Saturday, October 20, 2012

Google Alert - Facebook

News30 new results for Facebook
 
SEC Facebook IPO Probe Said to Find No Wrongdoing So Far
Bloomberg
The Securities and Exchange Commission, which began probing Facebook Inc.'s (FB) May 17 IPO after its stock price plummeted, hasn't found evidence that the company withheld material information from investors, a person familiar with the matter said.
See all stories on this topic »
Facebook privacy issues percolating in Europe
Washington Post
Max Schrems is the founder of Europe v. Facebook, a group seeking to have Facebook adhere to European privacy laws. Schrems discusses his path to starting the group when he requested his personal data file from Facebook and received an extensive ...
See all stories on this topic »
Lane Goodwin | Facebook sensation, 13
Philadelphia Inquirer
Lane Goodwin, 13, a small-town boy who won a huge Facebook following for his thumbs-up attitude about his cancer, has lost his battle with the disease. He died Wednesday night, eliciting an outpouring from his heartbroken followers. The announcement of ...
See all stories on this topic »
Facebook VP says the company is finally focused on mobile
CNET
Smith, the vice president of mobile partnerships and corporate development at Facebook, said at a mobile industry conference today that the company knows it needs to be mobile first from here on out. That's why it's trained all its engineers to be ...
See all stories on this topic »
Amazon, Apple, Facebook: Are They Large Enough To Drive The Entire US ...
Forbes
It sounds almost absurd that just three technology companies could between them be large enough to drive the entire commercial property market in a country of 300 million people. But it does appear that, at least at the margin and by one method of ...
See all stories on this topic »
Congress launches website, Facebook page for presidential inauguration
Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Congress has launched a website and Facebook page as it prepares for the 57th presidential inauguration to take place on the west side of the Capitol on Jan. 21. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement Friday that the website will ...
See all stories on this topic »
Facebook is getting rid of its Questions feature
VatorNews
"Today we're introducing Facebook Questions, a beta product that lets you pose questions like these to the Facebook community. With this new application, you can get a broader set of answers and learn valuable information from people knowledgeable on a ...
See all stories on this topic »
Facebook privacy targeted by Austrian law student
Washington Post
VIENNA — To carry on his war against Facebook, Max Schrems figures he needs at least 200,000 euros — about $250,000 — no small sum for a law student scraping by on a government stipend. But like those he is targeting, Schrems, 25, is a creature of ...
See all stories on this topic »
Facebook Officially Begins Shutting Down "Questions" Product
TechCrunch
Questions will still be available in Groups and Pages, plus you can look at your old ones but it seems Facebook's resources are better spent building something else, like, oh I don't know, search. Back in mid 2010, there was a lot of talk that Facebook ...
See all stories on this topic »

TechCrunch
Five Ways Small Businesses Can Make the Most of Facebook
Huffington Post (blog)
Small business owners are usually stretched pretty thin in terms of time and budget. Most businesses want to thrive on Facebook but can't devote the kind of time they'd really want to make an impact. Try spending about 10 minutes a day on your Facebook ...
See all stories on this topic »
Facebook and Microsoft to help in Gove's major revamp of computer science ...
Daily Mail
Facebook aid its 90 UK-based staff an average of £275,000 each in 2011 while contributing just £195,890 to the Treasury's coffers, according to the firm's latest accounts filed at Companies House. The website also reported UK revenues of £20.4m, a ...
See all stories on this topic »

Daily Mail
Facebook page reveals details of unmarked police cars
The Australian
UNDERCOVER detectives are being put at risk and covert operations in jeopardy by a Facebook page revealing details of the state's unmarked police cars. The Sunday Herald Sun understands Victoria Police has complained and requested the site be taken ...
See all stories on this topic »
On Mitt Romney, Barack Obama and Zarlengo's: Facebook Feedback
Patch.com
There were also several responses from one of our more active Facebook friends, Michael Bowman, including the following gem: "It's a conversation starter indeed. How can he say that he is against or going to "crack down" on China but is invested in ...
See all stories on this topic »
Facebook 'Likes' London for mobile push
Telegraph.co.uk
Whiile its share price is depressed, Facebook's political stock remains buoyant. Not many companies could get the Chancellor of the Exchequer to open a small regional office when their own chief executive can't make it, especially when they have just ...
See all stories on this topic »

