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Facebook Poke App: Self-Destructing Messages
ABC News
Sometimes, for some people, a text message can just be too permanent. It's for those times and those people that Facebook has put out its new Poke app. The standalone app for the iPhone lets you log in with your Facebook account and message or "poke" a ...
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ABC News
Facebook Knows What's Not Cool; Can it Figure Out What Is?
Forbes
There's a now legendary scene in The Social Network where Justin Timberlake, as Sean Parker, is wowing a really young Mark Zuckerberg with his bit about how "a million dollars isn't cool." With an extraordinary but tumultuous 2012 winding down for ...
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Facebook tests fees for out-of-network messaging
CNN
The test, which will only be available to a "small number of people" in the United States, is Facebook's response to a common user complaint: that important messages are getting lost in the social network's spam filter. Currently, Facebook delivers ...
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Facebook's Timeline Redesign: Listening, Watching Your 'Likes'
ABC News (blog)
Until now, Facebook's built-in subsections (the ones you get without having installed any apps) have included Photos, Friends, Likes, Notes, Map and Events. Now it appears that Movies, Music, Books and TV Shows will be joining the lineup. (Some of ...
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ABC News (blog)
How Facebook Gifts Change Our Social Sharing Choices
Wired
Facebook Gifts rolled out after a two-month beta last week, seamlessly melding social with shopping. Not to be outdone, Amazon recently released its Friends and Family Gifting option with the same kind of social gifting visibility. For Facebook ...
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Wired
Facebook, Google dip their toes in sale of physical goods
San Jose Mercury News
Google (GOOG) and Facebook made their names by helping people find information or friends online. But in recent weeks the two rivals have made some surprising moves in a different direction -- the business of selling and delivering goods. Facebook is ...
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Facebook Will Let People You Don't Know Message Your Inbox For $1
ABC News
If you start noticing a few more messages in your Facebook inbox in the coming weeks from people you don't know, here's why. Facebook announced Thursday that it is testing a new option to charge users a one-time fee of $1 to send a message to another ...
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ABC News
The IPO Class Of 2013: No Facebook, But Plenty Of Primed Prospects
Forbes
Some years are defined by a single IPO. One offering that, by dint of its size, significance or success, comes to stand as the icon of an entire year's worth of debuts. Facebook was that IPO in 2012, just like General Motors was in 2010, and it had ...
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Forbes
Facebook rolling out new privacy layout
Washington Post
Users will now see a "privacy shortcut" menu at the top of every Facebook page that give answers to three basic questions: who can see users' posts, who can contact a specific user and information on how to block individual users on the site. Loading.
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Facebook Launches Snapchat Competitor "Poke", An iOS App For Sending ...
TechCrunch
Facebook has just announced its newest standalone app called "Poke" which lets people send photos, videos, pokes, or text Facebook messages to their friends that expire after a few seconds. The launch confirms AllThingsD's report from earlier this month.
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TechCrunch
Facebook quietly tests new Timeline design
CNET
That's not all Facebook is doing. According to Facebook blog InsideFacebook, the social network lets users drag and drop photos into their publisher box -- the space in which users post photos and updates. In addition, users can drag and drop multiple ...
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Facebook Rolls Out Poke App
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The release of the Poke app comes as Facebook becomes more aggressive in releasing standalone mobile applications to compete with young startups. Several weeks ago, the social network rolled out a new chat messenger service that only requires a ...
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Facebook tests $1 fee for messages to non-friends
CBS News
Launched in 2011, the "other" folder is where Facebook routes messages it deems less relevant. Not quite spam, these include messages from people you most likely don't know, based on Facebook's reading of your social connections. Many users ignore ...
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How Facebook's paid-message plan could backfire
CBS Moneywatch
(MoneyWatch). Is Facebook (FB) committing another gaffe? The company is drawing criticism for its plan to allow businesses, along with total strangers, to pay to send messages to users of the social network, even if there is no existing relationship ...
