Saturday, August 4, 2012

Google Alert - Facebook

News29 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook: About 83 million accounts are fake
Detroit Free Press
In March, Facebook stated in an SEC filing that it estimated about 5% to 6% of user accounts were fake, which at the time meant that between 42 million to over 50 million user profiles were not real. "While we recently refined and improved our methodology for ...
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Facebook's Summer of Fail
PCWorld
Facebook's greatest asset is its user base, which has historically grown at a breakneck pace and which has been assumed to be composed of rabid Facebook fans who love the platform. A large, growing and enthusiastic user community is the entire basis for ...
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Facebook, MySpace social media musings used in court cases
USA TODAY
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Hours after her involvement in a fatal accident that killed a popular high school teacher, Megan Merkel took to her Facebook page to answer the "haters" who were holding her responsible. Megan Merkel is brought into the Penfield (N.Y.) ...
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USA TODAY
Facebook investors: Top 5 reasons your loss is your fault
Examiner.com
Up to this point we've focused on the things that Facebook's been doing wrong: Hyping up their number of users, violating user privacy rights, and pandering to investors and advertisers. But it's time to start spreading some of the blame. Investors are just as ...
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Examiner.com
Facebook Admits to 83 Million Fake Users
HispanicBusiness.com
Nearly 9 percent of all Facebook profiles on the site are fake, a figure that has risen since Facebook's troubled public debut in May, when it estimated "false" profiles accounted for 5 percent to 6 percent of its users, the New York Post reported Friday.
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HispanicBusiness.com
Nasdaq: Facebook IPO Lawsuit Expenses Will Be 'Significant'
Huffington Post
NEW YORK, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Nasdaq OMX Group Inc expects to incur costs well above the $62 million it has set aside to pay back firms harmed by the glitch-ridden Facebook IPO, as it fights lawsuits and updates its systems, it said in a regulatory filing on ...
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Is Facebook cracking down on bots and spammers?
Bizjournals.com (blog)
Facebook news has been dominated this week by reports about the company's struggles with bots and spammers. Is the company now fighting back more than usual? The Silicon Valley Business Journal and our sister publications across the country have ...
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Facebook Hints at a Secret Cure for Facebook Shame, Reports Say
Wired News
Facebook doesn't offer many fixes for embarrassing posts. Klutzes who insert typos into their posts, make inadvertent double entendres, or misapply words they don't understand must either leave their flawed messages intact or take the drastic step of nuking ...
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Wired News
MLB Facebook Accounts Hacked; Jeter Not Really Having a Sex Change
ABC News (blog)
"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 the false post in cooperation with Facebook," the ...
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ABC News (blog)
Why Wall Street Likes LinkedIn More Than Facebook
Forbes
LinkedIn is no Silicon Valley darling when it comes to drawing eyeballs, press attention, or inspiring Hollywood movies. There was no drama or intrigue around its founding; it is one-sixth the size of Facebook and grew far slower, and it is run by a CEO in his ...
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Facebook Shares Have Good, Not Record, Day
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The day's activity underscores the volatility that has taken place in Facebook shares since the company went public at $38 a share in May. Facebook's rally comes one day after shares hit new lows, briefly dipping below $20. Prior to Friday's session, the stock ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Cowboys hit 5M Facebook likes, coach not 1 of them
Fox News
OXNARD, Calif. – Dallas Cowboys fans on Facebook, and there are a lot of them, won't be getting a friend request from coach Jason Garrett. The Cowboys say the team's Facebook page surpassed 5 million likes this week. They are the first NFL team to hit ...
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Facebook to close 83 million accounts including pages for dogs and babies
Examiner.com
Facebook is a serious business, and there are rules to follow. That's why the social media giant is getting ready to close more than 83 million accounts. These accounts are fakes, frauds, imposters and spammers. They are also Facebook accounts that users ...
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Illinois Bans Facebook, Social Network Password Requests by Employers
eWeek
The issue rose to prominence when news reports surfaced of companies asking for Facebook passwords in order to access information about prospective employees. The controversy prompted Erin Egan, Facebook chief privacy officer, to issue a statement in ...
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Facebook's future: 'Like' it or not, it keeps us connected
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)
The parallels with Facebook are irresistible: It's a cool way to shout out to friends, family and strangers, and a movie, "The Social Network," cemented the legend of how the company was created by Mark Zuckerberg. And like that earlier fad, public interest ...
