Saturday, September 1, 2012

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Facebook cracks down on bogus 'Likes'
Chicago Tribune
Facebook Inc. is weeding out fake "Likes" on its social network that are being caused by spammers, malware and black marketeers as it strives to maintain credibility as an advertising platform. Facebook said the number of Likes, or endorsements by ...
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Browser Plug-in and Website Warn About Data Harvesting by Facebook Apps
PCWorld
The App Advisor Security Network website has profiles on more than 500,000 third-party Facebook applications that describe the user data they collect, what actions they can take and whether they are considered unsafe. The application profiles also ...
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Facebook Plays It Safe
New York Times (blog)
I read with some amusement the news that Facebook had brought on the architect Frank Gehry to design an expansion to its Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters. Or more specifically, a new warehouse for engineers at its Menlo Park headquarters. Plans for the ...
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New York Times (blog)
Facebook addicts are more likely to be women - and it's all down to their genes
Daily Mail
Dr. Montag suggested that the popularity of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter among women could be behind the trend, but added that further studies would be needed. 'The sex-specific genetic finding may result from a specific ...
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Daily Mail
A More Complicated Facebook Option
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Citigroup just filed a supplement with the Securities and Exchange Commission saying it had created $1.1 million of auto-callable notes linked to the price of Facebook stock. Citi says it issued the notes today. The notes work like this: You pay $1,000 ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Biz Break: Facebook sinks to record low, but Wall Street ends month on high note
San Jose Mercury News
Today: Facebook shares plunge as revenue projections, price targets get slashed, and Zynga's woes continue. Plus, Bernanke's encouraging words boost Wall Street, and HP gets back into the tablet game. Facebook hits new low, but should investors have ...
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Greylock Follows Facebook Win With Business Software IPOs
Bloomberg
Greylock Partners has gained accolades – and bundles of money — in the past 15 months from early bets on consumer Internet brands Facebook, LinkedIn and Pandora. Now, it's reaping rewards from investments in the lesser known but still lucrative arena ...
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Bloomberg
Facebook to Allow Ad Targeting Based on Phone Numbers, Email
PC Magazine
Facebook is gearing up to let advertisers find prospects based on personal information like email addresses, user IDs, and phone numbers. InsideFacebook first reported the new option after some users temporarily saw it go live. Facebook confirmed to ...
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Google, Facebook and Twitter's Friendly Rivalry at GOP2012
Mashable
Twitter and Facebook, meanwhile, played second fiddle. However, they still made quite the impact. The two shared a co-working space — perhaps in an effort to join forces against rival Google — that became a can't-miss destination for reporters and ...
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Analyze your Facebook data with new Wolfram Alpha tool
CNN
(CNN) -- The scattered bits of information you upload to Facebook might not seem interesting on their own -- a photo of a baby here, a happy birthday greeting there. But taken as a whole, your Facebook profile is a trove of data that can be analyzed to ...
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Facebook shares hit record low price
Detroit Free Press
Facebook may post $5.04 billion in sales this year, EMarketer estimated, down from the market researcher's earlier projection for $6.1 billion as the biggest social network struggles to sustain advertising growth. Energy. 77% of gas-processing capacity ...
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Facebook shares down as BofA-Merrill cuts target
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Facebook Inc. (US:fb) slumped more than 3% to $18.45 on Friday morning -- setting a new low -- after Bank of America/Merrill Lynch slashed its price target on the social network to $23 from $35. Analyst Justin ...
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Facebook to allow apps to send notifications directly to users
Computerworld
IDG News Service - Facebook is tweaking its development platform to allow third-party applications to communicate directly with their users by sending notifications to their profiles. A new Notifications API (application programming interface), now in ...
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Facebook plea helps find dog
New York Daily News
When all ALL else failed, Facebook came to the rescue of a robust Italian mastiff abandoned in White Plains. For nearly eight months, the 105-pound Cane Corso eluded rescuers and skittish neighbors that spied the hungry dog foraging through the woods ...
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New York Daily News
Public pension funds stung by Facebook's falling stock
Los Angeles Times
Public employee retirement funds from around the country took part in the Menlo Park, Calif., social networking juggernaut's May 18 initial public offering and plowed millions of dollars into Facebook stock before its value plunged. Facebook shares ...