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This Is How Facebook Tried to Make Money Off You
Mashable
Facebook has been under immense pressure from investors to come up with ways to monetize, which has led to a fundamental shift in how it operates. When the company first filed to go public in February, CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated very clearly that ...
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Facebook Tests $1 Fee to Message 'Non-Friends'
ABC News
Transcript for Facebook Tests $1 Fee to Message 'Non-Friends'. -- FaceBook is trying to squeeze more profits from its users in a new move that some are calling downright anti social world's biggest social media site is rolling out a task. It is ...
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What If Facebook Were Free?
Forbes
In September 2011 a rumor caught wind on Facebook that the popular social network was going to start charging users to continue using Facebook. In response, the company posted a short update on its official page that "We have no plans to charge for ...
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Facebook's new Poke app sends self-destructing messages
NBCNews.com (blog)
We've heard rumors that Facebook's working on an app which will allow you to send messages that'll self-destruct after being viewed — and on Friday the social network confirmed the whispers. The app's called Poke and it is now available to iOS users.
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Facebook's $1 messages: One more way to get your credit card
CNET
This latest money-making effort comes with a revamp of its popular Messages service -- that part of Facebook through which you can message/e-mail your "friends" and, in fact, those who aren't your friends. What's changing -- and a spokesman describes ...
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Biz Break: 'Fiscal cliff' uncertainty hurts Wall Street, Facebook keeps making ...
San Jose Mercury News
Today: Wall Street takes a hit from politicians' inability to find "fiscal cliff" compromise, which endangers improving economy; Facebook introduces new messaging app, Instagram rolls back changes. As 'fiscal cliff' talks turn sour, investors punish ...
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Facebook's Paid Messages Might Not be a Terrible Idea
Forbes
Facebook is selling this as a service for the sender – it allows you to make sure your message goes to the actual inbox rather than the "other" folder. It's also selling it as a spam reduction tool, saying that researchers have said that "imposing a ...
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Facebook's about-face over Instagram (week in review)
CNET
It didn't take Facebook long to backtrack over controversial policy changes it intended to make regarding its photo-sharing app Instagram. A public backlash was ignited by Instagram stating that had it the perpetual right to sell users' photographs ...
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Lawyers in $20 Million Facebook Accord Seek $7.7 Million
Bloomberg
California attorneys Robert Arns and Jonathan Jaffe, who represented five Facebook users suing over the free service's practice of using subscribers' names without their permission to advertise products in its "Sponsored Stories," said the fee was fair ...
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Classical Musicians Spat on Facebook
Huffington Post (blog)
Facebook has become a great tool for artists and famous people to keep in touch with their fans, but now classical musicians are having a public spat on it too. With lots of caps lock, mudslinging and fans and friends joining in on the fray, there's no ...
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John Liu Is Wondering Whether a Certain Facebook Banker Should Give His ...
Betabeat
One person, Massachusetts securities regulator William F. Galvin, asked after the role Morgan Stanley played in managing the distribution of information in the weeks leading up to Facebook's May IPO, ultimately determining that a certain senior ...
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Facebook Introduces New, Uber-Simple Privacy Controls
Lifehacker
Facebook Introduces New, Uber-Simple Privacy Controls Facebook started rolling out a big change in the way it handles privacy today. Now, your settings are just a click or two away, and are easier to understand than ever, ensuring you have complete ...
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Facebook pregnancy adverts: we all know the deal
Telegraph.co.uk
I understand that Freegard and others might be a tad bemused by Facebook's change of heart – as it originally said it wouldn't use such information to flog ads when it added the ability for members to list unborn babies as family members as family ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Facebook's $1 Messages; Google Play's Big Year; Apple Patent Rejected
PC Magazine
Facebook is testing a feature that will let select users pay $1 to send messages to people with whom they have no connection on the social network. Facebook said the option will only be presented to a "small number" of users in the U.S. at this point ...
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Agent suspended for Facebook insults
FOXSports.com
FIFA has suspended a players' agent for two months for making insulting comments on his Facebook page. FIFA says the case of Brazilian agent Paulo Teixeira is the governing body's first disciplinary action in which ''a member of the football family has ...