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The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog)
Facebook Says They Can't Find Limited Run's Click Bot Evidence
RedOrbit
Earlier this week, the story of a startup company who discovered the majority of their ad clicks on Facebook came from bots made big news on the web. In fact, the story even took on a bit of a life of its own, something that Limited Run's co-founder Tim Mango ...
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RedOrbit
Facebook, MySpace musings used in court
Tucson Citizen
Hours after her involvement in a fatal accident that killed a popular high school teacher, Megan Merkel took to her Facebook page to answer the "haters" who were holding her responsible. In a profanity-laced posting, she wrote — and later confirmed it was ...
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Cowboys hit 5M Facebook likes; Jason Garrett not one of them
USA TODAY
Comments. OXNARD, Calif. (AP) – Dallas Cowboys fans on Facebook -- and there are a lot of them -- won't be getting a friend request from coach Jason Garrett. Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo (9) talks with coach Jason Garrett during training camp drills ...
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USA TODAY
Facebook cracking down on fake profiles
KFVS
In an updated filing this week, Facebook says as they calculate their average revenue per user, they realize there are inherent problems in finding an accurate number since many Facebook users have duplicate or fake accounts. So Facebook says they want ...
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Let's call Facebook what it really is
InfoWorld (blog)
Just when Zuckerberg et al thought it couldn't get any worse, it gets worse. Ever since its IPO in May, Facebook's stock price has been circling the big drain like a beloved family goldfish. (What was his name again?) Zucky's personal wealth dropped to a mere ...
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Facebook user count at 955 mn, 84 per cent jump in India users in a year
Business Today
Facebook said it faced significant competition in almost every aspect of its business, including from companies such as Google, Microsoft and Twitter with Orkut owned by Google providing strong competition in Brazil and India. Duplicate accounts make up 4.8 ...
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Business Today
Judge Questions $10 Million Facebook Sponsored Stories Settlement
Mashable
When you "like" something on Facebook, your name and face can be used in sponsored stories. But that will change, thanks to a court ruling earlier this year. But the settlement attached to that ruling was struck down by U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg on ...
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Electronic Arts sues Zynga, says it copied "Sims" game
Reuters
EA and Zynga square off over "The Ville" on Facebook. * Suit says social gaming firm mimicked "The Sims Social". * Zynga defends own game, says will fight EA lawsuit. By Malathi Nayak and Gerry Shih. SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Video game ...
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Facebook looks to disable 83 million fake accounts
ConnectAmarillo.com powered by KVII
Of the 955 million monthly active Facebook accounts worldwide, about eighty percent are actually fakes or duplicate accounts. The 83 million accounts are those people have made for their babies, pets, or "alter-ego's" and Facebook wants to disable them.
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Facebook's stock comes back to life, at least for today
CNET (blog)
It's certainly too early to call a bottom, but shares of Facebook rallied today -- jumping more than five percent to close just above $21 a share. It was the first up day since July 24th. Today's action might bring relief, even hope, for pretty much anyone who ...
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Cowboys notebook: Garrett isn't about to join Facebook crowd
Ventura County Star
Garrett then brought up how 90-year-old actress Betty White went on "Saturday Night Live" following a Facebook campaign and talked about not knowing anything about Facebook during her monologue. "Now I'm not as old as Betty White, but she didn't know ...
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Facebook Allows Brands to Use Your 'It's Complicated' Status Against You
Village Voice (blog)
It seems like almost every day, we read a story that makes the social network come off as that much creepier and then proceed to open a new tab on our browser, pull up Facebook and scan our notifications. And this one, in regards to marketing, it is a real ...
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New problems plague Facebook as stock slide continues
Examiner.com
A Slashgear article reports charges that Facebook is not accurate in reporting advertising clicks to advertisers. Music platform start-up Limited Run made claims this week that its own analytics suggested the bulk of reported Facebook advert action was fake.
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Examiner.com
Facebook Ads: Optimize for Awareness, Not Direct Sales
Huffington Post
The Challenge: Facebook Ads is not proven to be an effective direct sales medium. While this has led to shareholder frustration, advertisers should ignore the focus on sales and optimize for engagement and awareness. When it comes to Facebook Ads, ...
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Blogs14 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook Doubles Release Speed, Will Roll New Code Twice A ...
By Billy Gallagher
Billy Gallagher is a writer for TechCrunch. He is also the president and editor in chief of The Stanford Daily. Billy previously worked at The Stanford Daily for two volumes as a managing editor of news. He has also worked in sports and staff ...
