Sunday, October 21, 2012

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News29 new results for Facebook
 
Top Facebook executive quits to join London's Tech City
Reuters
LONDON (Reuters) - Joanna Shields, head of social media group Facebook's operations in Europe, is leaving to join a British government-sponsored venture to create London's answer to Silicon Valley. Tech City Investment Organisation was set up in April ...
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Facebook campaign advertisements don't work, says new study
The Hill (blog)
Facebook advertisements are a popular way for candidates to connect with voters, but a recent academic study suggests they aren't actually that effective. Donald Green, a political science professor at Columbia University, and David Brookman, a ...
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Microsoft Kills Facebook and Twitter Apps on Xbox Live, Adds IE9
PC Magazine
According to a Microsoft representative, as reported by IGN's Mitch Dyer, the company's "retiring the Facebook and Twitter apps," and it's unclear what, exactly, Microsoft means by its reasoning: The move will allow Microsoft to "streamline" app ...
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First Look: 'Iron Man 3' Teaser Trailer Unlocked By SuperFans From Facebook
Indie Wire (blog)
The trailer for Disney/Marvel's "Iron Man 3" debuts in three days (Wednesday, October 24), which means, of course, something has to hit first, and that something is a teaser trailer, or perhaps more accurately, a 17-second trailer for the trailer. It ...
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Facebook complaint leads Israeli hospital to probe treatment of patient who died
Haaretz
The Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer has decided to investigate the circumstances leading up to the death of a patient, after a Facebook posting by the man's son criticized the hospital's treatment in his father's final days. Yoram Segev of ...
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Haaretz
Facebook reveals the real Romney voter
Examiner.com
"Who in the world would vote for Mitt Romney?" It's a question heard more and more from Obama supporters as election day nears. Today, my Facebook page provided the answer. It came in the form of a Facebook post by Paul Ryan. "Mr. President, where is ...
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Examiner.com
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Talks Candidly About MySpace
Complex.com (blog)
Recently, Mark Zuckerberg spoke with Y Combinator founder Paul Graham for the 2012 edition of Startup School and the topic of MySpace came up. Surprisingly, Zuckerberg complimented MySpace claiming that the once popular social media site was "doing ...
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Complex.com (blog)
Facebook rises, Google edgy in digital advertisement war
Hindustan Times
Will you pay as much money for an economy class seat in a flight as for a business class? Will you pay more for a health drink does not clearly mention its ingredients as for another one that does? If you answers to both those questions is an easy "No!
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STX Golf Fall Facebook promotion gives away Sync Series Putters
WorldGolf.com
BALTIMORE -- STX Golf, world-renowned as an industry pioneer in putter innovation with its patented Soft Face Insert Technology, announced that the company has launched its Fall Facebook promotion. According to STX Director of Golf Steve Henneman, ...
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NYC sees progress in quest to become tech capital
Businessweek
Tech titans including Google and Facebook have ramped up their presences in New York in recent years. Some big-name newcomers are headquartered here. Plans for an elite technology graduate school, attracted with city money, are getting enough ...
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You can reach Facebook to report scammers
Boston Globe
Q. Someone set up a duplicate Facebook page that appears with my name, and the same profile and cover photo as my real profile. Then they sent a message to my Facebook friends — a standard scam e-mail about claiming a $90,000 prize. I was able to ...
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How Bodyform Made Period Hell Funny On Facebook — And Clocked Up More ...
TechCrunch
It's a response to an equally amusing post on Bodyform's Facebook page – by a bloke called Richard — pointing out the discrepancy between the company's excitement-fuelled visualisations of that time of the month and the less-than-fun reality of periods.
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GTA 5 Update: 'Grand Theft Auto V' Facebook Page Launched for Fans to ...
Gather.com
While many restless fans are still worried about a GTA 5 release date, luckily Rockstar Games and company have set up a new place for them to vent their frustrations and emotions or meet new friends. The social media site Facebook now has the official ...
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Want More Engagement on Your Facebook Page?
BlogHer (blog)
First, it appears that Facebook was added to the growing list of sites kicked out of Twitter's Band Camp. If you have set up either your personal or business page to automatically feed your updates over to Twitter, it probably isn't doing that anymore ...
