Monday, December 17, 2012

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News29 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook updates 'Nearby' tab
USA TODAY
Facebook today is updating its "Nearby" tab on the Apple iOS and Android Facebook apps, with the social network updating its mapping tools to give users more recommendations from friends about local places to visit. With over 1 billion members, some ...
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Israeli embassy's Facebook page says Palestinians would 'lynch' Jesus and Mary
Washington Post (blog)
The official Facebook page of Israel's embassy to Ireland this morning posted, and then abruptly deleted, a provocative message arguing that "hostile Palestinians" would "lynch" Jesus Christ and his mother, Mary, if they lived in today's Bethlehem. The ...
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Review: Add life to Facebook fan and business pages with Heyo Social
PCWorld (blog)
Your small business or fan Facebook page is probably fine just the way it is. But it could be a whole lot better. That's the idea behind Heyo Social, a nifty Web-based tool that allows you to add a whole lot of content to your Facebook fan or small ...
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Morgan gets slap on wrist over botched Facebook IPO | Internet & Media - CNET ...
CNET
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has fined Morgan Stanley $5 million over the botched Facebook IPO, according to terms of a consent order. In case you're wondering, that's about half the bonus of a starting secretary at the investment house. OK, we're ...
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Facebook Isn't--and Shouldn't Be--A Democracy
Forbes
In 2009, Facebook ($FB) nominally enabled user governance by obligating itself to honor user votes before making certain site policy changes. This experiment in user self-governance was radical and largely unprecedented–especially given the size of ...
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Facebook 'sexts'? Report says social network plans Snapchat clone
Los Angeles Times
Want to send a saucy photo? Facebook is looking at a way to do it discreetly. The 1-billion-user social network is reportedly set to release a new app before Jan. 1 that will be similar to Snapchat, an app often used to send "sexts," or sexually ...
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NRA Facebook Page Disappears After School Shooting
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The National Rifle Association, the most powerful advocate of expanding gun rights and opposing gun control measures, has apparently suspended its Facebook page in the wake of the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn. Shortly before the Friday ...
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Facebook's Wal-Mart Gambit
Wall Street Journal
Facebook Inc.'s stock is up more than 50% from its September nadir. But whether the company can keep wooing back investors will depend on deals like its Black Friday experiment with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. On Thanksgiving, Facebook Chief Operating Officer ...
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Wall Street Journal
US mobile advertising to triple this year fueled by Facebook, Google
Los Angeles Times
It will nearly triple this year to more than $4 billion, fueled by an uptick in advertising sales at tech giants Facebook and Google and also at Twitter, EMarketer said in a new report. Google is expected to ring up nearly $2.2 billion in mobile ad ...
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Instagram tweaks privacy policy to share with Facebook
USA TODAY
Photo-sharing app Instagram is making changes to its privacy policy that allows it to share data with social network — and owner — Facebook. According to a post from Instagram's official blog, the changes will take affect starting Jan. 16. They also ...
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Before Facebook Deal, Instagram's Talks With Twitter
New York Times (blog)
BEFORE FACEBOOK DEAL, INSTAGRAM'S TALKS WITH TWITTER | Facebook's deal to buy Instagram for $1 billion stunned Wall Street and Silicon Valley when it was announced in April. But executives at Twitter had an additional reason to be surprised.
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Iran's Supreme Leader Joins 'Zionist' Facebook
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
Already active on microblogging site Twitter, social network Google+, and photo-sharing network Instagram, Iran's supreme leader has now joined Facebook -- which has been blocked by Iranian authorities and demonized as a "Zionist" instrument and a tool ...
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Facebook enhanced location feature hits Yelp stock
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) on Monday said it has upgraded its Nearby feature which allows users to tag posts with locations. The upgraded version would also give a user's friends information on nearby locations, such as ...
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Facebook's New Job Search App: Useful, but Too Much Work
Forbes
Recently, the Social Jobs Partnership — an initiative that includes Facebook, the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Association of Colleges and Employers, the DirectEmployers Association and the National Association of State Workforce Agencies ...
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Forbes
Fun with Fake Facebook Friends « Digital Frontiers
Voice of America (blog)
The other day I got a friend request from a man claiming to work at VOA in DC as a programmer. His pedigree was impressive, with claims to an Oxford education. As a one-time VOA intern and current Digital Frontiers contributor, I friended him without ...
