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Facebook Comment Tests Freedom of Speech in India
Wall Street Journal (blog)
In a case that is worrying commentators and freedom of speech activists, two girls were temporarily detained in Palaghar, a city 100 kilometers from Mumbai, in relation to a comment posted on Facebook on right-wing Hindu leader Bal Thackeray, who died ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Facebook denies report of search talks with Yahoo, says it has no partnership ...
San Jose Mercury News
Facebook, owner of the world's largest social network, said it isn't in talks to form a new search partnership and is working on improving its own search capabilities. "People expect a better search experience on Facebook," the Menlo Park-based company ...
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Facebook Adopts Secure Web Pages By Default
InformationWeek
"As announced last year, we are moving to HTTPS for all users," said Facebook platform engineer Shireesh Asthana in a Facebook developer forum blog post. "This week, we're starting to roll out HTTPS for all North America users and will be soon rolling ...
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Facebook: Yes, We Changed Your News Feed (FB)
San Francisco Chronicle
At a press event at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. today, News Feed product manager Will Cathchart admitted that there had been fluctuations in the number of times posts got seen, TechCrunch's Josh Constine reports. But those ...
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Why Facebook's Stock Looks Locked And Loaded
Forbes
"I've been called a lot worse." This continues to be my response to those proclaiming me as a Facebook apologist. Although I don't currently own the stock, I will concede that on more than one occasion I have come to the company's defense. It seems ...
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Forbes
Why Facebook Is Like TV
Gizmodo
First, I'm not recommending to any of my companies that we leave Facebook. I am recommending that we de-emphasize pushing consumers or partners to like us on FB and focus on building up our followings across all existing social media platforms and to ...
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Israeli Military To Citizens: Don't Facebook, Tweet, Instagram Rocket-Hit ...
Huffington Post
...so some of Americans can still think we're allied with "good guys". macbex: "Israeli Military To Citizens: Don't Facebook, Tweet, Instagram Rocket-Hit Locations". http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/macbex/israeli-military-to-citiz_n_2157966_207418818.
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Facebook's Sponsored Stories Lawsuit May Be Coming to a Close
WebProNews
Back in August, Judge Seeborg rejected Facebook's original settlement offer. The suit, which centered around Facebook's use of users' likeness in Sponsored Stories, was settled out of court by Facebook and the handful of California plaintiffs who ...
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Facebook post arrests: Need for educating law enforcers over misuse of IT Act ...
NDTV
New Delhi: Telecom and IT Minister Kapil Sibal today said he was "deeply saddened" by the arrest of two girls over their Facebook post questioning the shutdown in the city for Shiv Sena patriarch Bal Thackeray's funeral and said the IT Act should not ...
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Facebook's New On-Campus Swag Shop Dropped The "The", It's Simply Called ...
TechCrunch
You see, people who use services from companies like Twitter, Facebook, Google and Tumblr are proud of that fact and they want to show it off. The best way to show off a part of who you are is with fashion. Now mind you, I'm certainly no fashion expert ...
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TechCrunch
Pictures Worth a Thousand Shares
Daily Beast
Chiu posted it on Facebook, Tumblr, Google +, and Twitter, and soon got a repost on the Lavallette is Strong Facebook page, where Erica Weinschenk, an IT analyst, saw it. "I knew the audience for that group was small, based on its 'likes,' so I jumped ...
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Daily Beast
Facebook trawl may assist murder probe
The Australian
Sarah Cafferkey: "Unlike the way your mind works, not every one else operates on a sexual basis. Mature people of opposite sex's are able to have a friendship based on genuine interest and care for each other. Stop being immature over Facebook please ...
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Aziz Ansari Facebook Photos With The The Cast Of 'The Hills' Are Surreal
Huffington Post
Intrepid Tumblrer (I never know what to call people on Tumblr) Rachel Millman was digging around the archives of Aziz Ansari's Facebook page and unearthed some dusty old digital images of the Human Giant crew hanging out with the cast of The Hills at ...
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Facebook Turns On Carrier Billing Mobile Payments In France With Orange ...
TechCrunch
Another step in Facebook's plans to make more money out of its mobile business: the company is now accepting mobile payments in France, covering services like virtual gifts and game credits for its HTML5-based content, which can now be billed directly ...
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Look for a job using Facebook's new app
CBS News
The Social Jobs Partnership app is the outcome of a partnership started last year between Facebook, the U.S. Department of Labor and several other agencies. The app aggregates job search results from a number of services, including BranchOut, JobVite, ...
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CBS News
Facebook Inc (FB) Offers A Conversion Measurement Tool To E-Marketers
ValueWalk
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) is bringing a new and an advanced tool that will enable online retailers and marketers to track online purchases of Facebook users who have viewed their ads, reports Reuters. This development is reportedly going to help ...
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Facebook's Bullish Fan Base Gets Louder
Schaeffers Research
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB - 23.44) call volume was running two times above normal levels on Friday, as bullish investors scooped up relatively short-term positions in hopes of hopping on the stock's recent upsurge. Notably, speculators purchased a ...
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Women arrested for Facebook post: Markandey Katju's letters to Prithviraj Chavan
NDTV
New Delhi: Press Council of India chief Markandey Katju has written to Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan, demanding action against the cops who arrested two young women in Mumbai for protesting the shutdown in the city on Bal Thackeray's ...
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TechBytes: Yahoo-Facebook Alliance; New Nintendo Wii
ABC News
TechBytes: Yahoo-Facebook Alliance; New Nintendo Wii. Top executives from Facebook, Yahoo have met amid growing speculation. 11/19/2012. Related Links: Wii U: New Console Launches in a Sea of Gadgets · Nintendo Seeks to Shake up Gaming Again ...
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Amy: Ex-boyfriend's mom is Facebook 'friend'
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Dear Amy: Our daughter broke up with her first boyfriend in the middle of her senior year in high school. They began dating her sophomore year. Now they live a 2 1/2-hour plane ride apart and she is a freshman in college. She remains in casual contact ...
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Five Top Reasons Why Marketers Fail on Facebook
Huffington Post (blog)
It seems that most brands and nonprofits are still trying to get their head around what works on Facebook. What content works best, what time to publish updates and how to use sponsored stories are consistent themes being discussed among nonprofit ...
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NAACP questions Facebook post by radio host Bill Way
Jackson Sun
Carter said that on Friday, Way posted the following on his Facebook page: "A short message to Obama voters. To vote for him with a 9.2 unemployment rate, a (expletive) of Benghazi lies, $16,000,000,000 in debt and an israeli war, (a derogatory ...
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Facebook Analytics Firm Socialbakers Raises $6M From Index Ventures
AllFacebook
Facebook analytics firm Socialbakers announced Monday that it has raised $6 million in investments from Index Ventures, as well as additional funding from first-round investors such as Early Bird Ventures. In a blog post, Socialbakers notes that it has ...
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HireRabbit Debuts Its Facebook-Based Social Recruiting Platform
TechCrunch
HireRabbit, a company offering tools for Facebook-based recruiting, is exiting private beta today with the launch of its software-as-a-service platform for building a customized job sites on Facebook Pages. The system lets companies set up both a ...
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Right-wing MK's Facebook friends suggest ways to 'liquidate' Arab MK
Haaretz
Dozens of violent comments were posted on the Facebook page of a right-wing MK on Sunday after he asked his followers "what should be done to" an Arab MK who participated in a moment of silence to honor the dead in Gaza. "What, in your opinion, ...
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Haaretz