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Blogs14 new results for Facebook
 
Facebook Confirms Snapchat Competitor -- Launching Poke iPhone ...
By Kara Swisher
Facebook said today that it was launching Poke, an app for the Apple iPhone that AllThingsD.com previously reported was poised to be released to rival the popular Snapchat. Facebook's new app to send impermanent messages is ...
AllThingsD
Facebook's Poke Sends Expiring Messages
By Matthew Panzarino
Facebook has just announced a new app called Poke, which has a Snapchat-like feature that allows users to send private messages that expire after 1, 3, 5 or 10 seconds. Snapchat, a hugely popular messaging app, features a similar ...
The Next Web
Facebook Launches its Own Version of Snapchat, Called Poke ...
By Juli Clover
When Snapchat launched a video update last week, AllThingsD reported that Facebook was planning on releasing its own photo and video sharing app to...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...
Facebook now charging some users to send messages — RT
By RT
Facebook has begun testing a pilot program where users have to pay a fee for each message they want to send over the social networking site.
News RSS : Today
Facebook's New Poke App - Business Insider
By Kevin Smith
Since we were already signed into our Facebook account on our iPhone, the app recognized Of course the app wants to send you push notifications so you can stay on top When you first enter the app it lets you know how everything works.
SAI
Facebook's New Privacy Controls Rolling Out Soon - The Consumerist
By Mary Beth Quirk
There are plenty of times we're critical of Facebook — the $1 message from strangers plan, launching auto-play ads — but with its new privacy controls it's actually kinda sorta seems like the social network is (dare we say it?) making things ...
The Consumerist
Facebook releases standalone Poke app for iPhone with Snapchat ...
By Brittany Darwell
Facebook today released Poke, a standalone app for iPhone that allows users to use its famous Poke feature or send messages, photos or video to their friends for a designated period of time. Messages expire after a specific time users set, ...
Inside Facebook
Facebook takes on Snapchat with new Poke messaging app | The ...
By Adi Robertson
Facebook has just announced Poke, a new app that will let users send messages, photos, or videos that disappear after up to ten seconds. That's very similar to Snapchat, a self-destructing photo...
The Verge - All Posts
Facebook launches its free Snapchat rip-off: Poke | 9to5Mac
By Mark Gurman
Facebook has just launched an app to compete with Snapchat, Poke. Poke lets you "Poke" friends with a message, photo, or video. Like Snapchat, you can choose how long your friend can view your Poke. Also like Snapchat, your friends ...
9to5Mac
Facebook on the Way to Change Your Timeline Again | Social ...
By Mohammed Anzil
Mark Zuckerberg Facebook is about to change your profile timeline again. Reports says that a new look has shown up for a limited number of users already. Its going to hit a larger crowd soon.
Social Media Today - The world's...
New Facebook Messages | The Mary Sue
By Susana Polo
Facebook Messages are a seemingly simple offering by the social media giant that the company still manages to make somehow complicated. Messages, mobile messages, Facebook email, the Other folder... You mean, you don't know there's ...
The Mary Sue
New Facebook Poke app now available in the App Store
By Cody Lee
Facebook is building up quite the app library on Apple's mobile platform. There's the official app, and then there's several subsidiaries like Camera, Pages,
iDownloadBlog.com
Facebook releases Poke app to take on Snapchat - SlashGear
By Craig Lloyd
Just a few short days ago, we heard rumors of a possible Snapchat clone from Facebook was in the works. Not surprisingly, Facebook is indeed releasing their own.
SlashGear
Facebook $1 Fee Allows Messages to Non-Friends' Inboxes - The ...
By Free Britney
Facebook is trying out a $1 fee program to allow you to message non-friends. Read on for more details now!
The Hollywood Gossip

Web2 new results for Facebook
 
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Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter for Facebook's IPO, will pay a $5 million fine to Massachusetts to settle charges that its bankers improperly influenced its ...
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