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Los Angeles Times
The Facebook Deficit
Wall Street Journal
Governor Jerry Brown's wing-and-a-prayer budget in January predicted the Facebook IPO would help to close the Golden State's $9 billion deficit with a $2.5 billion tax windfall over five years. Mr. Zuckerberg alone was counted on to pay nearly $1 ...
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Facebook shares steady in after-hours trading
MarketWatch
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Shares of Facebook Inc. were largely steady Friday evening after a drop in the regular session left them at a record low. Late-traded Facebook shares (US:FB) shed 2 cents to trade at $18.04 in active volume. They finished ...
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Troubled Perry High School shooter exhibited warning signs on Facebook
CBS News
(CBS/AP) PERRY HALL, Md - Robert Gladden Jr., the 15-year-old accused of opening fire on a student on the first day of school at Perry High School, lists Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the two teenagers behind the Columbine massacre, as inspiration son ...
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CBS News
Facebook price target cut to $15 by BMO Capital
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Facecbook Inc. (US:fb) saw its price target slashed to $15 from $25 by BMO Capital on Friday morning. The stock is currently trading down 3.4% to a new low of $18.44, as Bank of America-Merrill Lynch also drastically cut ...
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Report: Chatwing Introduces Facebook Chat Box for Active Castleville Players ...
Equities.com
Castleville, a kingdom-building game, is one of the hottest games in Facebook today. Across the social networking site, Castleville players are exchanging comments and inviting each other as 'game neighbors.' Seeing the potential of Castleville niche ...
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Like Baking? Baseball? Twitter Has an Ad for You
Wired (blog)
When Twitter launched in 2006, Facebook was just starting to experiment with advertising on its social network. Advertising, or any business model, wasn't even part of the equation for Twitter. Six years, and several iterations later, and now Twitter's ...
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we won't see another Facebook
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Chances are it will be another decade before we see a new technology company conduct an initial public offering the size of Facebook Inc.'s. That's a good thing for retail tech investors, and the reasons only partially ...
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Google+ Is Going After Yammer To Flank Facebook
TechCrunch
Editor's note: Rob May is the CEO and co-founder of Backupify, the leading provider of backup and recovery solutions for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. Google recently announced that it will begin offering corporate control features for its ...
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Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) Had Two Bad News This Week, Shares slumped 7%
The Markets Are Open (blog)
Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz, who once shared a room with Mark Zuckerberg at Harvard University, has been offloading about 150,000 shares on a daily basis since August 19, when the locked-in shares became eligible for sale. According o ...
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Facebook's slumping stock sags to another new low
Businessweek
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Facebook stock sank another 5 percent to a new low Friday amid concerns about the Internet social network's ability to woo increasingly skeptical advertisers and weather another wave of potential selling by its major stockholders.
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Facebook stock falls on its face, but don't count it out
USA TODAY
Things got worse for Facebook Friday, and its stock fell to a new low, as several Wall Street analysts covering the company turned more negative on the social networking leader. A German tourist poses for pictures outside Facebook headquarters in Menlo ...
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USA TODAY
Facebook Shares Hit New Lows
Wall Street Journal
Facebook Shares Hit New Lows. Facebook shares fell 5% to new lows Friday as two analysts from firms that underwrote its initial public offering cut their price targets on the shares, Paul Vigna reports on the News Hub. Photo: AP. Up Next ...
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Facebook Takes Another Fall as Analysts Cut Price Targets
Wall Street Journal
Analysts at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch and Bank of Montreal slashed their targets on Facebook 34% and 40%, respectively, though they cited different reasons for the cuts. Facebook shares sank 95 cents, or 5%, to $18.14--a new low--Friday. That puts ...
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Your View: Facebook responses (Sept. 1)
Las Cruces Sun-News
Your View: Facebook responses (Sept. 1). Posted: 09/01/2012 01:00:00 AM MDT. Editor's note: The following are comments from Las Cruces Sun-News Facebook readers: On Gov. Martinez's speech at the Republican Convention: Very proud of her! She did ...