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BlogHer (blog)
New Tech City CEO Says London Can be World's Tech Center
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Joanna Shields Facebook's head of Europe, is quitting the company to become the next head of the U.K.'s Tech City program. She aims to make London "the number one location for tech in the world". Ms. Shields, 49, said via email that she will take up ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Facebook to discontinue Questions feature
IBNLive
A Cnet report confirms that Facebook is slowly pulling its Questions feature out of the picture. A Facebook representative said that the decison has been made so that Facebook could focus on other things. The Questions feature will be unavailable for ...
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IBNLive
Facebook page reveals details of unmarked police cars
NEWS.com.au
''This should be of great concern to Victoria Police and it should be making the strongest possible recommendations to Facebook to take this site down and, if it doesn't, to explore criminal offences associated with this intelligence gathering exercise ...
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On Monday, commenters must log in using Facebook account
Morning Sentinel
The online news landscape has seen a lot of changes in the past five years, but one thing has remained the same: Readers love to comment. These mostly anonymous debates, wisecracks and fusillades posted at the bottom of news stories have long been ...
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Facebook's EMEA Head Joanna Shields Is Leaving To Become CEO Of ...
TechCrunch
Surprising news for a Saturday evening in London: another post-IPO executive departure for Facebook, this time on the international front. Joanna Shields, the vice president and managing director of Facebook's Europe, Middle East and Africa operations, ...
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TechCrunch
Why has Facebook's float been such a disaster?
The Australian Financial Review
The moment of the launch of Facebook as a $US100 billion public company seemed to show the myth of the American Dream in real time, visual proof that something – potentially the world's most valuable entity – had been made out of nothing, a simple idea ...
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The Australian Financial Review
Taking Stock: Blame yourself for Facebook loss
NewsOK.com
Dear Mr. Berko: When I asked my broker last May about buying 400 shares of Facebook, he didn't think it was a good idea. He said General Motors had pulled its advertising because it wasn't reaching the right audience and believed other advertisers ...
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Facebook's First Server Cost $85/Month
TechCrunch
At Startup School today in the Memorial Auditorium at Stanford University, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke to Y Combinator founder Paul Graham about the early days of Facebook. He revealed that, early on, the team did not intend for ...
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TechCrunch
Facebook boost as profits set to hit $284m
Telegraph.co.uk
The anxiety over the pace of revenue growth has deepened because Facebook's fastest expansion is in users accessing the site on mobile devices, which command lower advertising rates. The challenge presented by mobile, which accounts for 600m of ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Are you a Facebook fake?
NEWS.com.au
I know I do! The tagline from the superb account of Facebook's rise, The Social Network (2010) reads: "You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies." As Facebook hits the outer reaches of Mark Zuckerberg and Sean Parker's cyber ...
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5 tools to help cover your tracks online
USA TODAY
The Chrome extension scans your Facebook and Google settings, showing you which cookies are tracking you as you browse. After the initial scan, it will tell you which issues should be fixed (eg. Facebook likes being used for ads), and alert you to ...
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USA TODAY
EdgeRank: Optimizing Your Facebook Posts
Business 2 Community
Have you ever noticed that you only see a handful of posts (relative to the number of friends or fans you have) on your Facebook news feed? What about the varying positions of these posts on your feed? It is all decided by EdgeRank, Facebook's ...
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Icelanders support revising constitution, crowdsourced via Facebook and Twitter
NEWS.com.au
The committee asked the public for feedback on constitutional proposals, including via social networking websites Facebook and Twitter, prompting the media to dub the new basic law as the world's first "crowdsourced constitution". Icelanders also voted ...
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NEWS.com.au
Zuckerberg: Facebook Started Out As A 'Hobby' And A 'Project,' Not A Company
TechCrunch
"I started building Facebook because I wanted to use it in college… we weren't looking to start a company," he said. "I had this one friend who I went to have pizza with almost every night, we did all our computer science problem sets together at ...
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Official Facebook page for 'GTA 5' launches in preparation for upcoming reveal
Examiner.com
Scheduled to grace the cover of the December issue of Game Informer magazine, "GTA 5" will finally be revealed to the world. In preparation for this, it seems that Rockstar Games is now gearing up for their marketing campaign towards this massively ...
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Blogs14 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook Exec Joanna Shields Departs for Economic Role in ...
