' page contained an expletive directed at longtime Cubs fan and actor Bill Murray. The posts were removed shortly after appearing.
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Facebook: Fake and duplicate profiles abound, millions created for purposes like ...
WPTV
(CNN) -- If you're using a fake name on your Facebook account, maintaining a page for your beloved pet or have a second profile you use just for logging in to other sites, you have one of the 83.09 million fake accounts Facebook wants to disable.
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WPTV
California feeling fallout from Facebook's stock plunge
Phys.Org
But Facebook's stock price dipped below $20 a share for the first time Thursday before closing at $20.04, the latest in a shocking fall from the company's initial stock price of $38 in May. At the same time, the Legislative Analyst's Office reported this week that a ...
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Why Fidelity Dumping Facebook Is Such A Disastrous Signal For The Market
Seeking Alpha
As reported by Joe Light in the WSJ yesterday, Fidelity is dumping Facebook (FB) shares left and right. If this were a singular event that didn't have bearing on anything outside of Facebook's share price, which it is obviously disastrous for, it really wouldn't be ...
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How Low Can Facebook Go?
E-Commerce Times
How Low Can Facebook Go? How Low Can Facebook Go? By Erika Morphy E-Commerce Times 08/03/12 9:07 AM PT. Facebook keeps setting records on Wall Street, but not the kind the company is aiming for. On Thursday, its share price sank beneath $20 ...
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Facebook 'sponsored stories' privacy proposal: Farcical fiasco
Computerworld (blog)
Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) is again under fire over its privacy-preventing 'sponsored stories' advertising scheme. This time, by a federal judge: A class-action settlement is being criticized because it doesn't actually compensate any of the victims and it doesn't ...
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Computerworld (blog)
Jeter targeted in gender bending Facebook hack
GlobalPost (blog)
The Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Miami Marlins, New York Yankees, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Giants and Washington Nationals all posted embarrassing messages on Facebook, including plans by Derek Jeter to undergo a sex change ...
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Blogs14 new results for Facebook
 
Dear Facebook, It Could Really Be This Simple | TechCrunch
By Alexia Tsotsis
Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four ...
TechCrunch
What's the Story on the New Facebook Stories? - Search Engine ...
By Miranda Miller
Facebook Stories is a new project that compiles a selection of user-generated stories from Facebook and publishes insights on the topic of the month. Mainly, it's a way to generate some uber-happy, heartwarming content in the wake of some ...
Search Engine Watch - Latest
Is Facebook Stories the next Patch, Flipboard, HuffPo or something ...
By Laura Hazard Owen
Facebook Stories, a new original content site that will focus on a different theme each month, is intended to highlight Facebook users' stories. But with a former Time magazine reporter overseeing an editorial team, does the company have ...
paidContent
Can Facebook Capitalize on the Social Discovery Trend?
By Dave Copeland
As Facebook released its earnings last week, pundits focused on the company's troubled mobile strategy. But Facebook may face an even bigger problem: The social networking behemoth must compete with the nimble startups poised to ...
ReadWriteWeb
As Facebook loses value, so does Instagram - The Term Sheet ...
By Dan Primack
Staring way up at $1 billion. FORTUNE -- "You never know, it could be the next Instagram." I have heard that line, or some variation thereof, from venture capitalists more than a dozen times since Facebook (FB) agreed to acquire the.
Fortune Finance: Hedge Funds,...
Facebook Stories Site Launched
By Frank Reed
As Facebook continues its quest to match revenue expectations that the world has for it, the company continues to roll ...
Marketing Pilgrim - Internet...
Facebook Stories launched
By Martin Brinkmann
The idea behind Facebook Stories is simple: Some of the 950 or so million Facebook users, minus the ten percent fake accounts, must have used the site for.
gHacks Technology News | Latest...
Facebook adds Sponsored Stories to 'Pages You May Like' mobile ...
By Brittany Darwell
Facebook appears to be testing Page-Like Sponsored Stories in a mobile module called "Pages You May Like." With this new module, seen right, the social network is showing some users two Sponsored Stories at a time. This increases ...
Inside Facebook
Prankster Commits Errors on MLB Facebook Pages - AllThingsD
By Mike Isaac
Strange, offensive status updates are showing up all across the MLB teams' sites.
AllThingsD
Here Are The Facebook Insiders Who Dumped Stock Just Before It ...
By Henry Blodget
And now that Facebook's stock has been cut in half since its May IPO, it's time to compliment the clever folks who sold when everyone else was convinced that playing the Facebook IPO was pretty much a sure thing. At the time, of course, ...
SAI
Facebook Stories launched to celebrate extraordinary stories from ...
By Gene Ryan Briones
To celebrate the impact of Facebook on our day to day lives, the social network is introducing a new site dedicated to "sharing the extraordinary, quirky and thought-provoking stories and ideas" from more than 950 million people around the ...
Ubergizmo
Facebook hackers pwn baseball team pages, claim NY Yankees ...
By Graham Cluley
A host of Facebook accounts belonging to US baseball teams were hacked yesterday, and defaced with messages in dubious taste, including one which claimed that New York Yankees captain Derek Jeter was undergoing a sex change.
Naked Security
Facebook estimates 83 million profiles are fake | The Raw Story
By Mark Sweney, The Guardian
Facebook has more than 83 million fake profiles, including millions created for users' pets and a large number of accounts the company deems "undesirable", it has admitted. The figure emerged in Facebook's first quarterly report to US ...
The Raw Story
Facebook has 83 million credibility problems, so what? | Digital Trends
By Geoff Duncan
Facebook says it thinks 83 million profiles are "fake." Is that a credit to Facebook's policing, or an erosion of Facebook's credibility?

Web2 new results for Facebook
 
Liveblog: Facebook's first ever earnings call today | Ars Technica
Curious about Facebook's post-IPO finances? Our earnings-call liveblog is on.
arstechnica.com/.../liveblog-facebooks-first-ever-earnings-call-...
Facebook's stock tumbles after 1st public quarter - Yahoo! Finance
From Yahoo! Finance: Facebook's first earnings report as a public company had solid numbers, but in the end it landed with a thud — much like its rocky initial ...
finance.yahoo.com/.../facebooks-stock-tumbles-1st-public-qua...


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