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Voice of America (blog)
Facebook's 2012 Year in Review | Burger with Relish: Music | The Salt Lake ...
Salt Lake Tribune (blog)
Below find key highlights including the most popular songs on Facebook and top public figures (One Direction and Madonna made the top-10 list alongside President Barack Obama) and more. Photos. Recent Posts. Facebook's 2012 Year in Review ...
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Facebook posts of traffic violations will be scrutinised
The Hindu
Bringing way-ward motorists to book was never so easy. All you have to do is post their 'violations' on Traffic Police Facebook page. However, if you want the police to take action on the traffic violations you witnessed, mere posting the photographs ...
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The Hindu
Rovio Launches Angry Birds Star Wars On Facebook With Social Integration ...
TechCrunch
Angry Birds Star Wars for Facebook is looking to spread the love even further, with the hopes that some of Rovio's troves of users will compete against each other directly through their Facebook connections. Gameplay remains the same as the mobile app ...
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Lanza's Facebook Impersonators
Daily Beast
In this case, news organizations as well as untold people said the shooter was 24-year-old Ryan Lanza, who had to take to his Facebook page to proclaim his innocence. He wrote that "IT WASN'T ME I WAS AT WORK IT WASN'T ME" and, less elegantly, ...
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Daily Beast
Instagram privacy policy change allows sharing with Facebook | Internet ...
CNET
Instagram, the photo-sharing service that Facebook bought out this year, has announced changes to its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. The company said today in a blog update that the changes will go into effect on January 16, and will in no way ...
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Amazon Launches An Ad Exchange To Rival Facebook And Google
Business Insider
The self-serve RTB platform would hypothetically function similarly to Facebook's Ads Manager in terms of how buyers could target their ads. Sources said Amazon is extremely protective of its data and wary of providing outside access, so like Facebook, ...
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Business Insider
Man arrested for Facebook threat to California schools
NDTV
Los Angeles: Police in Los Angeles have arrested a man for allegedly making shooting threats to "multiple elementary schools" in a post on Facebook, a spokeswoman and reports said on Monday. The suspect was arrested on Sunday, after officers went to ...
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What It Was Like to Be Ryan Lanza's Facebook Friend When The World Thought ...
Business Insider
Ryan took to Facebook to defend himself, but only those who were friends with him could see his updates. "F*ck you CNN it wasn't me," he wrote frantically from his mobile device while the world told him to rot in hell. "Everyone shut the f*ck up it ...
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Business Insider
Katy Brand: Why I'm avoiding my Facebook '2012 Year in Review'
Telegraph.co.uk
Something is afoot on Facebook. All over my timeline, little postcards are popping up with 2012 printed across the centre of two lines, dividing it into four segments. In each segment, there is a different picture of whomever has posted it, which the ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
National Rifle Association Hides Facebook Page To Avoid Hosting Flame Wars
TechCrunch
To prevent uncivil debates from breaking out on its Facebook Page wall in the wake of the tragic shooting in Newtown, Conn., the National Rifle Association has unpublished its Facebook Page, presumably temporarily. The NRA hasn't confirmed that it ...
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TechCrunch
Download all your tweets (and Google and Facebook data)
ITworld.com
December 17, 2012, 11:41 AM — Twitter has started rolling out the option for users to download their Twitter archive. That file will contain all your tweets up until the time you download it, arranged chronologically and searchable. This "data ...
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How many friends do you have on Facebook? Researchers reveal what the ...
Daily Mail
... say the 'perfect' number of friends actually depends on several socioeconomic factors, and varies from country to country. Researchers believe that the number of Facebook friends you have can reveal you social status, and how often you move home.
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Daily Mail
Facebook Chat: Talk Tech With Mashable's Christina Warren
Mashable
The holidays have arrived, which probably means that many of you are in panic mode as you try to figure out the best gifts to get your friends and family. Or perhaps you're still indecisive about what to put on your own holiday wish list. Whatever the ...
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The Twitter/Facebook Rivalry Is Here to Stay -- Daily Intelligencer
New York Magazine
Bilton — who is working on a book about Twitter and is presumably getting leaks from the top of the company — brought us new details of Twitter's failed bid to acquire Instagram before it was sold to Facebook for $1 billion. Instagram founder Kevin ...
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New York Magazine

Blogs13 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook to Launch Its Own Snapchat Competitor App - Mike Isaac ...