By Tricia Duryee
Joanna Shields, Facebook's VP and managing director of the social network's operations in Europe, Middle East and Africa, has left the company to become CEO of Tech City Investment Organisation, a high-tech economic development group ...
AllThingsD
Why Facebook Job Apps Will Ultimately Fail
By Amit De
Facebook remains the sole frontier that is purely intended for social interactions, and job seekers are eager to keep it that way.
Mashable » Social Media
Facebook Exec Leaves To Create Silicon Valley In The UK
By Ken Yeung
Facebook's Joanna Shields is leaving the social network to join Britain's attempt to build their own "Silicon Valley".
The Next Web
Even after user logs in facebook, login button is shown - Stack ...
By Pratik
I am using facebook javascript sdk for user to login and then php sdk for other process. This is my sample code: <?php require_once('AppInfo.php'); require 'src/facebook.php'; $facebook = new Facebook(array( 'appId' => '*****', 'secret' ...
Recent Questions - Stack Overflow
Hate Those Facebook Games? You Can Block Facebook Apps in 2 ...
By Annie Jenkins
Had enough of those annoying invitations to play Farmville 2, Cityville, Lucky Slots - all those crazy Facebook games? Well - we found a very easy way to.
NewsTalk 1280 WGBF
Follow me on twitter and facebook - Susan Polgar Chess Daily ...
By Susan Polgar
My first four Facebook accounts are completely full with 5,000 friends each. If you want to add me as friend, please use this account http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003727959372 instead. I cannot accept additional request on my ...
Susan Polgar Chess Daily News...
Instapundit » Blog Archive » SEEN ON FACEBOOK: …
By Glenn Reynolds
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR: Why the Benghazi terrorist attack still dogs Obama. Because he lied. … IN THE MAIL: The Liberal War on Transparency. … » October 21, 2012. SEEN ON FACEBOOK: Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 10:57 am ...
Instapundit
Facebook VP for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Joanna ...
By Charles Gross
Joanna Shields, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) VP for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, is leaving to help create a new Silicon Valley in East London . Ms Shields will head the Tech City Investment Organization, according to the Sunday ...
Benzinga - Stock Market Quotes,...
New Show Specific Facebook Pages (Spoilers)
By DarkUFO
We're pleased to announce the introduction of some Show Specific Facebook Pages that you can like and be kept informed when we post new content here rather than having to follow our main SpoilerTV Facebook page. We're starting off ...
Spoiler TV
Xbox 360 update removes Twitter and Facebook apps | Geeky ...
By Conner Flynn
Earlier this week Microsoft started rolling out the latest update to the Xbox 360 menu interface, the Dashboard. One of the big new things is an Internet Explorer app for surfing the Internet and accessing browser-based online services.
Geeky Gadgets
Price Chopper Bonus Store Coupons (Facebook offer)
By Michelle Hovestadt
*Get $2 OFF a Bella Roma Corner to Corner In-Store Baked Pizza. I see these 12 cut Corner to Corner Pizza price at $9.99 this week, so you'll pay $7.99 after the coupon. This coupon is also in my weekly flyer, so the Facebook coupon doesn't ...
Wicked Cool Deals
Kevin's Korner: Romney's Last Chance, Santorum's Spark and ...
By Kevin Hall
Greetings and welcome to Kevin's Korner. We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. I'm a big supporter of this Lily Leadbelly law everyone is talking about. Leadbelly put out some ...
The Iowa Republican
Problems with links via Twitter & Facebook? - Keep Talking Greece
By keeptalkinggreece
I get some feedback that KTG followers cannot open links to posts via Twitter and Facebook. We try to check and fix the problem within the next hours. It's.
Keep Talking Greece
Are Romney "Obama" Facebook & Twitter Ads Dirty Tactics Or Smart ...
By Marty Weintraub
Decide for yourself if this is a dirty tactic or smart politics?
aimClear® Blog

Web2 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook Commercial Gets Flushed (You Knew This Was Coming ...
Facebook is like a lot of places we sit. A throne, for example.
allthingsd.com/.../facebook-commercial-gets-flushed-you-kne...
Facebook partners with retailers to test 'want' button - MSNBC
Facebook is testing a feature that lets users create "wishlists" of home furnishings , clothing and other retail products, laying the groundwork for a potential push ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../facebook-partners-retailers-test-want-...


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