Blogs10 new results for Facebook
 
Yahoo and Facebook Not in Search Alliance Discussions - AllThingsD
By Kara Swisher
Yahoo and Facebook are not currently in talks about forming a search alliance or building a search engine together, according to my sources, who scoffed about such a deal reported in a thinner-than-tissue-paper post by the Telegraph earlier ...
AllThingsD
Women Arrested in Mumbai for Complaining on Facebook ...
By By NEHA THIRANI
A woman's comment about a strike related to Hindu group Shiv Sena and her friend's "like," land them in jail.
India Ink
Troy Hunt: Disassembling the Woolworths Facebook scam
By Troy Hunt
Recently I wrote about the mechanics of another Facebook scam where the "bait" was photos of a salacious school girl. Many people – including female friends and my mother in law – readily fell for that one. This one takes quite a different and ...
Troy Hunt's Blog
Facebook On News Feed Changes - Business Insider
By Owen Thomas
At a press event at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. today, News Feed product manager Will Cathchart admitted that there had been fluctuations in the number of times posts got seen, TechCrunch's Josh Constine reports.
Business Insider
Facebook Rolls Out Bango-Powered Operator Billing Payments in ...
By Matt Brian
With the payment service going live, Orange smartphone customers are free to charge digital purchases on Facebook to their mobile tariff, lowering the number of tedious steps often required to make a mobile payment and helping developers ...
The Next Web Top Stories
How Yahoo Could Cut A Deal With Facebook - Business Insider
By John Carney
The main reason people have for doubting the idea of a search alliance between Yahoo and Facebook is that Yahoo already has a long term search deal with Microsoft. Kara Swisher of All Things D says that "it would be nearly impossible for ...
Business Insider
Yahoo, Facebook Talking Search? Not Likely - AllFacebook
By David Cohen
A report surfaced in U.K. newspaper The Telegraph over the weekend that Yahoo President and CEO Marissa Mayer and Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg were in talks aimed at having their respective companies ...
AllFacebook
Mark Cuban Just Wants Facebook to Admit It's 'A Huge Time Suck ...
By Kelly Faircloth
What must Facebook do to placate Mark Cuban? First, the Dallas Mavericks owner complained the company's push for promoted posts was driving brands away. But now that the social network has introduced a new pages feed, he still isn't ...
Betabeat
Indians arrested for Facebook post on Mumbai shutdown | The Raw ...
By Agence France-Presse
Indian police said Monday they had arrested a woman for criticising on Facebook the total shutdown of Mumbai after the death of politician Bal Thackeray, as well as a friend who "liked" the comment. The pair were due to appear in court later ...
The Raw Story
Facebook users warned vs 11-year-old virus hoax | SciTech | GMA ...
Users of Facebook were warned Friday against an 11-year-old virus hoax that has been resurrected and is now making the rounds of the social networking site.
GMA News Online


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