TechCrunch
xrampage16's sandbox: Facebook Share Button | drupal.org
By xrampage16
Recently, Facebook has decided to deprecate the Facebook Share button, which has been used by a wide variety of sites that I work on to help push content to Facebook for purposes of increasing traffic. The Facebook Like button has taken its ...
drupal.org - Modules
Facebook Now Lets Brands Target Posts By Age, Gender
By Todd Wasserman
Facebook Page admins can now target posts by age and gender.
Mashable » Social Media
Facebook product manager teases possibility of editing posts | The ...
By Dieter Bohn
Facebook recently rolled out the ability to edit comments on posting, which naturally led to an obvious question: what about editing the posts themselves? A product manager for the company, Vadim...
The Verge - All Posts
Facebook roundup: stock price, Sponsored Stories, Timeline, carbon ...
By Brittany Darwell
Facebook stock picks up slightly after all-time low – Facebook shares closed at $21.09 today, up slightly from their all-time low earlier this week of $19.82. The stock has taken a beating since its second quarter earnings report and it was hit ...
Inside Facebook
The double-down: Facebook will now update its code twice every ...
By Jolie O'Dell
Facebook's famous "hacker way" work ethic involves shipping out new features and new code at a fast and furious pace. Well, the pace just doubled. Now, Facebook will update its code twice daily as part of a renewed commitment to "ship ...
VentureBeat
What is the Trade in Facebook? | Benzinga
By Scott Rubin
Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) shares were volatile on Friday, a day after the stock hit a new all-time low of $19.82. Traders played a bounce in the name, as the stock surged around 6 percent. However, in the final hour of trade, FB was well off of its ...
Benzinga - Stock Market Quotes,...
Here's The Deck Facebook Showed Wall Street Before Its Stock ...
By Jim Edwards
Facebook now has nearly 1 billion users, most whom are NOT American. About half of them use Facebook every day. A majority of them access the site on mobile devices—which is interesting because Facebook Facebook is an ad business.
Business Insider
'Infinity Challenge' cast's Facebook accounts revealed to be fake
By elliefilet
He posted to Twitter on the 2nd, "The Facebook accounts of the 'Infinity Challenge' family including [Yoo Jae Suk] hyung's are fake! Don't be fooled. Also, for those of you who are impersonating our identities, please delete the accounts." ...
allkpop
Will Zuckerberg's Decline as a Billionaire Impact Facebook? | Social ...
By Jim Vacey
Recently reported on Bloomberg News, Mark Zuckerberg has been brought down a few notches on the Billionaire social ladder. While his fortune is still an impressive $10.2 billion, Zuckerberg has fallen behind James Goodnight, the ...
Social Media Today - The world's...
How Facebook got Myspaced | Death and Taxes
By Alex Moore
If you haven't noticed, it's been a very bad couple weeks for Facebook. Whether you're paying attention to financial news and watching the stock's one-way slide, now down more than 40% where it opened, or just looking at Facebook itself, ...
Death and Taxes
Facebook doubles release speed of site updates | Ubergizmo
By Gene Ryan Briones
Facebook is showing no signs of decline following its decision to go public this year. This week alone, we witnessed a lot of things going on in the platform – Facebook Stories, McAfee Social Protection for Facebook, the global expansion [...]
Ubergizmo
At half-price, Facebook still faces doubts | The Raw Story
By Agence France-Presse
Facebook shares have lost nearly half their value since a highly-touted public offering in May, but it's still not a bargain for some. Facebook in the past week dropped below $20 a share for the first time since its $38 offering price in May.
The Raw Story
Lacoste Gets 10 Million Facebook Likes
By Justin Fenner
Congratulations are in order for Lacoste, which just became one of a handful of fashion brands whose Facebook profiles have received over 10 million "likes." But what about the other brands in this pantheon of likability, and where do other.
fashionologie

Web2 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook - Spigit
"SpigitEngage for Facebook will have a significant role in the practice of social creation, as it strikes an attractive balance between engagement and economic ...
www.spigit.com/products/spigitengage/facebook/
Facebook's first earnings report since going public will be crucial ...
After flopping on Wall Street, Facebook Inc. will get a chance this week to win over investors when it reports quarterly earnings for the first time as a public ...
articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/25/.../la-fi-facebook-20120725


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