Telegraph.co.uk
Man In Scott Brown Campaign Ad Spreads Homophobia, Anti-Semitism Via ...
Towleroad
Sledge also points out that Patriarca's Facebook page is littered with anti-gay, anti-Semitic and all around jerky messages, including one in which he calls Warren a "douchebag." He also calls President Obama a "faggot" and in another post, about his ...
See all stories on this topic »
Facebook search OK'd
Winnipeg Free Press
Nelson ruled the defence can subpoena the Twitter and Facebook accounts of Martin under case law: Because Zimmerman is making a self-defence claim, any evidence that supports possible aggressive tendencies by Martin is valid. O'Mara said he has ...
See all stories on this topic »

Winnipeg Free Press
Big Tex fans say goodbye on Facebook after fire destroys metal cowboy
Examiner.com
On Friday, Facebook fans bid a fond farewell to Big Tex, after an electrical fire left the metal cowboy a mere skeleton. The Texas State Fair icon for 60 years wore a 75-gallon hat, size 70 boots, and stood 52 feet tall. According to the Houston ...
See all stories on this topic »
Your View: Facebook responses (Oct. 20)
Las Cruces Sun-News
Your View: Facebook responses (Oct. 20). Posted: 10/20/2012 01:00:00 AM MDT. Editor's note: The following are comments from Las Cruces Sun-News Facebook readers: On LCHS teacher Pamela Cort being named NM Teacher of the Year: She absolutely ...
See all stories on this topic »
Facebook investor may invest $150 million in Airbnb
Times of India
SAN FRANCISCO: Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder and Facebook's first outside investor, is close to investing roughly $150 million in Airbnb in a deal that would value the lodging rental start-up at about $2.5 billion, according to people familiar with ...
See all stories on this topic »
A Facebook Furor
Science Careers Blog (blog)
Being a serious scientific publication, we resisted commenting when we saw heated discussion in the blogosphere (link not suitable for work) about the unfortunate observation that University of Chicago evolutionary biologist and neurobiologist Dario ...
See all stories on this topic »
Facebook to Tell Us More About Gifts at November 1st Event
WebProNews
Are you excited about having the ability to send your Facebook friends real, tangible gifts? Is it "ability" or "obligation?" Hm. That might make all the difference. Either way, the new Facebook Gifts platform is on the way, and we might get a little ...
See all stories on this topic »
Path Tried To Grab More Users With Facebook But It Didn't Work
Business Insider
A month ago, Path had one million monthly active users who had linked its mobile "personal journal" service to their Facebook accounts, according to AppData, an app tracking service. Now AppData has it at 720,000. That's a big drop. A source close to ...
See all stories on this topic »
Facebook begins phasing out "Questions"
SlashGear
Facebook has begun phasing out Questions from users, a move that's not particularly surprising considering that it removed the product from the homepage sidebar earlier this year. According to CNET, a Facebook representative stated that the social ...
See all stories on this topic »
UK man jailed over Facebook status raises questions over free speech
CBS News
LONDON Americans often cite free speech when controversial statements offend certain groups of people, but what if you went to jail for making an ill-humored joke on Facebook? That's what happened to one British man recently, over his status update.
See all stories on this topic »
Facebook VP Vaughan Smith: Tags were key to photo sharing
Bizjournals.com (blog)
Vaughan Smith, Facebook's VP of Mobile Partnerships & Corporate Development, said Friday that the ability to tag friends in images was the key to getting people to use the site for photo sharing. Diana Samuels: Technology Reporter- Silicon Valley / San ...
See all stories on this topic »
Facebook quietly phases out FB Questions
CNET
The social-networking giant is beginning to remove the product for users, a Facebook representative told CNET, but Questions will remain available for Pages and Groups. Facebook is making the move, the representative said, "to focus on other things.
See all stories on this topic »
Mamata 'shares' her anger on Facebook over Jairam letter
The Hindu
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today took serious umbrage at Union Minister Jairam Ramesh writing to her that the 'brain-dead government in Delhi' was sensitive to the needs of people of the State. "Incidentally, may I add that this ...
See all stories on this topic »

The Hindu
Woburn Company Teams Up With Facebook
Patch.com
Kaspersky Lab, a developer of security and threat management solutions, is supplying Facebook with "up-to-the-minute data about the latest malicious software threats worldwide," according to a statement from the Woburn-based company. Kaspersky Lab ...
See all stories on this topic »
FACEBOOK: People Don't Want To Get Online, They Want To Get On Facebook
Business Insider
Vaughan Smith, Facebook's head of corporate development, said in a speech Friday at the Global Mobile Internet Conference in San Jose, Calif. that people in emerging markets didn't want Internet access per se—they wanted to get on Facebook. Ina Fried ...
See all stories on this topic »

Business Insider
Facebook Inc (FB): How Are The Tiger Cubs Trading The Social Network?
Insider Monkey (blog)
A positive note for Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has been that Google's social network, Google Plus, still struggles to gain traction in the social networking market. As well, Apple recently shut down its social network Ping. Apple was Tiger Global's top ...
See all stories on this topic »