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Flashback to 2001: How Far Can Facebook Shares Fall Before They Can't Fall ...
Forbes
Amazon.com's shares–which went public at $18, as it happens the price to which Facebook's shares fell today–had dipped below $6 a share in late 2001. Amazon had huge costs from building out massive warehouses around the country well ahead of its ...
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Blogs14 new results for Facebook
 
Linkin Park Music Video Puts Your Facebook Photos in Emotional Tale
By Brian Anthony Hernandez
Linkin Park's new music video for "Lost in the Echo" places your Facebook photos into an intense plot to personalize the tale just for you.
Mashable!
Foibly: All Facebook Offers in One Place
By Emil Protalinski
Foibly is a new service that lists all the Facebook Offers currently available on a single webpage, accessible via your PC and phone. You can sort the Offers based on whether they are new, popular, or expiring. Best of all, Foibly lets you do it ...
The Next Web
The Consumerist » Facebook Stock Down More Than 50 ...
By Meg Marco
Facebook stock has reached a new low following news that analysts at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch and Bank of Montreal have lowered their price target for the stock. "Revenue pressure from growing mobile usage, a larger-than-expected ...
The Consumerist
Facebook to Start Hunting Fake "Likes"
By Daniel Scocco
As the popularity of Facebook grew so did the importance most people give to "Likes". They pretty much represent the social-proof currency of the web these days (i.e., the more "Likes" you or your fan page has, the more popular you must be).
Daily Blog Tips
Facebook to eradicate 'suspicious Likes' from people who don't ...
By Agence France-Presse
SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook ramped up efforts Friday to get rid of "Likes" that aren't from people genuinely interested in giving a virtual thumbs up to pages at the world's leading social network. "We have recently increased our automated ...
The Raw Story
Facebook's double-whammy financial downgrade leads to another ...
By Jolie O'Dell
Facebook stock is trading at a new low: $18 and scant change at the time of this writing. We place the blame on analysts, which dealt the struggling social network a double whammy downgrade to expectations of its revenue and target stock ...
VentureBeat
As Facebook Stock Nears $18, Its Focus on Music Will Suffer ...
By Glenn Peoples, Nashville
Facebook shares dove under $19 and were trading down 4.86% to $18.17 Friday afternoon after slashed price targets and fresh revenue concerns. What this means for Billboard...
DOPNEWS: Billboard
How to remove or disable the Facebook Desktop plugin
By Martin Brinkmann
If you have installed Facebook's Messenger program for the desktop recently you may have noticed that your web browser is now listing a Facebook Desktop plugin.
gHacks Technology News | Latest...
Integrating my Facebook Batch Request Module in a content type ...
By ignaciotr
Hello there! I'm working in a proyect and I need tips of how to resolve this. I'm creating a module that is ready to tranfers multiple images in one single go using Facebook Batch Request (documented here)... But my problem is in the Drupal ...
drupal.org - Module Development...
How Joining Facebook Is Hurting Instagram
By The Daily Beast
Just months ago Instagram celebrated a billion-dollar buyout. Now it's falling along with Facebook.
Latest News
Facebook Moves to Wipe Out Fake 'Likes,' But Can't Do Anything ...
Facebook is planning a major effort to clean house of fraudulent "likes" on fan pages created by malware, deceived users or fake accounts created for the sole purpose of liking pages. According to a blog post by Facebook's security team, less ...
Advertising Age - Digital
Word of Mouth at Scale with Facebook: Understanding PTAT
By Brittany Darwell
One of the most exciting characteristics of Facebook if you are a brand marketer is the ability to achieve word of mouth at scale. Hearing from a friend carries a lot more weight than hearing from the brand itself – and Facebook interactions such ...
Inside Facebook
Facebook apps can now send you custom notifications | The Verge
By Andrew Webster
Facebook has released a new tool for app developers that means you could be receiving even more notifications soon. The new feature makes it possible for apps to send users notifications in the form...
The Verge - All Posts
Facebook Ads and Promoted Tweets Get More Targeted … and ...
By Ryan Pinkham
Has your business been stuck on the fence when it comes to social media advertising? Social media has always been looked at as the free marketing option for small businesses and, in most cases, it still is.
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