By Mike Isaac
Facebook-MessengerLarge Facebook is currently testing its own built-in-house version of a "Snapchat-like" application, a messaging app that allows users to send impermanent photo messages to one another, according to sources familiar ...
AllThingsD
Facebook Nearby helps you discover your friends' hangouts, view ...
By Zach Honig
You\'ve probably managed to track down another app or two that accomplishes the same, or maybe you have no interest in a ratings-driven discovery platform.
Engadget
Facebook Is Cloning Snapchat, The App That's Obviously For ...
By Megan Rose Dickey
According to Isaac's sources, it will be a stand-alone app separate from Facebook's main app that will work very similarly to Snapchat. Snapchat is the mobile app that lets you send self-destructing photos and videos to friends. Since launching ...
SAI
Watch out, Google, Facebook, Apple. Amazon is coming for your ...
By Erin Griffith
Watch-out-l As noted by The Economist earlier this month, the "big four" of tech — Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple — are increasingly playing in each others' sandboxes. Google and Facebook compete on the social network battlefront.
PandoDaily
Facebook Gave Walmart A Mobile Ad Monopoly - Business Insider
By Jim Edwards
If you were wondering why you only saw ads for Walmart on Facebook's mobile app over the Black Friday weekend, here's the answer: Walmart pre-purchased a "road block" of 50 million Facebook mobile ads on the day after Thanksgiving, ...
Business Insider
Facebook Launches Nearby - Business Insider
By Owen Thomas
Where Yelp, for example, knows that nearby restaurants have tacos on the menu based on user reviews and other data, and can serve them up when you search for "tacos," Facebook's Nearby doesn't pick up on that kind of information, ...
Business Insider
Facebook Gets Into Local Search With "Facebook Nearby" For iOS ...
By Greg Sterling
As of today, you can count Facebook as a potentially significant new competitor in local search -- on mobile devices. The company is updating the "Nearby"
Search Engine Land: News & Info...
Israeli Embassy Deletes 'Christmas Thought' Attacking Palestinians ...
By By ROBERT MACKEY
A "Christmas thought" posted on an Israeli Embassy Facebook page on Monday said that if Jesus lived in the modern world he would "probably end up being lynched in Bethlehem by hostile Palestinians."
The Lede
Report: Facebook Testing Snapchat-Like Photo Messaging App ...
By David Cohen
Facebook is currently testing another stand-alone application for launch, which would join Facebook Messenger and Camera, and the new app, set to launch in the coming weeks, is similar to real-time picture chatting app Snapchat, according ...
AllFacebook
Facebook makes big push into local search with Nearby feature in ...
By Brittany Darwell
Facebook today begins a rollout of Nearby, a new local search and discovery feature in its iOS and Android apps. Nearby used to be a feed of friend's check-ins, but now it will enable users to search for specific places, browse categories or ...
Inside Facebook
Facebook joins the local discovery and sharing game with updated ...
By Elyse Betters
Facebook just announced an update to Facebook for iOS and Android that helps users discover new places their friends like. The latest version of the popular app features a refreshed Nearby tab, which, according to a post on the Facebook ...
9to5Mac
NRA leaves Facebook after school shootings | JIMROMENESKO.COM
By Jim
NRA leaves Facebook after school shootings. nra1. December 13: NRA announces it has 1.7 million Likes on Facebook. December 16: NRA deactivates its Facebook page after the Sandy Hook School shootings.
JIMROMENESKO.COM
Facebook Working on Snapchat-Like App for Secret Agents ...
By Josh Wolford
Facebook is making another move to assert itself into the private messaging space, as the company is reportedly working on a standalone app that takes its cues from another popular messaging app called Snapchat. Snapchat allows users to ...
Top News - WebProNews

Web3 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook Studio :: Blog | New ways for people to discover your ...
Local businesses have always relied on word-of-mouth recommendations to gain new customers and grow their sales. Whether they're a new restaurant in the ...
www.facebook-studio.com/.../new-ways-for-people-to-discove...
Facebook Stories - Check-Ins
1. Times Square, New York 2. Disneyland, California 3. AT&T Park, California 4. Yankee Stadium, New York 5. Rangers Ballpark, Texas 6. Fenway Park ...
www.facebookstories.com/stories/3868/check-ins
News orgs circulate Facebook profile, photos of man who wasn't the ...
Standing for journalism, strengthening democracy | Journalism training, media news & how to's.
www.poynter.org/.../news-orgs-circulate-facebook-profile-of-t...


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