Insider Monkey (blog)

Blogs15 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook Winds Down Questions Product - Mike Isaac - Social ...
By Mike Isaac
Facebook confirmed on Friday it will soon ramp down its Questions product, which gives users the ability to poll their friends directly from the News Feed. It will still be available inside of Facebook's Groups and Pages products, but the ...
AllThingsD
Facebook blocks Swiss newspaper for publishing nude photo | The ...
By Agence France-Presse
The Swiss daily Tribune de Geneve said Friday it had its Facebook account blocked by the social networking giant after publishing an explicit image of a woman's genitals. In a bid to illustrate an article on cosmetic surgery, the newspaper ran ...
The Raw Story
Wither the hard drive? Facebook's secret plans for flash memory ...
By Stacey Higginbotham
Facebook is planning to rely more on flash drives in places where most companies have used spinning disk, and based on conversations with sources and hints from Facebook, I think one of those places will be in Facebook's cold-storage ...
GigaOM
Facebook makes Questions product available only for groups, pages
By Brittany Darwell
Facebook has removed the Questions feature from users' News Feed publisher, leaving the product only available to groups and pages, TechCrunch confirms. Questions has gone through a number of iterations, never quite catching on as the ...
Inside Facebook
Microsoft drops Twitter, Facebook from new Xbox 360 dashboard ...
By Earnest Cavalli
Social networking addicts beware: The new Xbox 360 dashboard update removes both Twitter and Facebook from the console.
Why Is Facebook Purple? Profiles Turn Purple To Fight Bullying On ...
By Dan Evon
Are you seeing a little extra purple on Facebook today? Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with your screen. Today is GLAAD's Spirit Day and several people.
The Inquisitr
Depot District brewhouse takes to Facebook to catch a thief - KCBD ...
By Sarah-Blake Morgan
Triple J Chophouse and Brew Co. is using social media to try and catch a man they say, stole a tip jar. Two surveillance cameras in the bar area captured the man grabbing the tip jar.
KCBD - News (Wireless)
Weekly changes in Facebook stock prices - seattlepi.com
Weekly changes in Facebook stock prices On its first day of trading, Facebook Inc.'s stock closed barely above its public offering price. [...] the stock price fell for 14 weeks and increased for eight. Here's are the closing prices each week since ...
seattlepi.com: Health & Science...
Facebook Ad As Publicity Stunt? | PPC Hero®
By BoostCTR
In this week's ads in the wild column Jeff Sexton of Boost CTR looks at using Facebook ads as a publicity stunt. Learn more at PPC Hero.
PPC Strategies & Pay Per Click...
Facebook Privacy Flaw exposed two College Gay Students ...
By Mohit Kumar
Facebook is continually changing its privacy settings, trying to give users more control over what they want to share and with whom. Two gay college students were outed on Facebook because of a privacy flaw in Facebook Groups. Users can ...
The Hacker News [ THN ] - World's...
Facebook Probe: Here's the SEC's Fresh Update | Wall St. Cheat ...
By info@wallstcheatsheet.com (Damien Hoffman)
So far the SEC's search has not yielded any evidence of Facebook withholding material information from investors, but the probe will continue as the SEC team hunts for signs of pre-IPO behavior that could have hurt future shareholders...
Wall St. Cheat Sheet
The Facebook Stalker: Real Estate Investors Need Thick Skin!
By Clay Huber
You will need thick skin if you plan on having a Facebook account while being a real estate investor. It is only a matter of time!
The BiggerPockets Blog
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Gets An Official Facebook Page
Director James Gunn has just Tweeted a link to the official Facebook page for his upcoming Marvel space-saga, Guardians Of The Galaxy. There's very little content at the moment, but keep an eye on it as you never know what might pop up in ...
Comic Book Movie
Facebook Limits Fan Page Posts | 5NEWSOnline.com — Ft. Smith ...
By Garrett Lewis
Posts from all of the "Fan Pages" you have liked might not show up on your feed anymore. That's because Facebook recently made changes with a new computer algorithm which decides whether or not you should see the post. Which it really ...
5NEWSOnline.com -- Ft. Smith,...
Facebook Groups Raises Funds To Get Oklahoman In Africa Back ...
By Chris McKinnon
An Oklahoman who now lives in Africa is getting some much needed help from friends she has not seen in 18 years.
NEWS 9 - News


Tip: Use a minus sign (-) in front of terms in your query that you want to exclude. Learn more.

Delete this alert.
Create another alert.
Manage your alerts.

No comments:

Post a Comment